We are thrilled to announce the First Prize winner of Jackson’s Art Prize 2024, Andrew Torr.
Congratulations to Andrew, who has won £5,000, plus £2,000 Jackson’s art materials.
We look forward to sharing more of Andrew’s work, practice, and thoughts in his upcoming interview.
Estate will also be celebrated among winning and shortlisted artworks at our London exhibitions – Affordable Art Fair and Bankside Gallery.
Jackson’s Art Prize 2024 Winner
Andrew Torr
Estate, 2023
Andrew Torr
Oil on linen, 120 x 120 cm | 47.2 x 47.2 in
Jackson’s Judging Committee:
“Andrew Torr’s melancholic Estate deftly evokes the familiar yet inconspicuous spaces where a housing estate meets the countryside and gently injects this highly accomplished painting with a hint of Romanticism.
Quiet and understated, Estate gradually reveals a skilful combination of techniques from the fine foreground detail and the curious abstract flecks in the midground to the spare brushwork that evokes the buildings which begin to melt into the sky where they meet on the horizon.”
Andrew Torr:
“I’m so genuinely bowled over to have won first prize in the Jackson’s Art Prize 2024, particularly because the quality of work in the competition is so high this year. There are a lot of painters and printmakers who made the long and shortlist, many of them people I follow closely and some of them friends, that I have admired for so long and feel very honoured to be considered to stand beside them.
I knew there was something interesting to dig out of that subject matter, but it doesn’t always guarantee that anyone else will get it, so a massive thank you to the panel and guest judges too.”
Andrew Torr, Winner of Jackson’s Art Prize 2024
Born in Yorkshire in 1965, Andrew Torr moved to London in 1983 to study painting under Bernard Cohen at Wimbledon School of Art. He has lived and worked in the capital since completing his degree in 1987 initially from a studio in Cable Street in the East End and latterly in Wandsworth.
Much of his work has been an attempt to render and explore the city, and most recently, Torr has been working on a series of paintings of suburban housing estates; the modest, all-purpose, vernacular architecture, ubiquitous in UK towns and cities. These paintings share the same interest in big spaces and the lived environment but, although they are formal paintings, they are charged with a quiet melancholy
and ennui.
In 1992, Torr took a forced sabbatical after suffering a serious accident which severed all the tendons and nerves of his right hand. This may well have finished his career but surgeons were able to reattach the connective tissue and, through therapy and determination, he regained enough dexterity to return to painting.
Detail of Estate
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