In London: Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015

Matthew Finn, Joanna Piotrowska and Tereza Zelenkova
Jerwood Space, London
4 Nov 2015 - 13 Dec 2015

touring to:
Impressions Gallery, Bradford
5 Jan 2016 - 19 March 2016
   
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
Autumn 2016
A group exhibition of new photographic works by three artists selected for the inaugural national Jerwood/Photoworks Awards, a new collaboration between Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Photoworks. Each artist has received an award of £5000 to make new work and developmental support from a pool of thirteen mentors including Alec Soth, Gillian Wearing, Broomberg & Chanarin and Michael Mack.

Matthew Finn

My new body of work is the continuation of an ongoing piece about my mother.
The award coincided with a dramatic change in my mother’s health, sadly for the worse, and her re-housing into a 24-hour dementia wing. This had a large effect on both our relationship and the work itself.

Read Ann Jastrab article here

Joanna Piotrowska

Inspired by the ideas of Carol Gilligan from her two books: In a different voice and Joining the resistance, I’m returning to self-defence movements. This time I work not only with women, but also with adolescent girls. According to Gilligan,11-17 year old girls, lose some part of themselves, in order to adjust to patriarchal culture by repressing their inner and honest voice.

Tereza Zelenkova

My new work started as an attempt to create a portrayal of the Czech Republic my home country, reflecting its peculiar beauty, which I believe is imbued with elements of darkness and melancholy, occasionally seeping to the surface through morbid fairytales, forgotten biographies, local histories and superstitions.

 

Jerwood Space
171 Union St, London SE1
23 November 2015
6.30-7.45pm
FREE

Join the three JPA15 Awardees: Matthew Finn, Joanna Piotrowska and Tereza Zelenkova in conversation with V&A curator of photographs, Martin Barnes.

All about PHOTOWORKS: HERE