Ceramicist Amy Jayne Hughes uses handbuilding techniques to bridge gaps between past and present ceramic traditions. CR’s Annie Le Santo spoke to her to learn more.
Vogue Turkey | Matt Smith
Vogue Turkey | March 3, 2021
Focus On The Female Awards 2021
Together with our artists, supporters, and judges, we gathered at The Exhibitionist Hotel in South Kensington to celebrate the Focus on the Female Awards 2021. It was a warm and joyful occasion in the spirit of #womensupportingwomen, welcoming men who champion and uplift women artists. Our esteemed judges, Dr Chris Blatchley, our dedicated Patron, and Vestalia Chilton, who generously offered us a residency at The Exhibitionist Hotel, announced their decisions and presented the awards.
These honours hold deep meaning for the extraordinarily talented women artists, both established and emerging, who continue to pursue their practice with resilience, navigating challenges, global uncertainty, and lockdowns.
Please join us in celebrating our 2021 winners and read on for the full list of laureates and their remarkable artworks.
Two awards were given for art created during lockdown:
Focus On The Female Art Created During Lockdown Award 2021 has been given to Deborah Azzopardi for her work ‘Unabashed’.
Focus On The Female Art Created During Lockdown Award 2021 has been given to Cristina Schek for her work ‘Florence Lightingale’.
An Honourable Mention in the Focus On The Female Art Created During Lockdown Award 2021 has been given to Eve De Haan for her work 'Text Me When You Get Home, 2021'.
Focus On The Female Emerging Artist Award 2021 has been given to Rafaela De Ascanio for her work ‘Bottoms Up!’
Two Highly Commended Awards were given to:
Focus On The Female Young Masters Highly Commended Award 2021 has been given to Polina Filippova for her work 'Almost There, Self Portrait 01'
Focus On The Female Young Masters Highly Commended Award 2021 has been given to Rebecca Harper for her work 'Landslides'.
And… the overall winner, Focus On The Female Young Masters Award 2021 has been given to Emilie Taylor for her gorgeous pottery presented in the show. The Judges were impressed with her exquisite mastery of the medium, her attention to detail, the subtlety of her palette and the depth and importance of her narrative.
Congratulations to all artists!
On 21st October we had the pleasure of meeting many of you at our Focus On The Female Awards Ceremony & Jazz Night. Please join us in revisiting the lovely and warm moments of this wonderful evening by watching the video below.
While our residency in The Exhibitionist Hotel is coming to its end, you can still view our Focus On The Female curation offline until 31st October at 8-10 Queensberry Pl, South Kensington, London SW7 and online in a dedicated Private View Price List.
Please let us know if you would like any additional information, to arrange a private appointment or curator tour at info@thecynthiacorbettgallery.com.
Thank you for supporting us and our exceptional artists during these exciting months at The Exhibitionist!
Focus On The Female | The Exhibitionist Hotel: 20 July - 31 October 2021
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Young Masters' new showcase, entitled Focus On The Female. Opening on 20th July at The Exhibitionist Hotel (8-10 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, London, SW7 2EA), this curation had been made by women – with women – for everyone to appreciate and enjoy. As Young Masters is a powerful platform supporting and highlighting emerging artists, and as the pandemic affected women disproportionally more than men, we felt an initiative supporting women artists was more than timely and important.
With the precious help of our fellow artists and curators, we have curated an exhibition featuring Gallery-represented artists, Young Masters alumnae as well as artists we have never worked with before.
Focus On The Female is a survey of the artwork of 15 women artists, both established and emerging. Join us on the 20th & 21st of July (3-8PM) for the Private View.
Collect Art Fair 2021
This February Cynthia Corbett Gallery is inviting you behind the scenes of Cynthia Corbett’s Wimbledon home to virtually enjoy our Collect 2021 curation. The Gallery is particularly fortunate as our model was to always involve Wimbledon HQ and enhance our international presence with appearance at venues and spaces fitting our programming and ethos. For Collect 2021 we are recreating what we would have physically shown at our booth at the Fair – in our Home Gallery space in a historic former Victorian convent.
For this outstanding edition of Collect, Cynthia Corbett Gallery is showcasing the artworks of five artists, who create multifaceted narratives while also celebrating materiality. The following three artists, while excelling in their conceptuality, are fascinated with the physical work itself:
· Canadian Christopher Riggio’s vessels, almost art-deco in format, are created with ceramics and glass, yet super-polished like a slab of Carrara marble;
· Spanish Albert Montserrat looks back at the ancient history of Korean moon jars – and takes advantage of the most exquisite technical advancements, using them for his stunning glazes. His work mesmerises with the marriage of the old and new;
· British Amy Hughes’s practice is both fuelled by and symbolic of the highly prestigious Porcelain wares produced at the Royal Sevres Factory in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Hughes’ works reference and pay homage to the originals, but are created with a freer approach, giving them a new lease of life.
Gallery-represented and Young Master Award winner Matt Smith is a true Renaissance artist. Textile embroiderer, ceramicist, art historian, curator, professor of arts: his mission is joining the antique and contemporary while rethinking the ways of what museums collect. His commentary is always infused with social and political mores in both a witty yet serious manner.
American Klari Reis has invented her own medium, using epoxy polymer (a form of liquid plastic) with many added ingredients including pure pigment, acrylic and secrets. Reis’s design is almost otherworldly, her colours unique and her patterns inventive. Her artwork is both object and fine art and she is at the forefront of innovative use of art resources.
Each of these artists have had serious recognition by private and public collections including the V&A, Google, Microsoft, Design Museum Trustee Davina Mallinckrodt and Edmund de Waal.
Virtual viewings over Zoom, Skype, WhatsApp or FaceTime are available by request via info@thecynthiacorbettgallery.com.
FINANCIAL TIMES | HIGHLIGHTS FROM COLLECT CRAFT FAIR’S ONLINE DEBUT WITH ARTSY
MATT SMITH (BRITISH)
After Reynolds, 2020
Reworked Textile with Wool
Amy Hughes interviewed by Preston Fitzgerald
ALBERT MONTSERRAT ADDED TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE BARCELONA DESIGN MUSEUM
“Green Urani Jar” by Albert Montserrat, has been added to the permanent collection of the Barcelona Design Museum.
In a meeting with Montserrat, Pilar Vélez, Barcelona’s Design Museum director, and Isabel Fernández, curator of the museum, decided “Green Urani Jar” will be part of the collection.
Montserrat’s works rose the interest of the public after wining the Ceramics Biennial of Barcelona “Angelina Alós” 2018. This ceramic work was decided to be added to the collection due to“ the highly technical excellence in the processes used on the making of the work as well as the extraordinary skills of the glaze technology and ceramic knowledge.” Jury of the Ceramics Biennial Barcelona “Angelina Alós” 2018
