Jerwood Makers Open 2019

Mark Corfield-Moore, Forest + Found, Lucie Gledhill, Bethan Lloyd Worthington and Tana West

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Mark Corfield-Moore, Celestial Meteors, 2019 (left); Nitrous Flame, 2019 (middle) and Golden Showers, 2019 (right). Dyed Warp, handwoven cotton in oak frame.
Mark Corfield-Moore, Celestial Meteors, 2019. Photo: Anna Arca
Mark Corfield-Moore, Golden Showers, 2019 . Photo: Anna Arca
Mark Corfield-Moore, Nitrous Flame, 2019 (detail). Dyed Warp, handwoven cotton in oak frame. Photo: Anna Arca
Lucie Gledhill, Chain, 2019. Wood, iron and silver. Photo: Anna Arca
Lucie Gledhill, Chain, 2019 (detail). Wood, iron and silver. Photo: Anna Arca
Lucie Gledhill, Chain, 2019 (detail). Wood, iron and silver. Photo: Anna Arca
Forest + Found, The Subjective Element, 2019 (detail). Photo: Anna Arca
Forest + Found, Cleft Land Jar I, 2019 (left) and Cleft Land Jar II, 2019 (right). Photo: Anna Arca
Forest + Found, Revenant III, 2019. Pine tar (cedar of Lebanon), thread, calico. Photo: Anna Arca
Bethan Lloyd Worthington, Making all the greens unstable, 2019. Photo: Anna Arca
Bethan Lloyd Worthington, Making all the greens unstable, 2019 (detail). Two colour riso print on Corona paper. Photo: Anna Arca
Bethan Lloyd Worthington, Therefore the moon, pale in her anger, 2019. Photo: Anna Arca
Tana West, Through a Glass Darkly, 2019. Black glazed ceramics and steel frame. Photo: Anna Arca
Tana West, Through a Glass Darkly, 2019. Black glazed ceramics and steel frame. Photo: Anna Arca
Tana West, Through a Glass Darkly (detail), 2019. Black glazed ceramics and steel frame. Photo: Anna Arca
Tana West, Through a Glass Darkly, 2019 (detail). Black glazed ceramics and steel frame. Photo: Anna Arca

Five new commissions by early-career makers Lucie Gledhill, Abigail Booth and Max Bainbridge (Forest + Found), Mark Corfield-Moore, Tana West and Bethan Lloyd Worthington brought about through the biennial Jerwood Makers Open. Each artist combines a high level of technical skill with imagination and intellectual adventure, constituting a fresh and exciting direction in their work.

The artists were selected from over 300 applications in response to a UK-wide call for entries for self-directed projects from artists, makers and collaborators within 10 years of establishing their practice. Each artist receives a bursary of £8,000 to support experimentation and the making of new work for this exhibition. A curatorial development programme will run alongside the exhibitions made possible with Art Fund support.

Selectors: Rana Begum, artist; Grace Wales Bonner, fashion designer; Alun Graves, Senior Curator at the V&A; Tanya Harrod, writer and independent design historian; Alistair Hudson, Director at Manchester Art Gallery and The Whitworth; and Lilli Geissendorfer, Director of Jerwood Arts.

Jerwood Makers Open was established in 2010 to promote the significance of making and materials within the visual arts arena, seeking to support exceptional skill and imagination. It supports artists to freely develop creative ideas central to their individual practices. It looks broadly at how contemporary artists are defining or challenging the boundaries of what has traditionally been described as applied arts. Alumni include: Jasleen Kaur, Keith Harrison, Jessica Harrison, James Rigler, Silvia Weidenbach and Will Shannon.

 

Mark Corfield-Moore, Celestial Meteors, 2019 (left); Nitrous Flame, 2019 (middle) and Golden Showers, 2019 (right). Dyed Warp, handwoven cotton in oak frame.