The Public Speaks Winner - Claudia Borgna with Oasis
(Public vote: Claudia, Charlie and joint 3rd place runners up Glynn and David Booth)
The judges also awarded a ‘special commendation' to David Pratt, Charlie Hawkins, Claudia Borgna and Dawn van Gerven.
Congratulations to everyone.
Thankyou to everyone who voted for me
- fantastic to have achieved joint 3rd place.
I have learnt alot from being a finalist and the experience undoubtedly contributed to my recent curated commission for Wirksworth Art Festival. This was a sculptural intervention in St. Mary’s Church whose context was derived from the population census statistics for 1801, 1901 and 2001 - comparing the figures and converting into a percentage comparison. The sculpture physically models the statistics on the changing population of Wirksworth, physically manifesting them using tens of thousands of coloured balloons using 3 colours each representing the percentage for a different century. The choice of balloons is their association to celebration and the way I have used them alludes to the way Wirksworth has successfully re-invented itself through the centuries. Created using 45,000 balloons and 2 sculpture were suspended in the church belltower - one representing the past 1801,1901 and the other representing the present 2001 - an image of this one is seen below. For more images and to keep in touch with my work please visit my website.
www.davidbooth.uk.com