In 2010 Latitude Festival announced the launch of Latitude Contemporary Art (LCA) Exhibition and Award with the aim to “continue and expand Latitude’s enormous commitment and devotion to the arts” with a whopping £10,000 up for grabs to this year’s winner.
The LCA team comprises creator of Latitude and managing director of Festival Republic Melvin Benn, independent arts writer Louise Gray, Artes Mundi chief executive and curator Ben Borthwick, curator/deputy editor of The Wire Anne Hilde Neset, and managing director of Lavish, Ami Jade Cadillac.
The winning artist is set to receive the £10,000 LCA Award which is chosen by an independent panel of judges on site at Latitude Festival. The prize covers research, development, production costs and artist fees for a new piece for the LCA exhibition at the following year’s Latitude.
Here are the nominees…
Alice Anderson, an ex Ecole Des Beaux-Arts student she completed her studies with a fine art MA at Goldsmiths. For Latitude, she will present FOLLOW ME, a large site-specific sculpture made of dolls’ hair and wax. Visitors will be invited to follow a metamorphosing hair rope through the woods in order to discover what is at the other end.
When asked, what was the first this you did when you found out you was nominated, she replied “I imagined the wood and started to WORK straight away.”
Graham Dolphin, is yet to unveil his plans for LCA award, so we wait with anticipation. If his past work is anything to go by – appropriation of objects and icons in the fashion and music industries, reforming them to reveal the obsessive and formulas of mass culture, we’re in for a statement and a treat.
What was Graham’s reaction to being selected? “Ermm great, what the hell am I going to make!?”
Andy Harper is a UK based artist with RCA MA under his belt primarily working in painting. For LCA he will create An Orrery for Other Worlds, fabricating and painting an internally lit sphere that will be suspended in the woods.
Delaine Le Bas works primarily in painting, textiles and three-dimensional constructions. For Latitude she will create – The World Turned Upside Down In The Cathedral Of Erotic Misery (after Kurt Schwitters), a woodland installation which explores the witch hunts of Matthew Hopkins, best known as the 17th-century Witchfinder General. Her secret space, part relic, part hide-out, will offer a place to reflect and contemplate.
Maslen & Mehra, UK based duo, working in the medium-format of photography will present, Common Ground. Figures from different historical periods and cultures are juxtaposed in compositions, which have been painstakingly created using hand-made mirrored sculptures and drawing.
So what was the first this you both did when you found out when you were nominated? “We had dinner with the Aussie rock band Grinspoons guitarist, Pat Davern. We might have had a couple of very nice cocktails and told him their reps should look into Latitude. A Festival which is going from strength to strength“.
Last year’s winner, the theatre-maker, composer and artist Graeme Miller will be returning this year with a new specially commissioned piece unveiled at the festival.
Latitude Festival runs from 14th – 17th July, for more info on all five artists, the weekend’s events and music line-up visit the site here.
Alicja McCarthy
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