Awardees
Hima Bijoy
UCA Farnham
Aspex Portsmouth
Hima’s work delves into the complex interplay between comfort and abjection, using found-material sculptures to provoke visceral responses in viewers. Through a process-driven practice, Hima explores the dynamic relationship between artist, artwork, and audience.
Katrina and Luca Dayanc
University of Reading
Modern Art Oxford
Luca and Katrina Dayanc explore material waste such as sound, found objects, text and costume, to challenge social and institutional systems. Their collaborative work draws on the concepts of folds and ornamentation (such as the pearls formed from mollusc excretion) and their neurodiverse approach embraces time, movement and a perpetual space to create.
Kitty Reeves-Short
University of Brighton
Phoenix Art Space
Kitty Reeves-Short makes work that centres around analogue, hand-rendered processes and materiality, with a strong emphasis on archival materials, photo manipulation, and printed matter.
Indigo Wills
Falmouth University
MIRROR
Indigo Wills uses techniques of queering and fictioning. In recent work, Indigo has started to burrow into the familiar terrain of the mining landscapes she grew up around, finding queer kinship in the mineral veins and muddy ground.
