We are delighted to reveal the prize-winners of Jackson’s Art Prize 2024.
Read on to find out the prize-winners of the eight Material Awards, six Judge’s Choice Awards, the People’s Choice Award, three Runners Up, and the winner of the Second Prize. We also look forward to announcing First Prize winner in an additional article.
Jackson’s Art Prize 2024 Material Award Winners
Congratulations to the following artists, who will each receive up to £1,000 worth of fine art materials from this year’s Award Sponsors. We would like to thank Michael Harding, Golden, Schmincke, Faber-Castell, Unison Colour, St Cuthberts Mill, and Speedball for sponsoring the Material Awards.
Oil Award
Louise Wallace
Pond Nite Life, 2022 Louise Wallace Oil on canvas, 53 x 64 cm | 20.8 x 25.1 in
“Pond Nite Life is a beguiling and ambiguous nocturne with an alluring use of bold shapes and softly textured passages of oil colour. Louise Wallace has achieved a mood and depth that matches her painting’s theme.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Louise has won £1,000 of oil paint provided by Michael Harding.
Acrylic Award
Chris Bruce
Top Table, 2023 Chris Bruce Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 76 cm | 29.9 x 29.9 in
“Chris Bruce has confidently executed a raucous dinner party scene in his painting Top Table. It’s a theatrical and colourful handling of acrylic that’s as much a feast for our eyes as it is a feast for the carnal senses of those depicted.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Chris has won £1,000 of acrylic paint and medium provided by Golden.
Watercolour Award
Nicholas Phillips
Boundary Line, 2023 Nicholas Phillips Watercolour on paper, 26 x 40 cm | 10.2 x 15.7 in
“Boundary Line is an exquisite watercolour that shows the subtlety and possibilities of the medium. Nicolas Phillips’s painting is deceptively simple but full of gentle movement and a real sense of being alive in a place.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Nicholas has won £1,000 of watercolour paint and palettes provided by Schmincke.
Drawing Award
Ada Augustyniak
Memory of a Forest, 2021 Ada Augustyniak Markers on paper, 15 x 21 cm | 5.9 x 8.2 in
“Ada Augustyniak’s beautiful Memory of a Forest makes use of a limited palette of colour with a strong tonal range. Markers are allowed to bleed through and the paper is then reversed to create this atmospheric and light-filled drawing.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Ada has won £750 of drawing materials provided by Faber-Castell.
Pastel Award
Hyun Yoon
Heat Waves, 2023 Hyun Yoon Pastel pencil and acrylic on paper, 71 x 50.5 cm | 27.9 x 19.8 in
“Hyun Yoon’s intriguing abstract Heat Waves evokes the oppressive heat of summer days in the city. Using a combination of media (pastel pencils and acrylic), this piece has both a lightness of touch and a sense of the monumental.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Hyun has won £750 of pastels provided by Unison Colour.
Intaglio Award
Willow Wells
Resonance, 2023 Willow Wells Etching print on paper, 36.5 x 45.7 cm | 14.3 x 17.9 in
“A technically sophisticated etching, Willow Wells’s Resonance has elements reminiscent of Goya’s Disasters of War series, as well as the pastoral evocations of William Blake. The more time you spend looking, the more bodily elements emerge.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Willow has won £500 of paper provided by St Cuthberts Mill.
Relief Award
Daniel Howden
The Kitchen Sink, 2024 Daniel Howden Lino print on paper, 30 x 30 cm | 11.8 x 11.8 in
“The 277 registrations involved in creating this linocut print are all but beyond comprehension. Daniel Howden’s The Kitchen Sink is a celebration of the possibilities of the reduction linocut technique while injecting his subject with a sense of affection and warmth.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Daniel has won £500 of inks provided by Cranfield.
Planographic Award
Georgia Green
Dartmoor Tiger, 2022 Georgia Green Risograph print on paper, 21 x 14.8 cm | 8.2 x 5.8 in
“Georgia Green’s risograph print Dartmoor Tiger is awash with the warm grainy textures afforded by the medium, enhanced by a palette of oranges and warm earthy hues. It has a cinematic quality with an understated sense of magical realism.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Georgia has won £500 of printmaking materials provided by Speedball.
Jackson’s Art Prize 2024 People’s Choice and Judge’s Choice Award Winners
The winners of the Judge’s Choice Awards were selected by the Guest Judging Panel for 2024: Matthew Burrows, Joey Yu, Alayo Akinkugbe, Charlotte Sorapure, Hugo Barclay, and Melissa Ling.
Additionally, the winner of the People’s Choice Award was chosen by the public from the longlist. Thank you for your votes!
Each winner will receive £1,000 in Jackson’s art materials.
Matthew Burrows’ Judge’s Choice Award
Paula MacArthur
When Nothing Else Remains, 2023 Paula MacArthur Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm | 39.3 x 39.3 in
“Paula MacArthur’s painting When Nothing Else Remains resonates with its intensity of form and colour. When looking through the many worthy entries for the Jackson’s Art Prize, it was MacArthur’s painting that kept catching my eye and drawing me back in. It is an image of something half-recognised and yet fractured by colour and light into something abstract.
The shift between these two perceptual states draws you in closer to observe the gentle shift between transparent and opaque colours, reflecting and refracting light into and across the surface. The painting does that thing that all great paintings do: it gives you something to grasp and a mystery that defies explanation.” Matthew Burrows
Paula has won £1,000 Jackson’s art materials.
