Cyfnodau Preswyl
Jane Phillips AwardResidency
22 Ebrill - 31 Mawrth 2014
To mentor, nurture and support the professional artistic growth of young, emerging artists across the Visual and Applied Arts
www.janephillipsaward.co.uk | mail@janephillipsaward.co.uk
2013 Award Applications released on 22 April 2013
2013 Residency located at Elysium Artspace Studios, Mansel Street Swansea
Recipient of the Jane Phillips Award 2011: Laura Edmunds (Nominated by Linda Nottingham)
2011 Award located at Swansea Studios, 7 Gloucester Place
The Jane Phillips Award was launched at Mission Gallery on Friday 5th August by Nathalie Camus, Senior Applied Arts Officer, The Arts Council of Wales. It was set up in 2011 as a memorial to Jane Phillips (1957 - 2011) Mission Gallery's first Director. The Jane Phillips Award is administered by Mission Gallery
The Award is intended as a memorial to Jane and a legacy to her passion for mentoring and nurturing talent, consistently supporting young, emerging artists across the Visual and Applied Arts inWalesand beyond. It seeks to award and support one artist every two years, commencing November 2011.
The Jane Phillips Award seeks nominations for ambitious artists across the Visual and Applied Arts at the early stages of their career, who are producing work of high quality, have a clear vision and a strong commitment to career development. Candidates must be nominated for the Award by a tutor, employer or other professional and fulfill the criteria that includes; living in Wales, aged between 18-30 years and demonstrate an outstanding ability or potential in either the Visual or Applied Arts.
A host of respected mentors and talent-spotters across the Visual and Applied Arts will assist at both the assessment and development stage of each application. Each year of the Award there will be a guest selector; a respected professional working within the arts.
Shortlisted Artists 2011
Laura Edmunds (Nominated by Linda Nottingham)
Thomas Goddard (Nomintaed by Tiff Oben)
Samuel Hasler (Nominated by Anthony Shapland)
Dan Mccabe (Nominated by Jonathan Anderson)
Sean Puleston (Nominated by Paul Emmanuel)
Erin Rickard (Nominated by Pete Telfer)
Selection Committee 2011
Claire Densham | Family of Jane Phillips
Dr. Russ Harris | Jane Phillips Award Patron & Representative of the Friends of Mission Gallery
Keith Bayliss | Chairman of the Jane Phillips Award & Member of Mission Gallery Board of Directors
Amanda Roderick | Director of Mission Gallery & Jane Phillips Award Committee Member
Hannah Kelly | Gallery Development Officer, Mission Gallery & Jane Phillips Award Committee Member
Guest Selector 2011 | Karen MacKinnon, Exhibitions Officer,Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
About Jane Phillips
Jane Phillips was Mission Gallery's Director from 2003-2011. She passed away on 6th February 2011 after a long battle with cancer. Jane dedicated her life and career to Mission Gallery and worked on a voluntary basis for over 20 years as it's Gallery Co-ordinator. After training as a painter at Central School of Art in the late Seventies, Jane returned toSwansea where she worked from her studio inGloucester Place, opposite Mission Gallery. Jane's most prolific period was during the early eighties, soon after she graduated, when she produced large scale canvases. These colourful, abstract paintings, serve as a fitting tribute to, and celebration of, Jane's creativity and talent.
"Jane's achievements and her success at Mission Gallery were considerable: her dedication and drive merged seamlessly with her informed artistic vision, her enthusiasm was infectious, always coloured by a warm sense of humour and her spirit, which fought for the rights of so many artists, came directly from her belief in art and her love of life".
Jenni Spencer Davies
Curator,Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea
