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The Platform Graduate Award

The initiative is led by CVAN South East (Contemporary Visual Arts Network South East) and is currently a partnership between five galleries: Aspex Portsmouth, Modern Art Oxford, Phoenix Art Space in Brighton, Gallery 101 (University of Plymouth supported by Arts University Plymouth and Falmouth University), and Turner Contemporary in Margate. Following an exhibition and events programme across the participating galleries, an artist from each gallery is nominated for the award.

Platform focuses on artists in the first year after graduation; a critical time when the loss of the university support structure and financial pressures can test an artist’s dedication to their practice. For the participating galleries, this is a way to keep in touch with the most promising emerging practice, and with higher education institutions. More broadly, the scheme aims to stimulate artist networks outside of London and encourage artists to stay in the South East region.

Image: The Platform Graduate Award 2017 Announcement © photo Stu Allsopp. Guest selector, Artist Rosalind Nashashibi and Platform Graduate Award 2017 Winner Sophie Barber.

Platform Artists

Winner

Zahra Khanum

University of Plymouth

Arts University Plymouth/MIRROR

Zahra Khanum is a British-Bangladeshi multidisciplinary artist based in Birmingham and South Devon. Her work explores notions of nostalgia, third generational migrant histories, and the ocean to reciprocate these untold histories around belonging and travelling.

Using a variety of mediums to express her ideas, including textiles, video installations, short movies, oil paintings, and printmaking. These pieces are a reflection of her own dual-identity and attempt to capture the essence of her upbringing.

Zahra strives to create art that allows audiences to explore the complexities of our cultures and identities.

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Nominees

Leilani June Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Zahra Khanum University of Plymouth Arts University Plymouth Visit Website
George Marrington University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Sara Paowana University of Brighton Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Charlie Buurman-Davies University of the Creative Arts Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Karl Bailey University of Portsmouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Mia Bilbeisi UCA Farnham Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Mia Blake University of Portsmouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Harrison Jones Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Georgia Menear Solent University Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Rabia Raja Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Luke Wateridge Solent University Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Freya Watson UCA Farnham Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Ren Woolridge Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Sarah Catterall Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University) Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Helen Kohl Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Emelia Archer University of Brighton Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Saul Baraitser University of Brighton Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Bran Flakes University of Brighton Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Em Walker University of Brighton Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Freddie Anderson Falmouth University Arts University Plymouth/MIRROR Visit Website
Debbie Bunce Falmouth University Arts University Plymouth/MIRROR Visit Website
Georgina Croft University of Plymouth Arts University Plymouth/MIRROR Visit Website
Allie Dechow Arts University Plymouth Arts University Plymouth/MIRROR Visit Website
Charley Dyson Arts University Plymouth Arts University Plymouth/MIRROR Visit Website
Martin Foster University of Plymouth Arts University Plymouth/MIRROR Visit Website
Richie Johnson Arts University Plymouth Arts University Plymouth/MIRROR Visit Website
Annie Myhill Falmouth University Arts University Plymouth/MIRROR Visit Website
Cate Rogers Arts University Plymouth Arts University Plymouth/MIRROR Visit Website
Antonia Hazlewood UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Jessica Mills UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Winner

Ashanti Hare

Plymouth College of Art

Plymouth College of Art/MIRROR

Ashanti Hare explores the duality of life as both a human being and spiritual entity. Combining digital manipulation, folk craftsmanship and writing, Hare often explores the boundaries between cultural identity and spiritual entity through sensory experiences that include tactility, scent and moving image. Their ongoing research is motivated by underlying references to pop culture, witchcraft, literature and music.

Hare’s current research explores how colonial history, particularly in the South West, and cultural identity intersect. Spiritualism and folk practices serving as the foundation for research, Hare seeks to create a body of work that focuses on the intricacies of dual heritage, particularly how Caribbean and African spiritualism intertwines with British history.

Through the use of traditional craft practices such as textiles and ceramics, Hare creates tapestries and sculpture that retell Caribbean and African folklore, spellwork and history while reflecting popular culture specific to Black Britishness. Using the South West as the backdrop for this research, Hare seeks to invite new conversations around contemporary ideas and attitudes to spiritualism and occult practices within art spaces.

