JERWOOD VISUAL ARTS IN 2017

We worked with over 100 artists, curators and writers and commissioned 23 new works, investing over £439,800 in developing visual arts practice in the UK Based at Jerwood Space 171 Union Street London SE1 0LN

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Anna Bunting-Branch, The Labours of the Barren House – Finger Spell (G.L.A.M.O.U.R), 2016. Commissioned for Jerwood Solo Presentations 2017, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Image: Anna Arca JERWOOD VISUAL ARTS A national programme supporting 2017 was an exceptionally productive and ambitious year for us and the visual arts practice, through which artists we worked with. The demand Jerwood Charitable Foundation for artist-centred support has never been greater and as one of the few UK works with early-career artists funders that can support individuals to commission and present directly our call for entry opportunities had an overwhelming response. Our increasingly ambitious new funds could have been spent many, work. Artist opportunities run many times over. throughout the year alongside a Good quality space and time to programme of related exhibitions, experiment and make is beyond the development needs, taking the total recruited through the regional networks means of many early-career artists, investment through this project to of each partner organisation. events and commissioned writing and there is an absence of investment £24,000 since 2016. taking place online, in London from elsewhere to ensure a well- In September Jerwood Open Forest grounded and sustainable practice. Early-career artists are also finding commission Keith Harrison’s Joyride and across the UK Support is often heavily output-driven, opportunities to present new work more took place, culminating in a live event commercial or mainstream, restricting constricted than ever, perhaps worsened at Cannock Chase Forest, Rugeley. more experimental or radical enquiries. by the closure of a number of small The ceramic artist launched a life-size We welcome Arts Council England’s and mid-scale galleries in major cities. clay replica Rover 75, the last car to new Developing Your Creative Practice We continued two recently introduced leave the Longbridge carplant, down fund, which has the potential to make a initiatives at Jerwood Space that offer a temporary 10-metre high ramp to a great difference. a much needed exhibition platform in specially commissioned soundtrack London: Jerwood Staging Series and illuminated by the headlights of Our own work attempts to tip the Jerwood Solo Presentations. We also onlookers. The community-focused balance of power away from institutions launched a second edition of 3-Phase, project and live event brought together back into artists’ hands, offering a collaborative model in partnership personal and social narratives around greater self-determination, choice, with Eastside Projects, Birmingham and the automotive industry in the West control and vision. In 2017 we awarded WORKPLACE, Gateshead to support Midlands, informed by the artists’ Keith Harrison's Joyride, a Jerwood Open Forest Commission, 2017. a further 12 Artist Bursaries to the development of early-career artists’ upbringing in the heavily post- Image: Hydar Dewachi support individual artists's self-defined work over a sustained period of time, industrialised Black Country. Emma Hart’s Max Mara Art Prize received a Crafts Council Hothouse for Women exhibition opened at award. Revital Cohen and Tuur Whitechapel, touring to Collezione Van Balen became Stanley Picker Maramotti, Italy and Fruitmarket Fellows. Silvia Weidenbach began the Gallery, Edinburgh. Lawrence Lek’s inaugural V&A Gilbert Residency and Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017 commission Jasleen Kaur was one of 12 artists was shown as part of HyperPavillion at commissioned by the V&A to speculate the Venice Biennale and he was invited on the future of Europe in the year 4017. to show at the 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam. Clare Twomey We began 2018 with new Director Lilli launched TATE Exchange 2017/18 Geissendorfer and we look forward with her installation FACTORY: the seen to her contribution to this programme and the unseen. Marianna Simnett over the coming months. Clearly an was nominated for the Jarman Award. enormous question which the UK faces An Arts Foundation Award went to is its future status in the world. We are Evan Ifekoya; and Woman’s Hour Craft acutely aware of how this will affect Prize finalists included: winner Phoebe our beneficiaries, from a practical Cummings; Laura Ellen Bacon; Laura point of freedom of movement and Youngson Coll, Emma Woffenden; work opportunities, and also how 2017 has also brought change. primarily support early-career artists and Lin Cheung. it will play out thematically in their Following 17 significant and successful and projects in their early stages work. Meanwhile artists remain under years of support, it was our final year and remain committed to supporting MOMA acquired two works by Joanna increasing financial pressure on all as the key partner and funder for the drawing as a fundamental element of Piotrowska and three pieces were fronts. Our focus remains on how we Jerwood Drawing Prize. It becomes artistic practice. The final exhibition acquired for the Arts Council Collection. continue to provide the best and most The Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing slot of the year in our 2018 programme Semicoductor’s five-channel computer- relevant ways to support the excellence Prize from 2018, and continues to at Jerwood Space will transform with