Juliette Losq beat off competition from a shortlist of 71 selected artists to win the £5,000 first prize. Chair of judges Professor Stephen Farthing RA said: “This is the most extraordinary winner we could have ever hoped for. We chose the first prize winner and there was absolutely no doubt in any of the judges minds that we wanted this one.” Using a combination of ink and watercolour masking fluids the large-scale pen and ink drawing ‘We are the fiction of the vanished lives and buildings’ documents the derelict waterways of the capital whilst referencing the tradition of the Victorian etched print.
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Student Wins Top Drawing Prize
A first year undergraduate BA art student from Wimbledon School of Art won first prize in the UK’s most prestigious drawing competition, the Jerwood Prize 2005.
Juliette Losq beat off competition from a shortlist of 71 selected artists to win the £5,000 first prize. Chair of judges Professor Stephen Farthing RA said: “This is the most extraordinary winner we could have ever hoped for. We chose the first prize winner and there was absolutely no doubt in any of the judges minds that we wanted this one.” Using a combination of ink and watercolour masking fluids the large-scale pen and ink drawing ‘We are the fiction of the vanished lives and buildings’ documents the derelict waterways of the capital whilst referencing the tradition of the Victorian etched print.
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Irish Art
Juliette Losq beat off competition from a shortlist of 71 selected artists to win the £5,000 first prize. Chair of judges Professor Stephen Farthing RA said: “This is the most extraordinary winner we could have ever hoped for. We chose the first prize winner and there was absolutely no doubt in any of the judges minds that we wanted this one.” Using a combination of ink and watercolour masking fluids the large-scale pen and ink drawing ‘We are the fiction of the vanished lives and buildings’ documents the derelict waterways of the capital whilst referencing the tradition of the Victorian etched print.
For the full story - click the title
Irish Art
