Lowes Dickenson
Prize 2012
Exhibition
22 November – 14 December 2012
Artists and writers:
Josie Ayres, Michael Baker, Beate Bechtold, Elizabeth Bordass, Amanda Cannon, Melissa Caplan, Fionnuala Condell Dominic Delargy Clifford Gabb Alfonso Jimenez Primoz Klanjsek
Scarlett Mannish, Marlene Martinez, Carl Nolan, Matthew Parker Bekki Perriman Andrea Popa Konstantinos Primerakis
The working men’s college is pleased to present the work of writers and artists taking part in this years Lowes Dickinson Award. The Working Men’s College offers an annual £1000 pound Art prize for its students called the Lowes Dickinson Award. His children also established a travel award for students in his memory.
Lowes Cato Dickinson (27 November 1819 – 15 December 1908) was a portrait painter and Christian socialist. He taught drawing with Ruskin and Rossetti. And was a founder of the Working Men’s College in London. He corresponded and worked with the central participants of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,[6] lecturing with both Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Ruskin.[1] With other Christian Socialists, Dickinson founded the Working Men’s College, London, in 1854,[7] a college to provide a liberal education for artisans. He was an enthusiastic follower of the Christian socialist movement, and painted other Christian Socialists including Charles Kingsley,[8] Thomas Hughes, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, John Westlake, Frederick James Furnivall, Richard Buckley Litchfield, John Llewelyn Davies, and the movement’s founder, F.D.Maurice[7]
Other subjects for portraits included Queen Victoria, the Prime Minister and his cabinet, George Eliot. His papers are at Princeton,[1] Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Dickinson has numerous paintings in the National Portrait Gallery in London, including his group painting of Gladstone‘s 1868 cabinet pictured in the cabinet room of 10 Downing Street.[4]
List of works
Clockwise from Lowes Dickenson wall sign
Visual art works
Wall and floor
Clifford Gabb
Spiral
In Progress
Acrylic on Paper
1000 x 705mm
Foundation Degree Art and Design Professional Practice
Amanda Cannon
Punk meets Pre-Raphaelite beauty, old Victoriana meets the new via digital process 2011/12
Albimin photographic print using c4 processing
Approx. 60 x 45cm
Fashion design
Celine Samson
Who do we think we are 2012
4 x prints
80 x 50 cm
Foundation Degree Art and Design Professional Practice
Bekki Perriman
Puddles 2012
3 x Digital colour photographic prints
approx 15 x 30 cm
Foundation Degree Art and Design Professional Practice
Sandra Robinson
Untitled 2012
approx. 3 x 2 ‘
Installation of mixed media and ‘rubbish’ on plinth
Sculpture
Melissa Caplan
Giant Bra 2012
Mixed media, treated fabric, 3D hanging bra
Approx. 80 cm x 90 cm
Foundation Degree Art and Design Professional Practice
Alessandro Carboni
Plastic 2012
Melted plastic, glue and spray paint
1.7m x 60cm
Foundation Degree Art and Design Professional Practice
Melissa Caplan
traffic cone flower 2012
plastic traffic cone sculpture
approx. 40 x 20 cm
Foundation Degree Art and Design Professional Practice
In Cabinet
Rosh Keegan
Bag for Life 2011
Ceramic figure
Approx. 30 x 10 cm
Fired clay, glazed with applied gold leaf and other media
ceramics
Marysia Kratimenos
There is no wealth like life (from John Ruskin) 2012
Aron the snow leopard
Framed Drawing on velour
Botanical drawing
Elizabeth Bordass
Tigers
Ceramic tigers x 2 fired and glazed
41 x 28 cm
and 15 x 10 cm
ceramics
Stories on white wall
Creative writing unless stated otherwise
Dominic Delargy
Species: Autographus Hunterus 2012
Matthew Parker
Looking at my Watch 2012
Andrea Popa
Seizing Opportunities 2012
Linda Winter
Thoughts on a beginning 2012
Marlene Martinez
Falling from grace 2012
Poems on brick wall
Creative Writing
Michael Baker
Walkies 2012
Fionnuala Condell
The journey 2012
Sara Reyes-Espinoza
I am Mother Earth 2012
Foundation Diploma Art and Design
Alfonso Jimenez
the traveller 2012
Primoz Klanjsek
Collision 2012
Foundation Diploma Art and Design
Sebiha Macit
A Sleeper’s Vision 2012
Foundation Diploma Art and Design
Carl Nolan
I am a fire place 2012
Performance
Not represented in exhibition but included in prize
Konstantinos Primerakis
Piano Performance
In small cabinets
Beate Bechtold
Steiff bear 2011
Ceramic figure approx. 35 x 15 cm
Earthstone and terracotta, fired, glazed and unglazed
Amanda Cannon
Digitalised pin hole camera photograph 4 x 6”
Frame and cardboard box
And
Rowan Arts catalogues documenting hackney life portraits
the Ruskin Gallery 