generated animation Earthworks was and creativity of artists in this ever- be led by Professor Anita Taylor at a new, artist-nominated exhibition, purchased by Sorigué Foundation changing world. Bath Spa University. It is rare and Survey. This large group exhibition will Collection. At Frieze Art Fair Ben Burgis unusual that we have the opportunity present newly commissioned work by & Ksenia Pedan and Emma Hart were Sarah Williams, Head of Programme, to follow a project into its mature the most dynamic early-career artists the centre pieces of Union Pacific and Jerwood Visual Arts life and to do so with this project working across the UK, a snapshot Sunday Painter respectively whilst has been an immense privilege. We of current practice. Joanna Piotrowska’s work was shown by Southard Reid. We seek to support outstanding early-career artists who will go on to Morgan Quaintance and Imran Peretta Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, shape and be leading figures in the undertook Wysing’s Polyphonic Evelyn Williams Drawing Award visual arts. Our alumni’s activity in Residency. Kelly Best was awarded recipient Barbara Walker, with her work Exotic Detail in The Margin #2. 2017 tells of continued practice and a place on Zabludowicz Collection’s Image: Hydar Dewachi many successes: Testing Ground. Juli Bolaños-Durman PROGRAMME We worked with over 100 Through Jerwood Visual Arts we deliver awards, commissions and projects often artists, curators and writers and in partnership with leading arts commissioned 23 new works organisations. In 2017 our partners were: Film and Video Umbrella, making two new £20,000 commissions through the Our website received over Jerwood/FVU Awards; Bath Spa University, awarding £27,000 of prizes through the 120,000 sessions from over Jerwood Drawing Prize, including the new 71,600 visitors and there were £10,000 Evelyn Williams Drawing Award; Eastside Projects, Birmingham and over 29,000 physical visits to WORKPLACE, Gateshead supporting the The Backdrop Commission, Kyoto 2004, the programme nationally development of three artists to make new 2014, by The Grantchester Pottery was on work through a second edition of 3-Phase, display in Jerwood Space’s courtyard and and Forestry Commission England, Cosmos by Semiconductor, commissioned Our social media channels presenting Keith Harrison’s £30,000 through Jerwood Open Forest in 2014, commission Joyride at Cannock Chase remains on permanent display in Alice brought over 6400 plays Forest, with the additional support of Holt Forest, Surrey. Exhibitions and of content related to the Arts Council England. screenings took place in Bristol, Bournemouth, Colchester, Cannock programme, and followers Newly commissioned work was presented Chase, Cirencester, Exeter, Glasgow, rose to over 51,000 through Jerwood Staging Series, 21 Leicester, Leigh, Liverpool, London, artists working with performance and Manchester, Newcastle and Norwich. event-based practice, and Jerwood Solo Presentations, three early-career artists The programme received press coverage at pivotal junctures. Two artists made new in AI, ArtDaily, Aesthetica, a-n, Apollo, work for the unique social environment of ArtForum Critics Picks, Art Licks, The Gentlemen Barristas’ café The School Art Monthly, Art Rabbit, Art Week, House adjacent to the galleries at Voyage of the Relic Traveller, 2017 BBC Radio 4, Blueprint, Benchpeg, Jerwood Space. The 12 current Artist Larry Achiampong and Shiraz Bayjoo Birmingham Mail, Ceramics Monthly, Bursary holders met as a group for a Image: Hydar Dewachi Ceramic Review, Christies Interiors, series of developmental events at Jerwood Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 Crafts, Crafts Council, Culture24, Disegno, Space to further support their practice. Image: Hydar Dewachi Evening Standard, FAD, House and In London we run an events programme Gardens, ICON, Londonist, London Live, to accompany each exhibition, led by New Arts West Midlands, Resonance FM, Lauren Houlton. In 2017 we ran 13 public Studio International, Time Out, The Art events, including two offsite from Jerwood Newspaper, The Guardian, The Herald, Space through the Jerwood/FVU Awards The Telegraph, The World of Interiors, at the Cinema Museum and Royal College thisistomorrow.info, VICE and Women in Art. of Art. Event related content generated further plays or listens of over 6480 online. Each year we host a number of Writers in Residence who provide critical and We continued our programme of contextual responses to the programme artist-led workshops with youth groups through substantial commissioned in Southwark led by Holly Graham, Gallery writings published online. In 2017 these Assistant and Learning Coordinator, were James Gormley, Hatty Nestor and providing opportunities for young people Tom Emery and the Writing and Media to engage with the programme. Raju Rage pages of our website received over 3000 worked with Bosco Centre; Patrick Hough views. You can read their writing at with Hollington Youth Centre; Anna jerwoodvisualarts.org. Bunting-Branch with Salmon Youth Centre; Juli Bolaños-Durman with Dis/embodied Resonance, a workshop with Albrighton Community Centre Youth Club; students from Bosco Centre, Bermondsey led by Raju Rage, Anna Bunting-Branch, The Labours of Larry Achiampong with Bradfield Youth the Barren House- Mother Tongue, 2017 Club; and Elisa Alaluusua and Christopher Image: Jerwood Visual Arts Fry led Jerwood Visual Arts’ The Big Work by Richard Whitby as part of Draw event. Jerwood Staging Series 2017 Image: Hydar Dewachi Project Space: Ryan L. Moule, Vessels and Vestiges Jerwood Space, London 22 May – 9 December

