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
Congratulations David, you must be so pleased.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes Alison Yule