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10/10/2002

Centre of Attention Art Prize

The Centre of Attention, London

The Centre of Attention is pleased to announce the shortlist for this year's Centre of Attention Art Prize:

Benedict Carpenter
Eric
Becky Hunt
Martina Mullaney
Hrafnkell Sigurdsson
Erasmia Stravoravdi
Danny Treacy

All short-listed artists have a connection with London either living, working or having studied in the Capital.
The Prize Money, like the previous year, stands at one Euro.

The winning artist is chosen by members of the visiting and viewing public casting their votes for their preferred artist.

Benedict Carpenter graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1999 with an MA in Sculpture. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and has completed a number of public commissions at home and abroad. Last year he won the Jerwood Sculpture Prize. Benedict's sculptures are composed to be suggestive but without assuming a fixed and recognisable identity: they are precisely like nothing at all.

Eric studied Sculpture at Chelsea then an MFA at the Slade 1999-2001. His work often combines Sculpture with Photography or Video works. He is obsessed with clouds, intrigued and scared of falling and drowning.

In the image: 'Cable Car',Eric, 1999/2000.

Becky Hunt graduated from Central Saint Martins in June 2002. Her work is humorous and investigates in many mediums, including sculpture, painting, photography and video, the ridiculous and the absurd.

Martina Mullaney is an Irish artist presently studying at the Royal College of Art. Dinner for One, a series of photographic images that address loneliness, has toured Britain and Ireland. She is currently having a solo exhibition at Ffotogallery in Cardiff looking at the issue of homelessness.

Hrafnkell Sigurdsson recently completed an MA at Goldsmiths. His piece, "Oneliner" stems from his fascination with the piles of binliners in the streets, small ephemeral landscapes created artificially in the city. Some of the garbage is "trying to escape" floating above the other bags, which will soon be recycled back into the landscape through landfills.

Erasmia Stravoravdi graduated this year from the Royal Academy Schools in London. Her paintings, images from property magazines or sketches from direct observation, convey a psychological space that hovers between the real, the theatrical and the fictional.

Danny Treacy collects items of found clothing. These are dismantled and reassembled to create a figure completely covered by the clothes of strangers: "I put myself in closest proximity to others, without them actually being there... although for the most part even if a photograph doesn't occur, masturbation usually does...the intimacy gained becomes a subversion, a desire to get close that results in a violation.

More information on the website by contacting Pierre/Gary at the Centre of Attention 020 7729 0699

The Prize is accompanied by an exhibition of the artists' work.
Private View: Friday 11th October, 6 to 9 pm

Exhibition open to 3rd November 2002, Thursdays to Sundays, 2 to 7 pm

With the kind support of the Art Newspaper.

The Centre of Attention, 15 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

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