Turner Prize 2023
Image: Installation view of Jesse Darling at Towner Eastbourne, 2023. Photograph: Angus Mill.
ART
Jesse Darling
Turner Prize
Jesse Darling, a Berlin-based artist known for sculptures that stand in for unstable bodies is the winner of the Turner Prize 2023. His recent practice encompasses sculpture, installation, text and drawing. The jury commended his use of materials and commonplace objects like concrete, welded barriers, hazard tape, office files and net curtains, to convey a familiar yet delirious world. Invoking societal breakdown, his presentation unsettles perceived notions of labour, class, Britishness and power.
Freelands Award 2023
Image: Joy Gregory, Objects of Beauty — Bustier, 1992 - 1995. Courtesy the artist
ART
Whitechapel Gallery and Joy Gregory
Freelands Award
Jamaican British artist Joy Gregory and Whitechapel Gallery have won Freelands Award. Founded in 2015, the annual award goes to a public arts institution in the UK to stage a solo exhibition by a mid-career woman artist. Joy Gregory’s work explores the impact of colonialism on global perceptions of beauty, memory, botany, health and traditional knowledge. In autumn 2025, Whitechapel Gallery will stage Joy Gregory’s first monographic exhibition, surveying a four-decade practice. Almost 100 works spanning analogue and digital photography, video, film installation, performance and textiles will highlight Gregory’s contribution to the development of photography in the UK.
Luxembourg Art Prize 2023
Image: Naoko Sekine, Color Scape - Animato, 2021. Paper, oil based colored pencil, 36 x 51 cm.
ART
Naoko Sekine
1er Prix
Japanese artist Naoko Sekine is the winner of the first prize at the Luxembourg Art Prize 2023. In her practice, Naoko Sekine has extensively studied landscapes. Influenced by architecture and lines, landscapes integrate interior and exterior elements, linking consciousness and the environment. Her art explores this complex relationship by painting sensory experiences, seeking to expand the meaning of painting through consciousness and structure. She is now looking for more abstract creative motifs and exploring new visual perspectives.
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BFC Fashion Awards 2023
Image: JW Anderson Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear Fashion Show
FASHION
Jonathan Anderson
Designer of the Year
Jonathan Anderson, creative director of Loewe and founder of his namesake label, JW Anderson, won designer of the year. He was up against Burberry’s Daniel Lee, Bottega Veneta’s Matthieu Blazy, Prada’s Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons as well as former long-time Alexander McQueen creative director Sarah Burton, who exited the house this autumn after almost three decades at the brand. While Burton missed out on designer of the year, she was honored with a special recognition for her indelible impact at both Alexander McQueen and on the fashion industry at large.
Image: Martine Rose Spring 2024 Menswear Collection
FASHION
Martine Rose
British Menswear Designer of the Year
Martine Rose for Martine Rose won British menswear designer of the year, presented by rapper and musician Little Simz. Martine Rose was up against Grace Wales Bonner for Wales Bonner, Kiko Kostadinov for Kiko Kostadinov, Kim Jones for Dior Men and Steven Stokey-Daley for S.S.Daley.
Image: Ferragamo Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear Fashion Show
FASHION
Maximilian Davis
British Womenswear Designer of the Year
British womenswear designer of the year was awarded to Maximilian Davis for Ferragamo. The award was presented by new British Voguehead of editorial content Chioma Nnadi. Maximilian Davis was up against Erdem Moralioğlu for Erdem, Nensi Dojaka for Nensi Dojaka, Roksanda Ilinčić for Roksanda and Simone Rocha for Simone Rocha.
RIBA House of the Year 2023
Image: Hayhurst and Co, Green House, Haringey, London, 2020-2021. © photo: Kilian O'Sullivan
ARCHITECTURE
Green House by Hayhurst & Co
RIBA House of the Year
Green House, designed by Hayhurst & Co, has been named RIBA House of the Year 2023. Green House creatively reimagines a typical terraced house, replacing an existing property down an alleyway, on a confined urban plot. Clad in polycarbonate panels and screened with dense planting, the discrete exterior hides an extraordinary, compact new home. Built on a very tight budget, the five-bedroom family home is an inspiring example of a well-considered home, that is not only ultra-practical and architecturally exciting, but also highly innovative from a sustainability perspective.
About the RIBA House of the Year
2023 Mohn Award
Image: Akinsanya Kambon, Agony of the Middle Passage Female, 2021.
Raku-fired clay, 22 1/4 x 9 x 8 1/4 inches.
ART
Akinsanya Kambon
Mohn Award
The Hammer Museum has awarded Akinsanya Kambon the Mohn Award 2023 for artistic excellence. In a joint statement about the winner, the jury said, "Akinsanya Kambon has developed a distinctive visual language that narrates episodes of violence, liberation, and revolution. His commitment to storytelling through form connects histories that span cities and continents through a Black diasporic and anti-imperialist lens. Through intricate ceramic vessels and wall reliefs that hold an intense emotional charge, the artist compels us to hold these complex histories close to the present as a call for radical social change and justice."
Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains
Image: © Kourtney Roy
PHOTOGRAPHY
Kourtney Roy and Mathias Delplanque
Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains
The photography and music duo of Kourtney Roy and Mathias Delplanque are the winners of the Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains. Canadian photographer Kourtney Roy has been developing a body of work over the last fifteen years in which she stages herself, revealing a world between fiction and reality, between humour and the absurd. Mathias Delplanque is an electronic music composer, producer, performer and sound designer for contemporary dance, theatre, film and contemporary art. Entitled Off Season, their project will tell the story of a road-trip along the Adriatic coast, around the Italian city of Rimini, and highlight what remains of it after the summer tourist season, all accompanied by music inspired by the 1970s.
