Sproxton Photography Award

Antonio Marguet

lccadmin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:05:24 +0000

‘Deodorant Games by Antonio Marguet brings together sculpture and photog-raphy in an exploration of the cultural and material construction of consumer identities. In his images the raw materials of consumer culture playfully seek their future forms.’

Orestis Kalvaris

lccadmin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:35:37 +0000

The work of Orestis Kalvaris deals with existential concerns, the notion of existence as part of non-existence and vice versa, of the body as both object and eternal image - sacred, divine almost.

Jessica Mallock

lccadmin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:19:32 +0000

Jessica Mallock’s photographic-sculptures explore ideas around ordering, arranging and disruption, making links between the domestic obligation to keep house and the desire to make art.

Krzysztof Szmigielski

lccadmin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:44:15 +0000

‘Palindromes’ from the series ‘Line&Point’ by Krzysztof Szmigielski revisits the formal concerns of traditional black and white art photography to question the ways in which photographs communicate with and through each other in an endless deferral of meaning.

Hee Seung Chung

admin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:18:37 +0000

Hee Seung Chung’s staged portraits of actors in the Persona Series transpose their performances from the stage into the studio to explore their creation of character and emotion in an almost forensic setting.

Penny Klepuszewska

admin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:21:05 +0000

Penny Klepuszewska’s Living Arrangements takes an intimate look at old age and isolation through a series of still life photographs in which a painterly light caresses the treasured possessions of her subjects.

Matthew Andrew

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:22:42 +0000

Rise and Fall by Matthew Andrew juxtaposes large scale colour images of archaeological digs and supercomputers to draw attention to a subterranean latency of meaning both in the sites he photographs and in the photographic image itself.

Claire Waffel

admin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:23:49 +0000

Claire Waffell explores her relationship with her grandmother through Close Family, a series of staged and archetypal portraits, and Inventory, a video journey through her grandmother’s house in which memory and reality collide.

Betsie van der Meer

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:25:14 +0000

In Farm, Betsie van der Meer revisits the abandoned farmhouse in which she grew up in an uncanny evocation of a childhood in which rooms and objects are saturated with the shifting and slippery significance of dreams.