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Contact: Iona Rowland January 2018 T:01372 462 190 E: iona@parkerharris.co.uk

www.jerwoodvisualart.org @JerwoodJVA

Jerwood Visual Arts 2018 Programme Announcement

Jerwood Visual Arts is a national programme that provides the necessary curatorial support and well-resourced opportunities for early-career artists to make increasingly ambitious new work. Since the inception of the programme in 2006, Jerwood Charitable Foundation has channeled over £4.48m into the visual arts, working with more than 1784 artists, writers and curators from across the UK, supporting a wealth of research and new commissions which now reaches audiences of over 60,000 a year.

Proactive and forward thinking, Jerwood Charitable Foundation works closely with specialist project partners, artists, writers and curator-led organisations to ensure that the development of the programme continues to respond to, and meet the changing needs of artists.

2018 programme highlights

Opening in January, the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards presents new photographic work by Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira, exploring themes of death, belonging and the fragility of the natural world. In the adjacent School House cafe, new sculptural work by Rachel Adams is on show, the first of three Project Space Commissions that will take place throughout the year. Jerwood/FVU Awards 2018: Unintended Consequences, which opens in April, will premiere two significant new moving-image commissions by Maeve Brennan and Imran Perretta. In June, Jerwood Solo Presentations will present new work by three early-career artists, and September will see the return of Jerwood Staging Series, showcasing event-based presentations of work over a series of five special events.

New to the programme in 2018 is Survey, a group exhibition that will test the temperature of contemporary visual art practice in the UK. Opening in October, the exhibition will present new work by a large group of outstanding early-career artists from across the UK, all at potentially catalytic moments in their career and selected from nominations made by over 40 regionally based, established artists.

An events programme will accompany each exhibition at Jerwood Space including performances, lectures, screenings and in conversation events.

Three Writers in Residence will produce critical writing in response to the programme beginning with Nicolas Helm-Grovas in January.

12 artists will be awarded bursaries of £1000, each for self-identified developmental activity, through the second edition of Jerwood Visual Arts Artist Bursaries awards.

Artists will be able to apply for new opportunities in 2018 including: Jerwood Makers Open, encouraging ambitious, radical proposals from UK-based makers and collaborators, and Jerwood/FVU Awards 2019: Going, Gone , for early career artists making moving-image work.

3-Phase continues as artists Larry Achiampong, Mark Essen and Nicola Singh present and make new work towards exhibitions at WORKPLACE, Gateshead in April and Eastside Projects, Birmingham in Autumn. Meanwhile Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, Jerwood Makers Open 2017 and Jerwood/Photoworks Awards will continue to tour to venues across the UK.

Further details about the Jerwood Visual Arts programme of exhibitions, events and opportunities for artists can be found below and online at jerwoodvisualarts.org

GALLERY PROGRAMME AT JERWOOD SPACE, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN Gallery Open: Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm

Saturday – Sunday, 10am – 3pm Nearest tubes: Southwark, Borough and London Bridge

EXHIBITIONS ………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Project Space Rachel Adams, Right Twice a Day 15 January – 28 Apri l 2018

Right Twice a Day is a new sculptural work by Glasgow-based artist, Rachel Adams. Its design is a culmination of features drawn from a traditional grandfather clock and The Maiden, a guillotine that was used between the 16th and 18th centuries as a means of execution in Edinburgh, Scotland. Two further commissions will be announced throughout 2018.

Jerwood/Photoworks Awards Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin, Lua Ribeira 17 January – 11 March 2018

An exhibition of new photographic works by three early career artists Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira, enabled by the second Jerwood/Photoworks Awards, which responds to themes of death, belonging and the fragility of the natural world. With a bursary of £5,000 each and access to a significant production fund to make new work, the artists underwent a year of developmental support from photography specialists such as Mitch Epstein, Michael Mack and Maureen Paley plus the teams at Photoworks and Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Selected from over 350 artists following a national call for entries by Celia Davies, Director of Photoworks; Sarah Williams, Head of Programme, Jerwood Visual Arts; Anna Fox, photographer; Ori Gersht, photographer; and Mark Durden, writer and photographer.

The exhibition will tour nationally to Impressions Gallery, Bradford and Belfast Exposed, Belfast. Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are a collaboration between Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Photoworks, supported by Arts Council England and Official Print Partner, Spectrum Photographic.

Rachel Adams, Right Twice A Day. Image courtesy of the artist and Domo Baal.

Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Untitled, from the series Where We Belong, 2017. Originally commissioned for Jerwood/Photoworks Awards, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Photoworks.