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Nominees

Zayd Menk UCA Farnham Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Lydia Freeman University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Anna Candlin University of Hertfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Tia Phillips Greater Brighton Metropolitan College Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Constandina Herodotou University of the Creative Arts, Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Besma Alwesmi Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Annabel Miller Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Sam Atherton UCA Farnham Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Amanda Berridge University of Chichester Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Amy Standing University of Chichester Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Shalom Nuhu University of Portsmouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Thaïs Verhasselt University of Portsmouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Erica Cannon Solent University, Southampton Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Beth Givens Solent University, Southampton Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Eleanor Brown Winchester School of Art Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Annabel Tennyson-Davies Winchester School of Art Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Anisa Riaz Murshed University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Chloe Smith University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Kyra-Sky Foster Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Liz Davies Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Neil Eastell University Centre Hastings Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Robin Lake University Centre Hastings Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Sue Bown Arts University Plymouth MIRROR / Arts University Plymouth Visit Website
Liam Brooks Arts University Plymouth MIRROR / Arts University Plymouth Visit Website
Joanna Haskins Arts University Plymouth MIRROR / Arts University Plymouth Visit Website
Karmin O’Brien Arts University Plymouth MIRROR / Arts University Plymouth Visit Website
Stella Olivier Arts University Plymouth MIRROR / Arts University Plymouth Visit Website
Hayley Barker University of Plymouth MIRROR / Arts University Plymouth Visit Website
Emma Davis University of Plymouth MIRROR / Arts University Plymouth Visit Website
Wiktoria Sikorska UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Sara Jabot UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Simone Swaine UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Winner

Ainoa Burgos Gonzalez

Brighton University

Phoenix Art Space

The solanum Tuberosum Banquet consist on a physical installation and a bilingual Potato Recipe Cookbook (printed and online formats). Areas of inquiry include a way of sharing during these times of isolation, personal space, the domestic space and the potato. The humble and historic potato opens the door for dialogue and reciprocity.

The Potato Recipe Cookbook, composed by the recipes collected on an Open Call, is the starting point of this artwork. The art installation represents the project in a physical dimension, consisting on a formal, round dining table containing full dinnerware, potato centrepiece and a circular floor base of soil. Each continent is represented by a recipe sourced during the project, which is printed in a ceramic plate.

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Nominees

Bevan Hill and Will Griffiths Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Him Ming Chan University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Laura Buckle University of Chichester Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Anna Marris Winchester School of Art, Southampton University Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Chealsie Wild Solent University, Southampton Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Conor Hallan University of Portsmouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Dan Webb University of Portsmouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Gabrielle Plommer Solent University, Southampton Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Jenny Andrews Winchester School of Art, Southampton University Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Julia Da Costa UCA Farnham Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Lily Tutty Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Lucy House Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Sophie Bazgier University of Chichester Aspex Portsmouth Visit Website
Jennifer Watts University of Herefordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Shannon Ryan University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Fetine Sel Tuzel University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Beth Simcock Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Nina Fisher Brighton University Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Anja Blau Brighton University Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Katherine Jane Weston Smith East Sussex College Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Harriet McMorrow-Purcell East Sussex College Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Ross Partleton MET Phoenix Art Space Visit Website

Winner

Louise Hall

University of Bournemouth

Aspex

Louise Hall is a UK based multidisciplinary artist, focusing on printmaking, sculpture and performance. She has recently exhibited in the ‘In Real Life’ exhibition at Hauser and Wirth Somerset. Louise’s work ‘13 Dead, Nothing Said’ translates the Black British experience of trauma through soft floppy structures. Investigating through materiality of fabric and language to investigate social issues within the UK and the BAME experience. The distinctive African wax print fabric is representative of blackness yet has a complicated colonial history. In Louise’s practice she communicates and unpicks the Black British experience and the diaspora, often challenging ideas of colonial history, narrative and the impact within the higher education.

system and UK society. The key use of non-violent imagery within the works represent violent traumatic events with ties to plantations, colonial history and transatlantic slave trade.

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Nominees

Khadija Niang University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Rachel Atkinson University of Brighton Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Racheal Ayodele University for the Creative Arts Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Evie Redwood Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Chloe Davies University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Daniel Martirossian University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Megan Georgia Smith Solent University, Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Kayleigh Pyner Solent University, Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Caitlin Jackson UCA Farnham Aspex Visit Website
Ellen Ball UCA Farnham Aspex Visit Website
Caitlin Holford University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Katie Novell University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Emma Siân Davies Winchester School of Art, Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Maryam Zahra Kazimi Winchester School of Art, Southampton Aspex Visit Website
James Scott Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Mihaela Man Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Khadija Niang University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Natalie Sired University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Charlotte Guérard University of Brighton Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Rachel Atkinson University of Brighton Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Ursula Vargas University of Brighton Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Jessica Davis East Sussex College, Hastings Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Leanne Jones-Starr East Sussex College, Hastings Phoenix Art Space Visit Website
Admire Ncube University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Bie Wright University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Despina Kaklamanou University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Poppy Gentlemen University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Racheal Ayodele University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Rosamond Boughton University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Samuel Vilanova University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Teddie Newton University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Winner

