Press Release
1 July 2004
WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR CHILDREN'S TURNER PRIZE
A digital four-screen reinterpretation of Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode; ceramics inspired by William de Morgan; photography inspired by the work of Andreas Gursky; designer bird tables complete with specially designed bird food and bird sounds; a dress made entirely out of gloves, an animated retelling of the Ramayana; video and installation inspired by a visit to Sachenhausen Concentration Camp in Germany; a dance piece created and performed in empty Victorian swimming baths in Manchester, graffiti and VJ films are among the winning projects in this year's ARTWORKS Young Artists of the Year Awards.
The Awards will be announced by Artworks Patron, Loyd Grossman OBE and presented by Damon Albarn, Antony Gormley, the Rt Hon Estelle Morris, Minister for the Arts, and Dame Vivien Duffield at a Ceremony at Tate Modern on Children's Art Day, Thursday 1 July, with an exhibition of winning works at Tate Modern, curated by artist Richard Wentworth, running until Sunday 18 July.
Works by children from thirty-two schools throughout the UK, with ages ranging from 4 to 18, have been selected by a panel of judges including National Portrait Gallery Director, Sandy Nairne; architect David Adjaye and Tate Liverpool Director, Christoph Grunenberg.
In addition to awards totalling £61,000, ARTWORKS winners this year will also receive a specially commissioned, limited edition, signed print by Marc Quinn, whose next project is a sculpture for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2005.
The ARTWORKS programme, funded by the Clore Duffield Foundation, has developed over the last five years as Britain's most prestigious showcase for art and creative teaching in schools. The programme includes influential research investigating policy and practice in school-based art education; support for events all over the country for Children's Art Day, and the annual ARTWORKS Awards, which reach out to every school in the UK, and have inspired the work of 37,000 school children and teachers.
Children's Art Day this year will include hundreds of events for families and school children on Thursday 1 July and over the following weekend, 3 and 4 July. From a giant, free, art workshop in Trafalgar Square, London, to an art bus in Glasgow, children's creativity will be celebrated all over the UK.
www.art-works.org.uk
PRESS ENQUIRIES ERICA BOLTON/JANE QUINN 020 7221 5000
ARTWORKS AWARD WINNERS 2004
ENGLAND
Nottingham
Arboretum Nursery School (Working with Artists)
Nottingham High School for Girls (Working from Other Sources)
London
Charles Edward Brooke School, SE5 (Working with Artists)
Lauriston Primary School, E9 (Working with Artists)
Oak Lodge School, Balham SW12 (Working with Artists)
Latymer School, Enfield N9 (Working from Other Sources)
Plymouth
Devonport High for Boys (Working with Artists)
Tonbridge, Kent
Sussex Road Primary School (Working from Other Sources)
Brighton
Downs View Community College (Special Encouragement Award)
Bath
Frome Community College (Working with Artists)
Bolton
Harper Green School (Working with Artists)
Warwick
Trinity Catholic Technical College (2 awards - Working with Artists and Working from Other Sources)
Hereford
Trinity Primary School (Working with Artists)
Bewdley, Worcs
Bewdley High School (Special Encouragement Award)
Manchester
St Mary's Catholic High School (Special Encouragement Award)
Medlock Primary School (Working with Galleries)
Washington, Tyne & Wear
Biddick School (Working with Galleries)
Richmond, Surrey
Christ's School (Working with Galleries)
Bournemouth
Heathlands Primary School (Working with Galleries)
Winton Boys School (Working with Galleries)
Chesterfield
Holme Hall Primary School (Working with Galleries)
Southampton
Hounsdown Secondary School (Working with Galleries)
Oxford
Oxford Community School (Working with Galleries)
Henley on Thames, Oxon
Stepping Stones Nursery School (Working with Galleries)
Stamford, Lincs
St Gilbert's Primary School (Working with Galleries)
Churchdown, Glos
Churchdown School (Working from Other Sources)
Birmingham
Dartmouth High School (Working from Other Sources)
SCOTLAND
Fort William
Caol Primary School (Working with Artists)
Aberdeen
Kirkhill Primary School(Working with Artists)
WALES
Cardiff
St Teilos Church in Wales High School (Working with Artists)
Woodlands High School (Working from Other Sources)
