The Batsford Prize 2024 Awards Evening
The Batsford Prize 2024
Last Wednesday 29 May Batsford were delight to announce the winners and runners up of the Batsford Prize 2024 (Theme: Gravity)!
The awards evening took place at The Batsford Gallery, where the four winners and eight runners up of this year’s award were announced and an exhibition of the full shortlist will unveiled.
In his opening speech, Vaughan Grylls, Batsford Chairman and one of the award’s judges, commended all the shortlisted entries and joked about how particularly fishy this year’s entries were!
The winning entries were ‘Unravelled’ by Rose Cordery (Applied Arts & Textiles), ‘Breeding Migration made-in…’ by Yijing Ze (Fine Art), ‘Oh Crumbs’ by Naomi Tipping (Illustration), ‘Fishy Friday’ by Charlotte Durance (Children’s Illustration). The winners each received a £300 cash prize and £300 worth of books for their college.
The Batsford Prize 2024 was judged by industry professionals Eoghan O’Brien, Neil Dunnicliffe, Frida Green, Vaughan Grylls & Anne Kelly.
Our winners & runner’s up for this year:
WINNER OF APPLIED ART & TEXTILES & OVERALL WINNER:
Unravelled
Rose Cordery, BA (Hons) Textiles, Arts University Bournemouth
‘Unravelled’ is a collection that embodies a sense of unravelling tension under both a conceptual and literal sense of gravity. The collection aims to communicate a cathartic release from the systemic oppression of women.
RUNNER’S UP:
Rock Formations
Hannah Elliott, BA (Hons) Textiles, Arts University Bournemouth
My project has been about rock formations and how the different ranges of rocks to cliffs have inspired my collection to a contrasting colour palette to multiple textures explored.
Still Life
Ella Nathan, BA (Hons) Textiles, Arts University Bournemouth
An Interior collection of printed fabrics, papers and tiles which uses gestural marks and painterly qualities to interpret a principal genre of Western Art in a contemporary manner. Bold shapes and colours have been explored through digital, screen, UV and lino print.
Ella Nathan’s portfolio can be found here.
WINNER OF THE FINE ART CATEGORY:
Breeding Migration-made in…
Zijing Ye, MFA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Arts
The artwork contrasts borderless existence with farmed salmon’s confinement, exploring freedom and identity through foreign foods. The artwork challenges the unitary classification standard of nationality identity, probing societal constraints on freedom despite universal yearning.
RUNNER’S UP:
Food, Connection, Potato
Kaya Lambie, Fine Art & Philosophy, Duncan of Jordanstone
The domestic dwelling which tie welcoming togetherness through sharing around the dinner table, with the weight of human connection binding all parties together to create spaces in time which are little thought of, but greatly valued.
Time’s Fall
Joanna Cohn, MA Print, Royal College of Art
This is an image of the inside of the neolithic caves at Nerja. It is a combination of stalactites and stalagmites, where the two grow a millimetre per hundred years, until they almost touch. The formation is the slow fall of hundreds of thousands of years of gravity pulled drips
WINNER OF THE ILLUSTRATION CATEGORY:
Oh Crumbs
Naomi Tipping, MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
A picture book on the theme of dementia.
RUNNER’S UP:
Falling for You
Tom Melin, Graphic Design, Nottingham Trent University
This project explores the relationship between humans and gravity in a playful manner.
KISS
Yu-An Xie, MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
This is a gift book for adult audience to read and send to their loved ones. Love is like the gravity that pulls people towards where they belong and whom they feel safe with. The book shows different types of kisses to tell a story about a long-distance relationship.
Yu An Xie’s portfolio can be found here.
WINNER OF THE CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATION CATEGORY:
Fishy Friday
Charlotte Durance, MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Fishy Friday is a book which depicts a big drama in a small community. The humour lies in the gravity of the situation for the villagers as their sleepy village is turned upside down.
RUNNER’S UP:
Honest Olive
Rose Grover, MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
This picture book was created for 3-7 year olds. It tells the story of a well-meaning child who tells her first lie, which comes to life and causes her endless trouble. When she realises the gravity of the situation, she strives to put it right.
Marigolds
Aditi Anand, MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Marigolds is an attempt to highlight the gravity of child labour in India. It’s a story about lost childhoods, thus serving as a window into a world that may be different from the readers’.
Aditi Anand’s portfolio can be found here.
The Batsford Prize 2024 Exhibition is showing at The Batsford Gallery until Sunday 9 June.
