The Ingram Collection has announced the finalists for the Ingram Prize 2022, the leading annual prize for contemporary artists in the UK. The finalists, whose work can be viewed here, include visual artists from the Royal College of Art, Turps Art School and Central Saint Martins.
The winners will be announced on Wednesday 23rd November 2022 at an award ceremony in London. An exhibition of the finalists’ work will be held at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop from Thursday 24th November until Tuesday 29th November. Previous winners include Sin Wai Kin (FKA Victoria Sin) who is nominated for this year’s prestigious Turner Prize.
I’ve had a long-standing relationship with the Ingram Collection and the Ingram Prize. In 2015, I graduated from Camberwell and one of my works was acquired by the Ingram Collection, which was really important for me. Later in 2017, I won the Ingram Prize with my work, Part Three: Cthulhu Through the Looking Glass. Since then, I’ve gone on to perform at the Venice Biennale and exhibited at Frieze and British Art Show 9. I couldn’t be more grateful and honoured for the continued support of the collection, it’s been super meaningful and everybody has been really supportive.
In 2021, Ukrainian-born Israeli artist Anna Perach won with her sculpture, Daphne, which explores the dynamic between personal and cultural myths, and examines ideas of identity, gender and craft. Since winning the Ingram Prize last year, Anna has exhibited internationally at galleries, including White Cube.
Jo Baring, Director of The Ingram Collection, and Chair of the Ingram Prize jury, said:
We recognise the vital importance of practical support in the early years of an artist’s career. The Ingram Prize celebrates artistic excellence in contemporary British art and enables new talent to bring their art to the widest possible audience. This year’s 29 finalists are no exception, with remarkable work that encapsulates deliberately political and extremely personal themes, including identity, the Ukraine war and migration.
Three of the winning works will be acquired for the The Ingram Collection. The Founder’s Choice Award will be selected by Chris Ingram and will be acquired for The Ingram Collection. One of the three main Ingram Prize winners will be offered a solo exhibition in 2023 at the Art Fund Prize-winning gallery and museum, the Lightbox.
One finalist will be offered a solo exhibition in Autumn 2023 at TM Lighting’s London gallery space, curated by Jo Baring, Director of The Ingram Collection. All finalists will be offered the opportunity to apply for an artist residency project in 2023, given in partnership with Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset.
Created in 2016, the Ingram Prize is the leading annual prize for contemporary artists in the UK and was established by The Ingram Collection to celebrate and support artists at the beginning of their professional careers. The Ingram Prize offers opportunities to exhibit and sell work, a programme of continued professional development and the chance to develop both industry and peer-to-peer networks.
The Ingram Collection
The Ingram Collection is one of the largest and most significant publicly accessible collections of modern British art in the UK, available to all through a programme of loans and exhibitions. Founded in 2002 by serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Chris Ingram, the collection now spans over 100 years of British art and includes over 600 artworks. More than 400 of these are by some of the most important British artists of the twentieth century, amongst them Edward Burra, Lynn Chadwick, Elisabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth and Eduardo Paolozzi. The collection’s main focus is on the art movements that developed in the early and middle decades of the twentieth century, and there is a particularly strong and in-depth holding of Modern British sculpture. The Ingram Collection also holds a growing number of works by young and emerging artists, and in 2016 established the Ingram Prize, an annual purchase prize created to celebrate and support the work and early careers of UK art school graduates.
2022 sees the publication of Revisiting Modern Art (Lund Humphries), published in association with The Ingram Collection and edited by Jo Baring (Director, The Ingram Collection). Through wide-ranging essays by experts in their field, the book explores how as the twenty-first century unfolds, views about our cultural past and how our history has influenced our present shift almost daily. Presenting new perspectives on established narratives, subjects range from British surrealism and the rise of corporate and public patronage, to nationality and British identity. Complemented by a range of striking images, the book shows the strength of the British artistic tradition while also encouraging the reader to rethink and explore the existing narrative. ingramcollection.com
