The John Ruskin Prize 2014 - Catalogue of Works

SHORTLISTED ARTISTS CATALOGUE OF WORKS THEBIGDRAW.ORG/RUSKINPRIZE #RUSKINPRIZE

Artwork: Mandy Payne

About The John Ruskin Prize In 2012 the Guild of St George, the charity founded by Ruskin in 1871 renewed its links with the Campaign for Drawing (the Campaign was launched in 2000 under the Guild’s auspices, becoming an independent arts education charity in 2006) to inaugurate The John Ruskin Prize open to all artists over 18 working in the UK. It aims to uphold Ruskin’s belief that drawing helps us see the world more clearly and be more aware of its fragility. The Prize allows us to promote and give exposure to the work of emerging artists using a wide range of media and techniques. The winning artist is awarded a cash prize to help further their practice and all shortlisted artists are offered a place in an exhibition at a high profile public regional gallery or museum. The prize offers artists a unique opportunity to join the ranks of earlier well-known visual commentators on the state of the nation.

The 2nd John Ruskin Prize: Recording Britain Now, was shown in Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery for five months accompanying the V&A tour of Recording Britain. In November 2014 it had a second showing at London’s Trinity Buoy Wharf.

The John Ruskin Prize 2014: Selection panel Sue Grayson Ford ( Director, Campaign for Drawing) Kirstie Hamilton (Head of Exhibitions & Display, Museums Sheffield) Laura Oldfield Ford (Artist) Gill Saunders (Senior Curator of Prints, V&A Museum) Clive Wilmer (Master, Guild of St George)

The John Ruskin Prize 2014: Recording Britain Now shortlist exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield Right: Artwork by John Ruskin Prize 2014 winner, Maggie Hargreaves

The John Ruskin Prize 2014 Shortlisted Artists Anny Evason Alex Hamilton Ben Lingard Colin Maxwell Catherine Sutcliffe-Fuller Chris Shaw Hughes Dr Dolores de Sade Darren Reid Evy Jokhova Gillian Swan Hannah Brown Ian Chamberlain Jennifer Morgan Michael Cox Maggie Hargreaves (Winner) Mandy Payne (Runner-up) Philip Sanderson Ros Ford Rebecca Upton Roanna Wells Sonia Stanyard Sarah Taylor- Silverwood Sean Williams

The selection panel considered 600 entries before agreeing on the final 23, which offered an engaging mix of materials, techniques and topical commentary, exploring urban sprawl, dereliction and the endangered British countryside.

The Recording Britain Now exhibition comprising over 40 artworks by the 23 selected artists was first shown at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery and the winner was announced at the private view. Former scientist and recent art graduate, Maggie Hargreaves, was awarded the £1,000 prize for two huge drawings revealing nature’s revenge on man’s despoliation of the countryside. Runner-up Mandy Payne’s evocative reliefs of Sheffield’s once notorious Park Hill Estate were created by spray painting concrete slabs salvaged from the estate’s current redevelopment.

While John Ruskin would surely approve the artists’ observational powers, he would also be dismayed by what they tell us about the state of Britain’s environment.

Sue Grayson Ford, Director, Campaign for Drawing

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ANNY EVASON ‘Dungeness Landmarks I’ (2014) Graphite on Saunders Paper, 120 x 150cm SOLD www.annyevason.co.uk

ANNY EVASON ‘Dungeness Landmarks I’ (2014) Graphite on Saunders Paper, 120 x 150cm £3600 View in Shop www.annyevason.co.uk

ALEX HAMILTON ‘Masters 5’ (2008) Pen and ink, pencil, gouache, pastel pit pen, airbrush photocopy on watercolour paper 85 x 118cm www.patrickheide.com

BEN LINGARD ‘Ghosts XII’ (2013) Ink relief and watercolour.

40 x 40cm £400 View in shop www.benlingard.net

BEN LINGARD ‘At Night VII’ (2012) Ink relief and watercolour.

40 x 40cm SOLD www.benlingard.net

COLIN MAXWELL ‘Redundant Rolls Royce Factory’ (2013) Pencil on paper. 46 x 54cm SOLD

CATHERINE SUTCLIFFEFULLER ‘TPO (tree preservation order and consumer growth’ (2013).

24.5 x 24.5cm £600 View in shop www.catherinesutcliffefuller.co.uk

CATHERINE SUTCLIFFE-FULLER ‘Ponds for Newts’ (2014) Laser cut relief, etching and linocut 20cm x 35cm £1200 View in shop www.catherinesutcliffe-fuller.co.uk

CATHERINE SUTCLIFFE-FULLER ‘Wide Expanse with 300 Newts’ (2014) Etching and linocut 20cm x 35cm £900 View in shop www.catherinesutcliffe-fuller.co.uk

CHRIS SHAW HUGHES 窶連ll things Being Equal I (Eltham 1999), Carbon Drawing on Paper 42x60cm (NFS) www.chris-shaw-hughes.com

CHRIS SHAW HUGHES 窶連ll things Being Equal II (Eltham 1999), Carbon Drawing on Paper 42x60cm (NFS) www.chris-shaw-hughes.com

DR DOLORES DE SADE ‘Interesting Concrete Formations of the Hoo Pennisula, Kent’ (2013) 9 x 17 x 4cm Concertina hand bound book, hand coloured etchings. £720 View in Shop www.doloresdesade.com

