Lewis HazelwoodHorner has been announced as winner of the 2016 Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Europe’s leading open competition for figurative and representational art. Lewis receives a cash prize of £20,000 and a solo exhibition for a wider body of his work at Mall Galleries later this year.
His work, Salt in Tea, was painted following a twoyear residency at the bespoke umbrella shop James Smith & Sons in London’s West End. The title refers to when the craftsmen jokingly put salt or too much sugar in one another’s tea. HazelwoodHorner attended the Byam Shaw School of Art (201011) and the London Atelier for Representation Art (201214).
Selection panellist Tim Knox, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum said, ‘‘This large and confident painting depicts real people with knotty hands and stubbly muzzles immersed in a timeless, archaic trade which hasn’t changed for hundreds of years. This very accomplished painting showcases grandeur, confidence, wit and gritty...realism which truly impressed the judges who felt it had an enticing documentary quality.”
Selected from 3,828 entries submitted by 1,973 artists from 29 European countries, the winner was chosen by a panel that included Emma CrichtonMiller (journalist), David Dawson (artist, writer and photographer), Dr Arturo Galansino (Director General at Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence), Tim Knox (Director, Fitzwilliam Museum) and Lewis McNaught (Director, Mall Galleries).
Salt in Tea is included in The Columbia Threadneedle Prize exhibition at the Mall Galleries from 3 rd to 20 th February, along with 93 other selected works. A smaller selection of figurative works by five young Italian artists, specially curated by Dr Arturo Galansino, Director General of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, is exhibited alongside the Prize exhibition. Following this, a selection of works from the Prize exhibition in London will travel to the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence in an unprecedented exchange.
The Shortlist:
J. Carlos Naranjo: "El Mameluco (After the Battle)
Peter Clossick Neac: "Summer Solctice"
Lewis Hazelwood-Horner: "Salt in Tea"
Nicholas Holmes: "Winston Field"
Laura Smith: "Shells"
Chris Thomas: "Sheep with their Lambs"
Imágenes de la Exposición
J. Carlos Naranjo, El mameluco (After the battle)
Entrada actualizada el el 11 feb de 2016
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