Bath Spa University and the Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust have joined forces to offer students the chance to develop a body of work based on Porthleven in Cornwall.
The Bath Spa Porthleven Prize is an exciting new opportunity exclusively for Bath Spa students to win one of five fully funded art residences in Porthleven, Cornwall.
A panel of judges met recently to consider the submissions and five students have been selected as prize winners. They are:
- Joseph Turnbull, second year BA Fine Art,
- Jane Hall, second year BA Fine Art,
- Kilda Meadows, third year BA Creative Arts,
- Sara Mark, MA Fine Art,
- Vasilieos Chatzimakris, PhD, Music and Performing Arts.
The prize winners will take part in a ten-day residency in May, based at the Porthleven Lifeboat Art Studio. Whilst there, the students will work together to produce a body of collaborative artwork in any discipline including performance and text, as well as visual art.
The prize is funded by the Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust in association with Bath Spa University. It is an excellent opportunity for students to gain professional artistic experience and promote their own work and practice to commercial galleries, prospective customers and clients.
Rosie Hughes, Life Boat Art Studio manager, said: “I was extremely impressed with the quality of the students’ presentations and am very excited about the project. Trevor Osborne and his team are delighted to be able to collaborate with Bath Spa University in sponsoring these gifted students to create something very special based on the beautiful and historic location of Porthleven.”
The aim of the prize is to encourage students to work together across subjects to create a fusion of creative thinking in the heart of the Porthleven community.
Professor Mike Tooby, acting Dean of the School of Art and Design, said: “The Prize has already generated a terrific collaborative research trip by a group of students from across the University and from all levels of study. We now are looking forward to an exciting phase of new work by a strong and diverse group of creative minds responding to the rich context that Porthleven offers.”
At the end of the residency the artwork will be exhibited to the public at the Lifeboat Art Studio in Porthleven. This will be followed later in the year by a touring exhibition at the O3 Gallery in Oxford as well as the Bath School of Art and Design.
Helen Statham, Director of the O3 Gallery, added: “The O3 Gallery is delighted to be working with students from Bath Spa University in this residency and exhibition. Collaborative practice is so important to contemporary artists working today and we are thrilled to be bringing together five students with such diverse working processes and media. I can’t wait to see what is created through this opportunity!”
Bath School of Art and Design was founded more than 160 years ago and has a successful history and an international reputation for creativity and innovation. The School provides students with the opportunity to work with a wide range of internationally recognised art and design practitioners and thinkers.
