LUCY CLOUT AND MARIANNA SIMNETT WIN JERWOOD AWARDS

Lucy Clout and Marianna Simnett have been named winners of the Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards. Each will receive approximately $34,000 to develop moving image works that will be shown at Jerwood Space, London, and the Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow in 2015. Clout and Simnett were selected from a shortlist of four artists who were given $6,000 to respond to a curatorial brief; these works are currently on view at Jerwood Space. Said the selection panel: “All four artists have raised the bar to remarkable heights with the rigor and ambition of their development works. Their distinctive voices and subject matter have resulted in an exhibition, which is deep and rich in relation to the theme. For the singularity and pertinence of their proposals, we commended Lucy Clout and Marianna Simnett for the awards. Their brave, confident grasp of the layers and complexities of their ideas was invigorating.”