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The Marmite Prize for Painting
2010
Sarah Kate
Wilson
Crinkled
Love
Fabric paint, ribbon,
and metallic 3D bow on canvas
125 x 100
cm
2010
Courtesy of the
artist
Marmite III
8th
December 2010- 26th February 2011
Central Art Gallery is pleased to
announce the opening of The Marmite Prize for Painting
2010.
The Marmite Prize for Painting is
the only nomadic, biennial, open submission painting
competition in Britain.
Works
for the 2010 touring show were selected by Marcus
Cope, Steve Dutton, Marie Holland,
Keran James, Michael Keenan, Sadie
Kerr and Stephanie Moran.
The
prize winners will be selected at the final show of the tour
by the judges, Marcus Harvey, Dan Hays,
Mali Morris RA and Dai Roberts. Each year
the Prize is dedicated to an artist admired by the curators,
Marcus Cope and Stephanie Moran, which influences the hang.
This year their hero is Ida Applebroog.
The
winner will receive specially commissioned marmite artwork
'Hammerhead', made and very kindly donated by artist
Bill Woodrow RA.
This
year the open call attracted nearly 600 entries from painters
in the UK and abroad.
Tom Ormond
The New Light of
Tomorrow
2010
Oil on Linen
183 x 239
cm
Courtesy of the artist
Artists Selected for the Exhibition
are:
Jeremy Akerman, Georgina Amos, Iain Andrews, Matthew
John Atkinson, Karl Bielik, Max Cahn, Amir Chasson, Julie
Cockburn, Melanie Comber, Hugh Davies, Louisa Durose, Karl
England, David Fletcher, Alice Forward, Patrick Galway, Steph
Goodger, David Hancock, Siân Hislop, Tina Jenkins, Kate
Knight, Hannah Knox, Matthew Krishanu, Kate Lyddon, Nadine
Mahoney, Amy Moffat, Sophie Oates, Tom Ormond, Bernadette
O’Toole, Yvonne Parr, Jemimah Patterson, Michael Pybus, Kes
Richardson,
James Quin, Daniela Sarigu, Paul Savage, Robin
Seir, Benjamin Senior, David Small, Soheila Sokhanvari,
William Stein, Ryuta Suzuki, David Sweet, Mia Taylor, Mimei
Thompson, Ben Walker, Sean Williams, Sarah Kate Wilson, Doreen
Wittenbols
Iain
Andrews
The Eat Me
2010
Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 60 cm
Courtesy of the
artist
The
Marmite Prize for Painting is more of an attitude, a
detournement, than an art prize. It is a non-profit project
organised and run by Cope and Moran, both
painters.
Started up in 2006 out of an irritation with art
prizes, it retains that ambivalence towards the idea of The
Prize. The project is designed as a fantasy prize, and changes
each time. This year shortlisted works were collected from
studios around the country. Marmite III is also touring across
the country from Central Art Gallery,
Tameside, to Lanchester Gallery Projects,
Coventry and finishing at The Nunnery,
London. The concern is to maintain fairness, with a
shortlisting committee comprising of curators from each
gallery of the tour, and no cv’s or bios considered. The
invited judges are artists with a particular interest in
painting, who played no part in the selection of work for
exhibition.
The Marmite Prize for Painting is best entered
into in the spirit of a questioning of art prizes, and for the
thrill of the exhibition. A cash prize would be inappropriate
to its concerns: the focus is on the unplaceable value of the
artwork, beyond ideas of ownership; as integral and necessary
for life and thought. The marmite is the prize – an
earthenware pot hand-made by an artist, representing a token,
an exchange, a recognition that any ‘prize’ is unequal and no
value may legitimately be put on an artwork; it also stands
for the alchemy of the process of making - whether divine
inspiration or rigourous working process; sweaty excitement or
long, cool labour? A witch’s cauldron, a vat of nourishment, a
scientist’s test tube? Or a symbol of resistance, of the
solidarity of the people, as in the Genevan Marmite Festival -
a celebration of the power of soup-filled marmites in a
territory under threat of invasion, in memory of the night the
marmite saved the day. (Fête de l’Escalade or the Marmite
Festival: An annual celebration in Geneva in memory of the
night attack by the Savoyards in 1602, when a housewife
dispatched a Savoyard soldier by tipping her marmite of hot
vegetable soup over his head. Genevan confiseurs annually make
the Marmite de l’Escalade, small chocolate pots filled with
marzipan vegetables. The custom is to smash the chocolate pot,
while shouting: “Thus perish the enemies of the Republic
[of Geneva].”)
There
is a full colour catalogue published by Susak Press to
accompany the exhibition, to be available through the website and at
the exhibition venues.
We
hope you enjoy the 2010 show!
The
Marmite Prize for Painting is in no way associated with
the food product ‘Marmite’.
Marmite 2010
Installation view
Marmite
2010 Installation view with the prize, 'Hammerhead' by Bill
Woodrow.
Central Art Gallery,
Tameside
Old
Street
Ashton-under-Lyne
OL6
7SG
E info @
marmite prize.org
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