Screen printer Ciara Phillips nominated for the 30th anniversary of Turner Prize!
We are pretty sure that from now on, everytime screen printer Ciara Phillipslooks at the horizon to see what lies beyond she must find excitement. Excitement and joy as she is on this year’s shortlist for the prestigious and provocative contemporary Turner prize.
We LOVE that screenprinting is clearly elevating in the art world!
The nomination announcement said the four artists’ methods “suggest the impact of the internet, cinema, TV and mobile technologies on a new generation of artists”. The four artists will now use or create work for a Turner prize exhibition at Tate Britain from 30 September with the £25,000 winner named on 1 December.
Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis, who chairs the jury, admitted this year’s Turner nominees were “less well known” than in previous years.
‘They are serious works, they have quite a political or social commitment’– Curtis said at Thursday’s shortlist announcement.
Lizzie Carey-Thomas, Tate Britain’s curator of contemporary art, said the shortlist was “more accessible” than in past years:
‘It’s not art about art, it’s art about the world and other subjects everybody has experience of and can relate to.’
Canada-born and Glasgow-based, Ciara is interested in forms that have “occupied the margins” including craft and design. She has been shortlisted for a two-month project at The Showroom gallery in north-west London, inspired by a pioneering artist called Corita Kent, who died in 1986, where she set up a temporary print studio and invited artists, designers, and local women’s groups to produce new screen prints. She also set up The Poster Club, a collective of like-minded artists, in Glasgow in 2010, and produces screenprints, textiles, photographs and wall paintings to create awesome art as site-specific installations.
The Scotsman newspaper wrote last year: ‘Phillips is a brilliant print maker who imbues the medium with a freshness that is remarkable, in posters, prints and textiles’ and we totally agree.
Everyone here at Print Club London wishes her the best of luck!
Go, Ciara!!!