Imogen Marooney

Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

Aspex

Imogen is a printmaker and works with participatory performative workshops in which participants make paper objects using scrap paper, which she has screen-printed with images of objects made in previous workshops. Importantly, the work is ever recycled into itself as objects, and once made, can be continually re-made by many different participants. The manifesto and rules, which communicate how the workshop runs, are a continuation of what Imogen has been doing in the experimental writing group ‘Bad Poets’. Imogen also used her writing skills in the exhibition ‘Everyday Living, Without Everyday Tasks’ where she collaborated with the University of Southampton’s Stroke Rehabilitation Researchers, producing an edition of artists' books with her own poetry.

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Nominees

Natalie Andrews University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Sian Hookins University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Amy Richardson University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Jade Anthony Winchester School of Art - University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Jaz Bartlett University for the Creative Arts - UCA Farnham Aspex Visit Website
Sasha Damjanovic University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Gwen Datyner Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website
Tobias Gumbrill Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Rebecca Harte University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Connie London University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Sofia Popova Winchester School of Art - University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Mathew Scott Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website
Katherine Smith University for the Creative Arts - UCA Farnham Aspex Visit Website
Oliver Whitehead University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Jack Woolston Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Lana Fotheringham University of Hertfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Jan Harrington University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Kulsuma Monica Khatoon Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Grace Robertson Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Jordan Colbert University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Sara Jackson University for the Creative Arts - UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Wren Moat University for the Creative Arts - UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Winner

Josephine Rock

University for the Creative Arts - UCA Farnham

Aspex

Josephine Rock's interdisciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, film, performance, text, and photography. Her working methodology is research-led, like that of an investigative journalist, pursuing wide-ranging concerns from the amplification of power relations connecting the body and technology within online communities of ‘Doxy Spotters,’ to the co-option of mindfulness by the US army.
Exhibitions include Fully Mad And Completely Credible (Brewery Tap, Folkestone), When Our Lips Speak Together (James Hockey Gallery, Farnham) and Prefix is Post (Lewisham Arthouse, London). She has been shortlisted for the Woon Foundation Prize 2018.

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Nominees

Luke Dawes Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Godith Hawkins University of Hastings De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Ronan Porter University for the Creative Arts - UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Abbie Schug University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Carol Abell Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Kane Applegate Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website
Fiona Baanah-Jones Winchester School of Art - University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Simon Beasley University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Natasha Dalziel Winchester School of Art - University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Hannah Davies University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Rosie Gatford University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Rachel Mortlock Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Annie Murrells University for the Creative Arts - UCA Farnham Aspex Visit Website
Carl Tai Thompson University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
George Waring Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website
Tasneem Arif University of Brighton De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Katie Needham University of Brighton De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Oscar Yasamee University of Hastings De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Maddalena Zadra University of Brighton De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Bethany Holden University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Elizabeth Leonard University of Hertfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Travis O’Connor University of Hertfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Annie Le Santo Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Louise Povey University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Lalita Bailey University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Kuro D Black University for the Creative Arts - UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Kaushikee Gupta University for the Creative Arts - UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Holly Jones Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Little-Blood University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Ty Locke University for the Creative Arts - UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Amanda Nsubuga University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Ida Shakespeare Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Winner

Sophie Barber

University of Brighton at Sussex Coast College Hastings

De La Warr Pavilion

Sophie paints intuitively, exploring a figurative language painting on large-scale un-stretched canvas using oil paint as her medium. She does not plan, but goes to the canvas and explores images from her mind or images that she has absorbed from the everyday. The process is searching for a balance of arresting images and making them work together in the painting. For Sophie each thing in the painting is equally important; they can’t exist without each other. Sophie is conscious of the space she leaves empty on the canvas, as to her the empty space is just as important as the elements she has painted, and see it as the form to make the things she has painted live together.

