Exhibition | Selectors | Nominations
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Exhibition
The shortlisted artists for this year's Northern Art Prize are Clare Charnley, Richard Forster, Paul Rooney and Imogen Stidworthy. An exhibition of their work, including film, photography, drawing, performance and installation, will take place at Leeds Art Gallery from 21 November 2008 until 1 February 2009. The winner will be announced on 15 January 2009.
Exhibition opening hours
Mon, Tues 10am-8pm; Wed 12-8pm; Thurs, Fri, Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 1-5pm; closed bank holidays. For Christmas and New Year closures, go to www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery or phone 0113 2478256. Admission FREE.
Artist Discussions
A series of early evening events through December and January with this year's shortlisted artists in conversation with the curators who nominated them.
Wednesday 3 December 2008, 6pm
Paul Rooney and Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs, National Media Museum, Bradford
Wednesday 10 December 2008, 6pm
Richard Forster and Jon Bewley, Director, Locus+, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Wednesday 7 January 2009, 6pm
Clare Charnley and Moira Innes, Curator, Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
Wednesday 14 January 2009, 6pm
Imogen Stidworthy and Paul Sullivan, Director, Static, Liverpool
Tickets are £5 (£3 concessions) on the door. Reservations can be made via Leeds Art Gallery on 0113 2478256.
Take part in Misunderstandings by Clare Charnley
Take part in The Misunderstandings Project by ClareCharnley, who will be videoing accounts of misunderstandings for inclusion in the Northern Art Prize Exhibition. She is interested in all kinds of misunderstandings; ones that take place through, language, situations, culture, technology etc; serious misunderstandings that change the course of events to the everyday small-scale ones that have little or no effect. They don’t have to be humorous, though they can be and the length of the account is not important. The only criterion is that it must have happened to you, either as the person who misunderstands or the one who is misunderstood.
If you have a misunderstanding and would like to take part in the project, come along to Leeds Art Gallery on 22, 29 November and 6 December between 1-4pm.
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Selectors
The selectors for 2008 are Iwona Blazwick (Director Whitechapel Art Gallery), Louisa Buck (Writer and contemporary art critic), Georgina Starr (Artist) and Anita Zabludowicz (Art Collector), chaired by Tanja Pirsig-Marshall (Curator of Exhibitions, Leeds Art Gallery) who also curates the exhibition of work by the shortlisted artists.
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Nominations
The longlisted artists for 2008 are:
Catherine Bertola, Sabine J Bieli, Simon Blackmore, Maxine Bristow, Suki Chan, Clare Charnley, Fiona Crisp, Conroy/Sanderson (Neil Conroy and Lesley Sanderson), Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Bryan and Laura Davies, Graham Dolphin, Peter J Evans, Richard Forster, Stefan Gec, Matthew Harrison, Esther Johnson, Brigitta Jurack, Penny Klepuszewska, Jacqueline Passmore, Maeve Rendle, Paul Rooney, Imogen Stidworthy, Katy Woods
The nominators for 2008 are:
North East
Jon Bewley, Co-Director, Locus+; Rashida Davison, Founder and Director, Globe Gallery; Alessandro Vincentelli, Acting Head of Programme, Baltic; Beth Rowson, Independent Curator
North West
Louise Clennell, Gallery Co-ordinator, Turnpike Gallery; Ying Kwok, Curator, Chinese Arts Centre; Paul Sullivan, Director, Static; Stuart Tulloch, Curator, Grundy Art Gallery
Yorkshire
Moira Innes, Curator, Leeds Met Gallery; Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs, National Media Museum; Carol Maund, Director, Site Gallery; Antonino Vella, Curator, Wakefield Art Gallery