Jerwood/FVU Awards: Unintended Consequences Maeve Brennan & Imran Perretta 6 Apri l – 3 June 2018

An exhibition of two new moving-image commissions by early career artists Maeve Brennan and Imran Perretta made in response to the curatorial theme Unintended Consequences. Each artist received £20,000 to develop these significant new moving-image works. At a moment when world events are so volatile and turbulent that it’s hard to predict what might happen next, the two artists’ proposals reflect the complex, entangled nature of contemporary experience.

The Jerwood/FVU Awards are a collaboration between Jerwood Charitable Foundation and FVU. FVU is supported by Arts Council England.

Jerwood Solo Presentations 20 June – 26 August 2018 Jerwood Solo Presentations 2018 will showcase newly commissioned work by three early-career artists concurrently at Jerwood Space, London.

Jerwood Staging Series 8 - 16 September 2018 An experimental series of film screenings and live events curated by Sarah Williams, Head of Programme and Oliver Fuke, Gallery Manager.

Survey 3 October – 16 December 2018 A large group exhibition exploring contemporary artistic practice in the UK, comprising newly commissioned work by outstanding early-career artists within five years of establishing their practice and at potentially catalytic moments in their career. Artists will be selected from nominations made by over 40 regionally based, established artists. The exhibition responds to a need for artists who are no longer recent graduates but still early in their careers, to benefit from a supported opportunity to make and show new work in a group exhibition format. The exhibition will be curated by Sarah Williams, Head of Programme, Jerwood Visual Arts.

EVENTS PROGRAMME …………………………………………………………………………………………………. An events programme accompanies each exhibition at Jerwood Space. Events are free to attend and places are bookable in advance.

EXHIBITIONS ON TOUR ………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 14 November 2017 – 20 January 2018 East Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts 10 February – 31 March 2018 The Edge, University of Bath 11 April – 6 May 2018 Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury 26 May – 28 July 2018 Vane Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Imran Perretta, 15 Days, (research image) Courtesy Jerwood/FVU Awards.

3-Phase 28 April – 9 June 2018 WORKPLACE, Gateshead Autumn 2018 Eastside Projects, Birmingham

Jerwood Makers Open 2017 20 January – 11 March 2018 Devon Guild of Craftsmen 24 March – 9 June 2018 Pier Arts Centre, Orkney

Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2018 6 April – 23 June 2018 Impressions Gallery, Bradford 2 November – 22 December 2018 Belfast Exposed, Belfast

For opening times, please refer to each venue’s website

WRITER IN RESIDENCE …………………………………………………………………………………………………. Nicolas Helm-Grovas January – June 2018

The Jerwood Visual Arts’ Writers in Residence opportunity was established in 2010 to critically engage emerging writers with the programme. The first Writer in Residence of 2018 is Nicolas Helm-Grovas.

Nicolas Helm-Grovas is a writer and researcher currently based in Oxford. He is a PhD candidate in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, writing a thesis entitled Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Theory and Practice, Aesthetics and Politics, 1963-1983. His writing has been published in Afterimage in Moving Image Review and Art Journal and in Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture, and Experimental Film in the 1970s, edited by Sue Clayton and Laura Mulvey (London: I. B. Tauris, 2017).

Alumni include Alice Butler, Louisa Elderton, Philomena Epps, Tom Emery, Gareth Evans, Chris Fite-Wassilak, James Gormley, Lizzie Homersham, Shama Khanna, Jessica Lack, Patrick Langley, Basia Lewandowska Cummings, Kathryn Lloyd, Elinor Morgan, Eleanor Nairne, Hatty Nestor, Tom Overton, Colin Perry, Morgan Quaintance, David Trigg, and George Vasey.

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS ………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Jerwood/FVU Awards 2019 Deadline: 11 April 2018 www.jerwoodfvuawards.com

Jerwood Makers Open Deadline: September 2018 www.jerwoodvisualarts.org

Notes to editors:

Jerwood Visual Arts is a national programme supporting visual arts practice, through which Jerwood Charitable Foundation works with early career artists to commission and present new work. Artist opportunities run throughout the year alongside a programme of related exhibitions, events and commissioned writing taking place online, in London and across the UK. www.jerwoodvisualarts.org

Jerwood Charitable Foundation is dedicated to imaginative and responsible revenue funding of the arts, supporting artists to develop and grow at important stages in their careers. The aim of its funding is to allow artists and arts organisations to thrive; to continue to develop their skills, imagination and creativity with integrity. It works with artists across art forms, from dance and theatre to literature, music and the visual arts. For more information visit www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org