Drawing Now Prize 2021
Image: Nicolas Daubanes, Prison Saint-Michel, Toulouse, magnetized steel powder wall drawing, 200x280 cm, 2019. Picture from "Confinement : Politics of Space and Bodies" exhibition, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, 2019.
ART
Nicolas Daubanes
Drawing Now Prize
Nicolas Daubanes has won the Drawing Now Prize 2021, which celebrated its 10th anniversary. He has been working on the prison world (drawings, installations, videos) for nearly 10 years, resulting from immersive residencies in prisons. From his drawings with iron filings to monumental installations of concrete sabotaged with sugar, Nicolas Daubanes is interested in the combined moment of suspension and fall. For the artist it is a question of seeing before the fall, before the ruin, the vital impulse.
International Woolmark Prize 2021
Image: Matty Bovan's Woolmark Prize Collection "Ode to the Sea". © Ibrahem Hasan
FASHION
Matty Bovan
International Woolmark Prize
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Karl Lagerfeld Award for Innovation
Matty Bovan has won the International Woolmark Prize 2021 with his collection "Ode to the sea". He has been awarded the main prize as well as the Karl Lagerfeld Award for Innovation. "He is pure fashion, he makes me dream and he reminds me of a young Vivienne Westwood or a John Galliano and we desperately need that sort of designer in the fashion world of today." said Carine Roitfeld. Praised for his technically advanced stunning jacquard weave designs, unique style, intricate designs which tell a story, advanced understanding of both knit and weave techniques, strong colour combinations and sustainable approach to local sourcing and production, Bovan’s sensibility and conceptual approach to fashion impressed the judges.
About the International Woolmark Prize
Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2021
Image: Jay Roode, Tree of life. Canon 5D Mark III with 100-400mm lens. 1/800th, f/9, ISO 250.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jay Roode
Landscapes Category
Jay Roode won the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year Prize in the Landscapes Category. Suspended in time, a sense of waiting pervades this valley where nothing seems to have happened for a thousand years. The shadow of an ancient Camel Thorn tree reaches out, like a blackened hand to the delicate tracings of Namibia’s Tsauchab River, yearning for the life that once was.
About the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year
Women in Motion Prize 2021
Image: Liz Johnson Artur, Black Balloon Archive, Untitled, 2018.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Liz Johnson Artur
Women in Motion Prize
Liz Johnson Artur has won the Women in Motion Prize for photography 2021. The prize is awarded by Les Rencontres de la Photoraphie d'Arles in partnership with Kering. Since 1991, Liz Johnson Artur has assembled images devoted to the African Diaspora around the world, brought together under the name Black Balloon Archive. Her dynamic documentary photographs, in color or black and white, paint a complex picture of Black identities. She photographs human beings and uses her work to tell stories. "What interests me are people" she said, "people whom I don't see represented anywhere."