Joey Yu’s Judge’s Choice Award
Barbara Zankovich
Football in the Courtyard, 2022 Barbara Zankovich Lino print on paper, 40 x 60 cm | 15.7 x 23.6 in
“The composition and the shapes of the characters were the first thing that caught my eye in this piece. I love how they look like they are all about to fall over, the figure in blue with a leg bent at an impossible angle. There’s just so much movement. I really loved the material application too, the speckled shadows almost evoking film grain to me, like a memory. Super evocative. In terms of subject, I liked the universal familiarity of it – there is a courtyard in every city around the world with this scene, bodies lunging for the ball. It’s really beautiful.” Joey Yu
Barbara has won £1,000 Jackson’s art materials.
Alayo Akinkugbe’s Judge’s Choice Award
Lucille Dweck
Ollie and Orlando, 2024 Lucille Dweck Oil on linen, 200 x 80 cm | 78.7 x 31.4 in
“I was immediately struck by this portrait of two people in love, both wearing all black clothing and backdropped by deep scarlet drapery. I felt it was very special, and a clear winner because I couldn’t get it out of my head.
The image remained ingrained in my mind as I looked through all of the brilliant entries. The story behind the painting, which I didn’t read until after I had chosen it, only adds to the power of the narrative that it conveys about a ‘unique’ couple, in the words of the artist.” Alayo Akinkugbe
Lucille has won £1,000 Jackson’s art materials.
Charlotte Sorapure’s Judge’s Choice Award
Igor Bitman
Europeans, 2022 Igor Bitman Oil and oil pastel on canvas, 174 x 230 cm | 68.5 x 90.5 in
“Igor Bitman’s painting Europeans is an ambitious and complex composition. It is also a subtle, evocative image – both of its time and yet timeless. The patinated surface of the work is reminiscent of an ancient fresco; however the distant cranes, factories billowing smoke and a battleship, ominously bearing down on the modest boat ‘Europa’ with its Ukrainian flag, makes the allegory current and thought provoking.
The painting is full of observation, and yet in no way just mere illustration – it is perhaps this understated narrative that gives the work such a powerful and compelling atmosphere.” Charlotte Sorapure
Igor has won £1,000 Jackson’s art materials.
Hugo Barclay’s Judge’s Choice Award
Melanie Berman
Sugar Plum Words, 2024 Melanie Berman Acrylic and acrylic ink on linen, 70 x 60 cm | 27.5 x 23.6 in
“Melanie Berman’s work drew me in to look for more. Curious to understand the interplay between shapes, colour and negative space.
Things rarely happen in isolation, the relationship of Berman’s compositions, her unconscious choices in mark making resonate deeply with the idea of exploring ones innate quest for truth and our existence.” Hugo Barclay
Melanie has won £1,000 Jackson’s art materials.
Melissa Ling’s Judge’s Choice Award
Lorenzo Aceto
Bucaneve, 2022 Lorenzo Aceto Oil on canvas, 180 x 140 cm | 70.8 x 55.1 in
“I was captivated by Lorenzo Aceto’s painting Bucaneve with its striking representation of the cyclical nature of life and death, depicted through energetic and repetitive brushstrokes. The subject matter, colours and handling of paint emphasised this theme which deeply resonated with me.” Melissa Ling
Lorenzo has won £1,000 Jackson’s art materials.
People’s Choice Award
Abi Whitlock
Lone Star, 2024 Abi Whitlock Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 40 cm | 31.4 x 15.7 in
Thank you for voting for the winner of the People’s Choice Award from the longlist.
Abi has won £1,000 Jackson’s art materials.
Jackson’s Art Prize 2024 Runners Up and Second Prize
Runner Up
Danny Leyland
Hunters of the Black Swan, 2024 Danny Leyland Oil on canvas, 90 x 120 cm | 35.4 x 47.2 in
“Danny Leyland’s work revels in the idea of time, place and meaning overlapping where ghosts from the past clash with the present. His painting has a loose, almost collaged style that creates something intriguing and compelling.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Danny has won £1,000 Jackson’s art materials.
Runner Up
Jakob Sheidt
The Three, 2024 Jakob Sheidt Acrylic and oil on canvas, 200 x 130 cm | 78.7 x 51.1 in
“Sumptuous colour choices that play with big tonal shifts to create something fresh and contemporary in feel, Jakob Scheidt’s The Three is highly accomplished both formally and figuratively.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Jakob has won £1,000 Jackson’s art materials.
Runner Up
Emeli Theander
Beasts, 2019 Emeli Theander Oil on canvas, 160 x 120 cm | 69.9 x 47.2 in
“Emeli Theander’s playful and lyrical painting has a mysterious, almost baroque feel. A reflection on motherhood, Beasts has a wonderful sense of movement counterbalanced by the stillness of the water.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Emeli has won £1,000 Jackson’s art materials.
Second Prize
Alessandra Acierno
Leaving the House, Followed, 2023 Alessandra Acierno Oil on canvas, 127 x 117.5 cm | 50 x 46.2 in
“Alessandra Acierno’s painting Leaving The House, Followed is about encounter and unease, and how, for the viewer, a lack of crucial details about this crossing of paths dislocates its meaning.
Through clever use of close tones and harmonious hues, this complex and ominous work exudes a powerful emotional intensity and a jarring suspended narrative.” Jackson’s Judging Committee
Alessandra has won £3,000 plus £1,000 Jackson’s art materials.
Upcoming Schedule:
Judge’s Choice and People’s Choice Award Winners Announced: 18th April
Runners Up and Second Prize Winner Announced: 19th April, Morning
Jackson’s Art Prize 2024 Winner Announced: 19th April, Afternoon
Josephine Zentner is the Art Prize and Gallery Coordinator at Jackson’s, overseeing projects with artists and arts organisations; in addition to running Jackson’s Art Prize, an annual competition spotlighting artistic talent within the Jackson’s community. She contributes articles to the Blog with a focus on the Art Prize and its participants. Outside her work with Jackson’s, Josephine is a painter working in acrylic.