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Nominees

Elizabeth Cahill University of Hertfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Nathan Caldecott Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Stephen Foy-Philp Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Svetlana Ochkovskaya Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Christopher Beattie University for the Creative Arts - UCA Farnham Aspex Visit Website
Edward Carey Winchester School of Art – University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
India Coles Winchester School of Art – University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Pietra Marello University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
George Marguet-Pew Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Archie Munro University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Vanessa Omer University for the Creative Arts - UCA Farnham Aspex Visit Website
Hannah Stockem Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website
Vytaute Trijonyte University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Fay Turner Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Morgan Ward University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Amy Wilson University of Brighton at Sussex Coast College Hastings De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
The 13 Person Collective University of Brighton De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Dominyka Barauskaite University of Hertfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Christopher Daubney University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Simon Harutyunyan University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Freddie Davies Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Laura Nicholson University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Adina Breden-Thorpe University for the Creative Arts – UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Edward Byard Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Tayler Goatier University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Luiza Jordan University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Kieran Rook University for the Creative Arts – UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Janine-Chantal Weger University for the Creative Arts – UCA Canterbury Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Winner

Daniel Owusu

University of Kent

Turner Contemporary

Daniel spent his early childhood years living in Ghana and moved to Britain at the age of 7. He has always had a keen interest in making and inventing things. Daniel’s work is deep rooted in his passion and love for melody, rhythm and film. As a child, his grandmother always urged him to go to the front and sing at church whilst the pastor called for testimonials. He describes these moments as ‘pressing toothpaste from the bottom’. His practice combines memory with an investigation of the processes and legacy of colonialism. For the University of Kent degree show, Daniel staged a performance which juxtaposed the spatial features of a tennis court and an exam room, inviting visitors to come and sit an exam.

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Nominees

Sian Hutchins Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Eleanor Pearch University of Brighton De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Olive Sanderson University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Nacheal Catnott University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Leandro Alenfel Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Kate Aries Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website
Sophie Bownes University for the Creative Arts - UCA Farnham Aspex Visit Website
Charlotte Bradley University for the Creative Arts - UCA Farnham Aspex Visit Website
Krasimira Butseva University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Mia Delve Winchester School of Art - University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Ellie Man Winchester School of Art - University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Anca-Ioana Pirvu University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Consuelo Simpson University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Gabrielle Swales Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website
Krista Torrens University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
MMRDR University of Brighton at Sussex Coast College Hastings De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Eleanor Pearch University of Brighton De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Megan Drury University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Emma Hardy Buckinghamshire New University MK Gallery Visit Website
Ikran Abdille University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Elizabeth Holmes Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Mirren Kessling Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Kayleigh Baker University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Jessica Grønlund Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
George Morl University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Sariya Suwannakarn University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Mas Weeb Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Winner

Tom Heatley

University of Brighton

De La Warr Pavilion

Tom Heatley creates his work as a means to resolve a personal uncertainty in his choice to pursue photography over sculpture. The presentation of his images moves away from traditional photographic framing, employing found materials, balance and suspension as a means to display his work.

Beginning life as an ethnographic study of the University of Brighton’s sculpture department, Heatley’s series of images, The Sculptors, illuminates the artist’s three dimensional inclinations through the documentation of incidental sculptures, still-lives and staged constructions. His images are displayed alongside objects and materials collected from the sculpture studio, presenting them as artefacts that reference the original location where the image was captured.

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Nominees

Amelia Marsh Winchester School of Art – University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Deborah Mills Buckinghamshire New University MK Gallery Visit Website
Emily Willey University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
David Vargas Quiroga University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Paul Benham University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Holly Childs Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website
Ejaz Christilano Winchester School of Art – University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Lina Ivanova University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Julia Keenan University for the Creative Arts - UCA Farnham Aspex Visit Website
Nathan Klein University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Tina Lane Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website
Gemma McGrath University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Emma McKinney Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Jasmine O’Hare Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Cathryn Quail University for the Creative Arts - UCA Farnham Aspex Visit Website
Celeste Barker Sussex Coast College Hastings De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Naomi Holdbrook Sussex Coast College Hastings De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Holly Jarvis University of Brighton De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Isobel Owen University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Emma Richardson University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Alex Wickenden University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Laurien Ash Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Susannah Canning Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Ida Cholewinska Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Ben Crawford University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Maria Fukerova Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Evdokia Georgiou University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Laura Hepworth University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Layla Moore University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Nadia Perrotta University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Lois Proctor Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Winner

Sophie Dixon

University of Kent

Turner Contemporary

Sophie Dixon is a cross-disciplinary artist. Her recent work uses Virtual and Mixed Reality as part of her continued enquiry into how we construct narratives about the past. Less interested in portraying an historic truth, her work explores the connections between events across time – an attempt to open up the spaces between the experience of an event, and our later interpretations of it.

Sophie has an MA (Hons) from the Netherlands Film Academy and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Kent University. She has undertaken residencies in the UK and Europe and has exhibited in solo and group shows, including at the EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam, and the Turner Contemporary.