DARREN REID ‘Low Winter Sun’ (2014) Acrylic on Canvas 86 x 86cm SOLD www.darrenreid.co.uk

EVY JOKHOVA ‘Plot 82’ (2011) Artist Book, lithography and letter press (edition) 42 x 14cm £80 www.evyjokhova.co.uk

GILLIAN SWAN ‘The Future is Brightly Coloured’ (2014) Mixed media (card, plaster of paris, house paint). 43 x 76cm (NFS)

HANNAH BROWN ‘Near Woolfardisworthy 2’ (2014) Oil paint on plywood and oak 36 x 46cm £5400 View in shop www.hannahbrown.info

IAN CHAMBERLAIN ‘Fort III’ (2013) Etching 75 x 65cm £495 View in shop www.ianchamberlainartist.blogspot.co.uk

IAN CHAMBERLAIN ‘Fort I’ (2013) Etching 75 x 64cm £495 View in shop www.ianchamberlainartist.blogspot.co.uk

JENNIFER MORGAN ‘Student Finance Letters, copied no. 2’ (2014) Embroidery 29 x 21cm SOLD

JENNIFER MORGAN ‘Student Finance Letters, copied no. 1’ (2013) Embroidery 29 x 21cm SOLD

JENNIFER MORGAN ‘Sheffield Hallam University, Assesment Sheet’ (2014) Embroidery 29 x 21cm SOLD

MICHAEL COX ‘Stokes Croft’ (2014) Oil on canvas 152 x 101cm £500

John Ruskin Prizewinner 2014 MAGGIE HARGREAVES ‘ Changing Space II’ (2008) Charcoal on paper 150 x 220cm £1200 View in shop

John Ruskin Prizewinner 2014 (Winning artwork) MAGGIE HARGREAVES ‘ Slowly Creeping’ (2011) Charcoal on paper 150 x 220cm SOLD

John Ruskin Prize 2014 Runner up MANDY PAYNE ‘Past Imperfect’ (2014) Aerosol spray paint on concrete 20 x 20 x 3cm SOLD www.mandypayneart.co.uk

John Ruskin Prize 2014 Runner up MANDY PAYNE ‘Brutal’ (2014) Aerosol spray paint on concrete 35 x 39 x 3cm SOLD www.mandypayneart.co.uk

John Ruskin Prize 2014 Runner up MANDY PAYNE ‘All That Remains’ (2013) Aerosol spray paint on concrete 31 x 21 x 3.5cm SOLD Acquired by The Ruskin Collection held at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield. www.mandypayneart.co.uk

PHILIP SANDERSON ‘Nowhere’ (2010) Hand woven tapestry 57 x 163cm £9,900 View in shop

ROS FORD ‘Parcel Force, Bristol’ (2013) Etching and aquatint 69 x 89cm £795 View in shop www.ros-ford.co.uk

ROS FORD ‘The Vetch, study IVl’ (2013) Photopolymer intaglio print 49 x 57.5cm £655 View in shop www.ros-ford.co.uk

REBECCA UPTON ‘M19 1GL -1950s’ (2013) Typewriter drawing 8 x 8cm £50 (Set of 3 £150)

REBECCA UPTON ‘M19 1GL - 1997’ (2013) Typewriter drawing 8 x 7cm £50 (Set of 3 £150)

REBECCA UPTON ‘M19 1GL – 2005’ (2013) Typewriter drawing 9 x 8cm £50 (Set of 3 £150)

ROANNA WELLS ‘Diamond Jubilee, Buckingham Palace 2012’ (2014) Hand embroidery on wool 110 x 140cm £1,800 View in shop

SONIA STANYARD ‘Pylon D602-F’ Oil on Canvas 120 x 120cm £4,500 View in shop www.soniastanyard.co.uk

SONIA STANYARD ‘Turn Left’ Oil on Canvas 120 x 120cm www.soniastanyard.co.uk

SARAH TAYLOR SILVERWOOD ‘Flats on the Belgrave Interchange’ Pencil on various papers 23 x 20 cm £1,500 View in shop www.sarahsilverwood.com

SARAH TAYLOR SILVERWOOD ‘Digbeth’ (2012) Ink, pencil and oil paint on various papers 40 x 62cm £3,000 View in shop www.sarahsilverwood.com

SARAH TAYLOR SILVERWOOD ‘The Cube’ (2012) Ink and chalk on various papers 32 x 21 cm £1,500 View in shop www.sarahsilverwood.com

SEAN WILLIAMS ‘It Haunts it’ (2013) Acrylic on board 88 x 61 x 2cm £1800

About the Campaign for Drawing and The Big Draw The Campaign for Drawing is an independent charity which raises the profile of drawing as a tool for thought, creativity, social and cultural engagement. The Campaign for Drawing was launched in 2000 by the Guild of St George, a small charity founded by John Ruskin, whose writings on art, architecture, natural history, social and economic Issues helped to shape Victorian cultural life. The Campaign for Drawing (now an independent arts education charity) is behind the annual Big Draw, a festival of over 1500 mainly free events across the world designed to get everyone drawing. This year the world's biggest drawing festival is celebrating its 15th anniversary with events in over twenty countries.

“ Victorian artist, critic, writer and social reformer John Ruskin had a saying: ‘the greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something… To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one’. The John Ruskin Prize asks exactly this of its entrants; to see and to absorb a theme".

Daniel Dylan Wray on ‘Recording Britain Now: The 2nd John Ruskin Prize, Creative Tourist, 11 August 2014