Turner Prize 2022
Image: Turner Prize 2022: Veronica Ryan.
Installation View at Tate Liverpool 2022.
Photo: © Tate Photography (Matt Greenwood).
ART
Veronica Ryan
Turner Prize
Veronica Ryan was awarded the Turner Prize 2022. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, said Ryan's work "lends new poetry" to materials that are "usually overlooked and usually thrown away." She was shortlisted for her exhibition Along a Spectrum, which took place at Spike Island in Bristol last year. The show featured forms cast in clay and bronze; sewn, tea-stained and dyed fabrics; and crocheted fishing line pouches filled with seeds, fruit stones, and skins. Similar forms and materials, which reference Ryan's Caribbean heritage, appeared in her contribution to the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Liverpool, which continues until 19 March 2023. These were displayed on the floor, on shelves, and suspended from crochet bags in a sunglow yellow room.
Prix SAM 2022
Image: Julian Charrière, Soothsayer, 2021. Anthracite coal, stainless steel, 240 x 130 x 130 cm.
Copyright the artist; Photo Jens Ziehe
ART
Julian Charrière
Prix SAM
Julian Charrière is the winner of the Prix SAM pour l’art contemporain 2022. The artist was presented by Jérôme Sans. The prize endowment will allow him to create an installation inviting the visitor to enter a bewitching volcanic landscape of magmatic sculptures, in which he will hear conversations from the Earth, thanks to a sound installation. For this new Stone Speaker project which will be presented at the Palais de Tokyo in 2024, he will travel to Java, Indonesia, to investigate the geothermal landscape of East Java, which is home to one of the most active volcanoes in the world.
Fashion Awards 2022
Image: Valentino Pink PP Collection, Fall/Winter 2022.
FASHION
Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino
Designer of the Year
Valentino creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, won the top prize at the Fashion Awards 2022, a fundraiser for the BFC Foundation. Piccioli made waves this year for his fall 2022 all-pink collection, sending models out clad in an intense magenta "Pink PP," a new Pantone color the designer created himself. "I wanted to work like a monochromatic artist," said the designer. "When looking at one color, you have to go deeper than the surface, to texture, cuts, silhouette, volume and detail. Because I’m not a stylist, I like to be a designer." He described pink as a color "that can have different sides," and noted how it can be sweet, sexy, powerful and rebellious.
World Architecture Festival 2022
Image: 3XN A/S, Quay Quarter Tower, Sydney, Australia, completed 2022.
ARCHITECTURE
Quay Quarter Tower by 3XN
World Building of the Year Winner
The Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney, Australia by Denmark-based 3XN, designed as a vertical village to create a sense of community, was awarded the World Building of the Year 2022. A radical renovation project of a typical rectangular office tower, the form retained the original columns and beams, while adopting a transformative look with the inclusion of a series of five stacked offset blocks giving it an unconventional look. Located near the Opera House in Sydney, the 206m high tower is an excellent example of adaptive reuse, in line with WAF’s commitment to tackling climate change through architecture.
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Freelands Award 2022
Image: Everlyn Nicodemus, Silent Strength 38, 1990.
Courtesy the artist and Richard Saltoun Gallery, London and Rome.
ART
National Galleries of Scotland with artist Everlyn Nicodemus
Freelands Award
Artist Everlyn Nicodemus and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh have won the seventh annual Freelands Award. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art will present Nicodemus’ first UK museum show from September 2024 to May 2025 in Edinburgh, where the artist has been based for fifteen years. Since the 1980s, Nicodemus has made cycles of paintings, collages and works on paper that explore violence against women, personal trauma and the isolation and dehumanisation of living within structural racism. Over the next two years, she will create a new series of large-scale oil paintings at her studio to be exhibited alongside historic works.
Earthshot Prize 2022
Image: Notpla, United Kingdom, winner in the category Build a Waste-free World.
DESIGN
Earthshot Prize
Five projects have been awarded the Earthshot Prize 2022, established by Prince William to uncover and scale the innovative solutions that will repair our planet within the next ten years. The Earthshot Prize winners each received a grant to scale their projects, with each tackling a different topic from regenerating nature and fighting climate change to eliminating pollution, whether at sea, on land or in the air. Among this year's winning projects is Notpla, a plastic packaging alternative that is made from seaweed, making it not just biodegradable but also edible, and an affordable flat-pack greenhouse by Indian start-up Kheyti.
RIBA House of the Year 2022
Image: David Kohn Architects, Red House, Dorset, United Kingdom, completed 2020. © Will Pryce
ARCHITECTURE
Red House by David Kohn Architects
RIBA House of the Year
The Red House, a contemporary new family house in the rolling hills of rural Dorset, designed by David Kohn Architects, has been named RIBA House of the Year 2022, awarded annually to the best architect-designed house in the UK. The house takes inspiration from the Arts and Crafts movement, reinterpreting the style in an intentionally provocative way. The house’s playful eccentricity, including oversized eaves, patterned red brickwork, and contrasting bold green details, jumps out - but this is consistently underpinned by outstanding craftsmanship and attention to detail.
