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The 2010 Jerwood Contemporary Makers are:



Laura Ellen Bacon David Rhys Jones Laura Potter

Chien-Wei Chang Kirsty MacDougall Tomoaki Suzuki

David Clarke Nicola Malkin Ingrid Tait

Carl Clerkin Taslim Martin Marloes ten Bhomer

Julie Cooke Flora McLean Maud Traon

Robert Dawson Rowan Mersh Richard Wheater

Nora Fok Gareth Neal Conor Wilson

David Gates Karen Nicol Emma Woffenden

Joseph Harrington Heather Park Dawn Youll

Tony Hayward Lina Peterson



The exhibition, designed by Michael Marriot, will take visitors on a visual journey through the different approaches to the art of making, highlighting its importance as a visual arts discipline. Jerwood Contemporary Makers is the UK’s only award for the applied arts and is a major strand of the Jerwood Visual Arts programme.



Jerwood Contemporary Makers, was launched by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation in 2008 as a three-year exhibition series supporting and showcasing emerging creative talent. Each year, a different panel of selectors has curated the exhibition, inviting a group of makers to respond to a different guiding concept.



Also...

In conversation with Dawn Youll & David Gates

Tuesday 3rd August 6 – 7 pm

Canada Room, QUB

Reflecting on craft practice and the themes of the Slow Movement, writer Eleanor Flegg talks to craft practitioners - Dawn Youll and David Gates. Works by both David and Dawn are part of the Jerwood Contemporary Makers exhibition.



Jerwood Contemporary Makers is the UK’s only award for the applied arts and is a major strand of the Jerwood Visual Arts programme. Jerwood Contemporary Makers, was launched by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation in 2008 as a three-year exhibition series supporting and showcasing emerging creative talent. Each year, a different panel of selectors has curated the exhibition, inviting a group of makers to respond to a different guiding concept.