The Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize 2024
APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED.
Awarded for the best visual arts response on the theme of ‘Language’.
Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize
Congratulations to the winning artists:
Ella Krispel
Jay Rechsteiner
Shortlist
Congratulations to the following artists:
Aylin Kuryel
Emily Lazerwitz
Itamar Liebergall
Olana Light
Yasin Mahdi Zadeh
Rebecca Meneghini
Amina Pagliari
Chantel Pinzi
Maryam Rajabzadeh
Jay Rechsteiner
Stevie Ronnie
Sara Sasani
Andrea Sbra Perego
Heidi Stokes
Mariana Szteinmarder
Sadaf Taghian
Olga Tikhonova
Zhanna Tulendi
Cheuk Yan Cherry Tung
Peter Vance
Tanvi Waghela
Michael Walrond
Conrado Zanotto
Ksenia Zhadobina
Zoey Zhao
Ateş Alpar
Rouba AlSayed
Dorell Ben
Christian Saint M Boakye
Emily Brockington
Wyatt Carson
Алевтина Сеник
Greg Crowhurst
Lewis Davidson
Ben Davies
Michelle Deignan
Anna Diessner
Ayana Gordon
Ava Grauls
Lou Hamilton
Breech Asher Harani
Julia Heurling
Oliver Hurst
柒七 chichi Iris
Barney Jobson
Anique Jordan
Аслан Капаров
Nazli Kaya
Maria Kozlitina
Ella Krispel
Prizes:
The winner and runners-up will receive cash prizes and will be invited to attend our annual symposium. We will offer up to £500 travel expenses to help with travel to the event and meals and accommodation during the symposium dates are also covered.
The symposium will take place from Sat 6th - Tue 9th July 2024 in Tuscany, Italy.
First place: £3,000
Second place: £1,000
Third place: £1,000
Rules:
Open to all nationalities.
Applicants must be aged 18 or above at the time of entry.
All entries must be written in English.
If your work is from a larger collection, please choose the single image that best displays the potential of your collection. Entries who submit more than one image may be disqualified at the judge’s discretion.
All media are permitted, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation, stating media, date, and, where relevant, size. Videos should be no more than 8 minutes long.
Images or artworks generated by artificial intelligence (AI) image generators are not eligible to enter this prize.
Travel expenses can be used for economy travel costs only and are not exchangeable for cash, any leftover travel budget will not be redeemed as cash.
Travel expenses can be used for transport only, and can not be used towards accommodation outside of the dates of our symposium.
Submissions will be judged anonymously, so please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere on your work.
Due to the volume of applications, the judge’s decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into following the results.
Key dates:
Applications open: 1st January 2024
Applications close: 1st March 2024 at 23:59 (UK time)
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*Please note: we reserve the right to change any aspect of our prizes at any point during the submission or judging process, or to not award a prize if we choose.
Judges
Sue Grayson Ford - MBE has enjoyed a 40 year career in arts administration since founding and directing the Serpentine Gallery as a platform for emerging artists. Later, she expanded the programme with exhibitions of international artists such as Giacometti, Saul Steinberg, De Kooning and Henry Moore. She has been Sculpture Director for the Liverpool International Garden Festival, Exhibitions Director at Manchester’s Cornerhouse, Director of Wakefield’s Centenary Festival and of London’s Photographers’ Gallery. Sue initiated the Campaign for Drawing, and ensured that it’s flagship, The Big Draw, grew into an international phenomenon with over 1000 events annually across the UK and 20 other countries.
Julian Spalding - was a director of art galleries for Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow. He established the Ruskin Gallery, the St Mungo Museum of Religious Art and Life, the Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow and the Campaign for Drawing. His many books include The Poetic Museum, The Eclipse of Art, The Art of Wonder (winner of the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize 2006), Con Art, The Best Art You've Never Seen, Realisation and, with Raymond Tallis, Summers of Discontent.
Previous winners
Please click on the artists name to visit their website and find out more.
2023 - Flourishing
Winner
:
Tara Abdullah
Tara Abdulla is an artist from Sulaimaniah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. She uses her art to raise awareness and promote resistance towards violence against women and environmental conservation. Her projects "The Feminine Project" and "The Sound Project" aim to shed light on the harsh realities faced by women in her region and encourage non-violent resistance. As an independent artist and freelancer, she uses a range of mediums, including paintings, installations, performances, sculptures, videos, and designs, to deliver her messages.
You can find out more at: https://www.taraabdulla.com/
Second Place
:
Jian Luo
Jian Luo, a Chinese photographer. His works have been exhibited in China, France, Italy, Switzerland and remained in the permanent collection in MUSEC Museum and in Swatch Art Peace Hotel Collection. Jian Luo's work focuses on the lives of people with a geopolitical background. He seeks to uncover the underlying connections between people and modern society and present them through his lens. Although it may take time to confirm, he believes that there is a certain truth that exists both inside and outside of the lens.
Third Place
: Fang Zhou
Fang Zhou is an artist from Wuhan, now working and living in Beijing, China. His work has been exhibited at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the 1st Chengdu International photography Festival, CAFA Graduation Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, the Go to Society, Han Art Museum, Wuhan, "Tiny rays converge into a sun" Photography Invitational Exhibition of universities in the Asia-Pacific region, Xi University of Technology, Shenyang International Localized Image Festival, the 2nd QuanzhouHuangguang) International Image Biennial, the Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions, United Kingdom, the Student World Impact Film Festival, United States, Seoul Indie-AniFest, Korea, 9:16 Vertical Film Fest, Peru, Mobile Film University, Colombia, SERIES WEB AWARDS, Peru and ICONA Animation Festival, Greece.
Honourable Mentions: Samira Alborzhouh, Zillah Bowes, Greg Crowhurst, Mostafa Saeidi, Öykü Tunaboyu
2022 - Freedom
Winner
: June Wong
June is a Hong Kong visual artist. She explores daily life and social issues through moving image and drawing. Images from a news broadcast, casual conversations overheard from her neighbors, and snippets of audio captured from a radio broadcast, all serve as the raw materials for her creations. She graduated in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Hong Kong Art School & RMIT University and received a Higher Diploma in Fine Art in 2014. Also, she obtained her Bachelor of Nursing in 2010.
Second Place
: Armin Amirian
Armin Amirian has contributed to more than 100 festivals and exhibitions throughout the years and had his last solo exhibition “hICEstory” (2021) and another one “A’ar” (2018). He’s received multiple international awards such as Award of Excellence from Fletcher Art Festival (USA 2020), Honorable Mention Award of Yeiser Art Center (USA 2020), Young Author Award of the 29th Spanish Railways Foundation Caminos de Hierro (2018), The Jury Prize of Fomenar (Spain 2017), two-time winner of the best Creative Look from “Image of The Year Festival” (Iran 2015, 2017). His works have been sold at exhibitions and auctions such as the Sotheby’s and are available in collections and foundations such as Ooshot (France), Spanish Railways Foundation, Fletcher H. Dyer (USA).
Honourable Mentions: Takehiro Nagaoka, Odur Ronald and Aleksandra Kulak
2021 - Untamed: On Civilisation and Wilderness
Winner: Angela Eames
Second Place: Aakriti Chandervanshi
Third Place: James Johnson-Perkins
2020 - On Forgiveness and Retribution
Winner: Shahrzad Farazi
Second Place: Kay Rufai
Third Place: Sally Roberts