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Nominees

Samuel Lloyd University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Izabela Brudkiewicz University of Brighton De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Holger Kilumets University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Rachel Minott University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Peter Driver Winchester School of Art – University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Chris Green Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website
Brad Kenny University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Robbie Lowden University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
George Michels University of Portsmouth Aspex Visit Website
Steve Moberly Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Kirsty Smith Winchester School of Art – University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Robin James Sullivan Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Emily Taylor Southampton Solent University Aspex Visit Website
Art Fare: The Shop De La Warr Pavilion Visit Website
Jacob Austin University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Sophie Fowkes University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
James Haggas Buckinghamshire New University MK Gallery Visit Website
Suzannah Holford University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Maxwell Kirwin Buckinghamshire New University MK Gallery Visit Website
Matt Girling Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Rosamund Lakin Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Siegfried Habeck University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Neel Hune Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Shona McGovern Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Simon Merrifield University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Claire Orme University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Delia Perrigo Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Mai Spring University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Jonathan Webb University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Winner

Dominic Callaghan

Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford

Modern Art Oxford

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Nominees

Alex Padfield University for the Creative Arts Aspex Visit Website
Pascale Wilson Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Cally Shadbolt Buckinghamshire New University MK Gallery Visit Website
Alex Warchol University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Louise Fitzgerald University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Hannah Allison-Finucane Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Louisa Love University of the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Charlotte Smith University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Archie Bell Aspex Visit Website
Jonathan Bulezuik Aspex Visit Website
Sophie Cottrell Winchester School of Art – University of Southampton Aspex Visit Website
Olivia Kattenhorn University of Chichester Aspex Visit Website
Emily Scott University for the Creative Arts Aspex Visit Website
Edward Clayton Buckinghamshire New University MK Gallery Visit Website
Scott Kells University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Holly Kemish University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Gemma Davies Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Rosanna Reed Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Lewdjaw / Jack Wilson University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Rachel Johnston Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Linda Simon University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Harry Tomkins University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Daniella Turbin University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Winner

Joella Wheatley

Arts University Bournemouth

Aspex

Joella's paintings explore the mind as a channel for restructuring the concept of space. Using the combination of drawing and painting as a springboard for invention, she challenges the boundaries of a first-hand experience by containing herself within an actual physical space for a certain amount of time. This drastically reduces the amount of normal social interaction, of reasonable mental stimulus of exposure to the natural world, where almost everything that makes life human and bearable is emotionally, physically and psychologically removed. When the things that our brain and body rely on to connect to and understand are taken away from us, this denies us the ability to ask questions and seek reasons for explanations that allow us to understand ourselves.

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Nominees

George Bills Arts University Bournemouth Aspex Visit Website
Karolina Lebek University of Bedfordshire MK Gallery Visit Website
Marion Piper Buckinghamshire New University MK Gallery Visit Website
Cara George Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Kamila Janska Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Naomi Eaton-Baudains Canterbury Christ Church University Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Dominic Maffia University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Other Exhibiting Artists

Sophie Allen Aspex Visit Website
Jennifer Brown Aspex Visit Website
Jasmine Scott Aspex Visit Website
Deme Georghiou Aspex Visit Website
Marianne Glass Aspex Visit Website
Hailey Walsh Aspex Visit Website
Saliha El Houssaini Buckinghamshire New University MK Gallery Visit Website
Lauren Stanton University of Northampton MK Gallery Visit Website
Laura Bleach Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Jack Eden Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Alana Francis University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Lucy Garnett Oxford Cherwell Valley College Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Jan Kaesbach Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Hannah Mills University of Reading Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Amy Wilkins Oxford Brookes University Modern Art Oxford Visit Website
Karen Crosby University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Jack Coulson Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Alexandra Hanschell University of Kent Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Sabina Tupin University for the Creative Arts Turner Contemporary Visit Website
Laura Walters Turner Contemporary Visit Website

Platform Alumni Network

We maintain contact with artists featured in past exhibitions through the Platform Alumni network, a support network to help them sustain the skills and focus they need to progress their practice and survive as an artist. Through a responsive programme of meet-ups and communications, artists share their practice and exchange experiences with each other.

We spotlight member artists regularly through focus articles in the News section and through Instagram takeovers.

Here is a video of an event we hosted with the Platform Alumni and Reading International at the University of Reading. Speakers from left to right: Platform Alumni Artists George Morl, Rachael Minott, Nacheal Catnott, Sophie Dixon, with CVAN South East Manager Oliver Sumner, and Susanne Clausen, Professor at University of Reading and Director of Reading International.

 
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