Jerwood Staging Series Laura Alhach, Louis Benassi, Katya Chitova, Rob Crosse, Alex Culshaw, Webb Ellis, Gareth Evans, Samuel EXHIBITIONS Fouracre, Keira Greene, Faye Green, Lauren Houlton, Louisa Martin, IN 2017 Harry Meadley, Christian Nyampeta, Guy Oliver, Stanley Schtinter, We presented exhibitions in Jessica Sarah Rinland, Irene Solà, Richard Whitby, Anita Wolska-Kaslow, 14 locations nationally Andrea Luka Zimmerman Jerwood Space, London 25 May – 11 June

Project Space: Jerwood Makers Open Soheila Sokhanvari, Paradise Lost Sam Bakewell, Juli Bolaños-Durman, Jerwood Space, London Jessica Harrison, Marcin Rusak, 9 January – 13 May Laura Youngson Coll Jerwood Space, London Jerwood Solo Presentations 28 June – 27 August 3-Phase Anna Bunting-Branch, Imran Perretta, New Brewery Arts Centre, Cirencester Larry Achiampong, Mark Essen, Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan 15 September – 5 November, and Nicola Singh Jerwood Space, London continued to Devon Guild of Craftsman, Jerwood Space, London 18 January – 26 February Bovey Tracey and Pier Arts Centre, 8 November – 10 December Orkney in 2018 with subsequent new presentations Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017: of work at Eastside Projects and Neither One Thing or Another Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 WORKPLACE in 2018. Patrick Hough, Lawrence Lek Gary Lawrence (First Prize) Jerwood Space, London Ana Mendes (Second Prize) Keith Harrison’s Joyride, a Jerwood 22 March – 14 May Jade Montserrat, Dejan Mrdja Open Forest commission Firstsite, Colchester (Student Awards) Cannock Chase Forest, Rugeley 2 October – 30 November (Lawrence Lek); Barbara Walker (Evelyn Williams 30 September 16 June – 30 July (Patrick Hough) Drawing Award) Lawrence Lek, Geomancer, 2017. Commissioned for Screenings: CCA, Glasgow; HOME, Jerwood Space, London Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017: Neither One Thing or Jerwood Drawing Prize 2016 continued Manchester; Phoenix, Leicester; 13 September – 22 October Another, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation its tour to The Turnpike, Leigh and The and Film and Video Umbrella. Phoenix, Exeter; Tyneside Cinema, East Gallery, Norwich 14 November – Image: Anna Arca. Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth Newcastle; Arnolfini, Bristol; and FACT, 20 January 2018 and The Edge, Bath Liverpool (April 2018) University, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Jessica Harrison with her work 54 Pins, 44 Followers, Jerwood Painting Fellowships 2016 2017. Originally created for Jerwood Makers Open 2017, Canterbury Christchurch University supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Image: continued its tour to The Gallery, and Vane Gallery, Newcastle Hydar Dewachi Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich Selected alumni of the programme include to date: Ed Atkins, Claire Barclay, David Blandy, Lucy Clout, Kate Cooper, Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, Benedict Drew, Cécile B. Evans, The Grantchester Pottery, Keith Harrison, Emma Hart, Jasmine Johnson, Nahoko Kojima, Dale Lewis, Taslim Martin, Nao Matsunaga, Clare Mitten, Joanna Piotrowska, Heather Phillipson, Elizabeth Price, Naheed Raza, James Rigler, Antonio Roberts, Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt), Katie Schwab, Susan Sluglett, Marianna Simnett, Corin Sworn, Clare Twomey and Bedwyr Williams

Selected panellists, curators and advisors we have worked with have included to date: Martin Barnes, Phyllida Barlow RA, Iwona Blazwick OBE, Paul Bonaventura, Duncan Campbell, Broomberg & Chanarin, Glenn Brown, Marcus Coates, Dan Coombs, Michael Craig-Martin RA, Dexter Dalwood, Siobhan Davies, Stephen Farthing RA, Deirdre Figueiredo MBE, Neville Gabie, Paul Hobson, Salima Hashmi, Skinder Hundal, Chantal Joffe RA, Grizedale Arts, Dan Harvey, Shama Khanna, Tania Kovats, Cliff Lawson, Jenni Lomax, Tim Marlow, Mali Morris RA, Fabian Peake, Emma Talbot, Amy Sherlock, Joy Sleeman, George Vasey, Rachel Whiteread CBE and Alison Wilding RA

The team Shonagh Manson, Director, Jerwood Charitable Foundation (until Oct 2017) Lilli Geissendorfer, Director, Jerwood Charitable Foundation (from Jan 2018) Sarah Williams, Head of Programme Oliver Fuke, Gallery Manager Lauren Houlton, Exhibitions Assistant and Events Programmer Holly Graham, Gallery Assistant and Learning Co-ordinator James Murison, Gallery Technician Parker Harris, Project Management Images of performance by Nicola Singh, Jenny Moore and Harriet Plewis as part of support and press Nicola Singh's work for 3-Phase, 2017. Four Colman Getty, press support Image: Hydar Dewachi Anna-Maria Pfab, press support Jerwood Charitable Foundation is dedicated to imaginative and responsible revenue funding of the arts, supporting artists to develop and grow at important stages in their careers www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org