Jana Kühne is this year’s recipient of the CACT Award for Sculpture, and is currently studying at the Art Academy. She says: “My practice engages with ideas about nature, environment, and landscape through drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. The central theme is that of rewilding: the abandonment of analytical tools and intellectual knowledge in […]
The Chelsea Arts Club Trust Stan Smith Award for an Artist Under 35, worth £1,000 was awarded to Ciana Taylor for Sex Education for Girls, a moving image work replicating an Irish sex education film from the ‘80s, in combination with distorted realities, forming an interrogation into the artist’s personal story. Ciana says: ‘Specialising in […]
Katie Shannon is a current MFA student at Goldsmiths; her practice moves between visual art, performance and event making. She often works collaboratively with projects instigated though happenstance situation and friendship. Fandom, outsider Music cultures, pedestrian Fetish and filmic Feminist allyship across re-read Time codes are continuing research interests. Recent works include action with tlc23 Fet Miasma Mis at Le […]
Nivashini Rajalaxmi Siva is the 2023/24 recipient of the Chelsea Arts Club Trust Award for Textiles and Fashion, and studies Sustainable Fashion Business at Kingston University. “A tenacious learner hailing from a city in the southern part of the Indian coastline originally called madras. I’m sure the fabric bleeding madras would be a good sustainable […]
Petter Skurdal is the 2023/24 recipient of the Chelsea Arts Club Trust Award for Dance, and studies at The Place / London Contemporary Dance School. “My practice is a mystery to myself. The best way for me to put it is that I have questions I never want to find the answers to. The state […]
Jeehee Kim is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works between London and Seoul. Now she is in the second year of MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University in London, UK. She graduated with a BFA at Hongik University in Seoul, exploring oriental painting and oriental philosophy. “My artistic vision is to capture the phenomenological […]
Charis Entwisle is the 2023/24 recipient of the MA Materials and Research Award for the Royal College of Art. “I work mainly in pen and ink or oil on board. My work varies but the main objective is to make ideas that are immediately accessible without being explicit. I think there’s something dignified in how […]
Daniel Whitehead is the 2023/24 recipient of the MA Materials and Research Award, and studies MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL. “I focus mostly on sculpture and installation but do occasionally work in different mediums. The work itself revolves around my own experiences growing up and living in the western world and […]
Ven Paldano (they / them) is a non-binary trans-masculine identified QPoC entrepreneur, architectural assistant and community organiser, who co-founded Brighton QTIPoC Narratives Collective to make ‘safer space’ for QTIPoC. Ven is the recipient of the 2023/24 CACT Charles Knevitt Architecture Award. Ven works in property renovations and until recently a restaurateur, they are particularly focused […]
Nathaniel Mackie is a tailor dressmaker and designer, graduate of Kingston School of Art and recipient of the Chelsea Arts Club Trust Award for Textiles and Fashion. Nathaniel is also custodian and dealer of artist, sculptor and flamenco dancer Ron Hitchins‘ art. In 2023, Nathaniel exhibited his designs at Dorich House: Seguiriya; seguir 1. to […]
