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WINNER OF JERWOOD PRINTMAKING TODAY PRIZE 2020


sophie charalambous

The Judging panel is delighted to announce Sophie Charalambous as this year's award winner.

"Choosing the overall winner for this year’s prize was, again, hugely difficult as each of the shortlisted candidates’ work, while visually very different from one another, all combined impact, originality, technical innovation and a great deal of individuality and personality. Any of the shortlist would have made a worthy winner. In the end, however, it is Sophie Charalambous’s huge monoprint which is this year’s winner. Very large in scale, it has the qualities of a fairly spontaneous drawing that perhaps just grew and grew. There is tremendous energy and vitality about it. Its subject matter of people criss-crossing a sunny square and going about their normal daily business - carrying bags of groceries - make it somehow especially poignant in these lockdown times. Its impressive scale was also highly ambitious for a relative newcomer to printmaking and the prize may enable the artist to develop her printmaking skills in unexpected and unpredictable directions." Anne Desmet, RA, Chair of the Judging Panel  

Sophie Charalambous "I am completely thrilled to have won this year's Jerwood/Printmaking Today Prize and wholeheartedly thank the judging panel and Rebecca Hossack Gallery for their support. I am relatively new to printmaking, so this prize is really encouraging and motivating to continue to experiment and develop my interest and love of the medium. Working in print has been transformative and liberating to other areas of my practice too through experiments in markmaking, texture and image creation and I feel excited to continue to develop my skills and ideas.. The winning piece "Coming and Goings" is part of an ongoing body of work exploring my Cypriot heritage and the prize will assist with the research and development of this."