The History of newcontemporaries

History of the Exhibition

1949-1970

The annual exhibition was first set up in 1949, based on an initial idea by Carel Weight for the British Society of Artists Galleries and known as Young Contemporaries. In the early years the exhibition went from strength to strength, gathering much critical and audience attention. Until the 1969 exhibition, artists and art specialists had selected Young Contemporaries. In 1969 and during the controversial exhibition of 1970 at the Royal Academy, students controlled selection themselves. The 1970 exhibition was the last for a few years.

1974-1986

In 1973, tutors from some London colleges - including Gillian Ayres, Paul Huxley and William Tucker - banded together to revive the exhibition. A new constitution was drawn up. The exhibition was renamed New Contemporaries and its first showing took place at Camden Arts Centre in 1974.

By the 1980s, the exhibition was held regularly at the ICA and a Permanent Committee supported the exhibition management until 1983. Each year, the exhibition was selected and organised by students. The last exhibition, before running out of steam, was racked by financial problems, leaving the student organisers with personal debt. It was finally disbanded in 1986. The 1986 catalogue contained a historical introduction by Andrew Lambirth, 'New Contemporaries Past and Present'.

1988-Present

In 1987 the Arts Council of Great Britain commissioned a feasibility report on New Contemporaries to look into the future viability of the exhibition. The report was published in 1988 by Richard Shone, who then became the Chair of a Volunteer Board of Directors, and a new constitution and new structure for the organisation was established. For the first time, the exhibition was supported by professional administration and adopted a model of curatorial and college independence, inviting an outside team of selectors from the arts profession each year. The exhibition was relaunched at the ICA in 1989 and toured to four regional centres. From 1989-1994, the exhibition was sponsored by British Telecom and from 2000-2006 is sponsored by Bloomberg. Apart from 1995, due to the absence of a sponsor, the exhibition has maintained an annual presence. In 1996, the exhibition attracted the patronage of James Moores and a commitment to the city of Liverpool, premiering every two years as part of the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art. New Contemporaries is also a revenue client of Arts Council England. Since 1995, the administration has been based in Manchester.

History of Selectors and Artists

2006	Selectors Angus Fairhurst Paul Noble Alison Wilding
	Artists Holly Antrum Salvatore Arancio Athanasios Argianas Joshua Balgos Dafni Barbageorgopoulou Becky Beasley Terence Besmirch Kiran Kaur Brar Sarah Bridgland Andrea Buttner Youngmi Chun Stephen Connolly Susan Ellery Jennifer Evans Jessie Flood Paddock John Hughes Andy Jackson Chiho Kato Morag Keil Katherine Kicinski Edwin Li Neil McNally Nicholas Mobbs Katy Moran Laura Morrison Yuko Nasu Tom Price Florian Roithmayr Lois Rowe Robert Rush Henrietta Simson Matthew Smith Akiko and Masako Takada Akiko Takizawa Douglas White Jeremy Willett
2005	Selectors Jeremy Akerman Phil Collins Jane and Louise Wilson
	Artists Mark Boulos Dwight Clarke Craig Coulthard Nelson Crespo Katie Davies Jenny Dunseath Erica Eyres Josephine Flynn Andrew Graves Anne Kathrin Greiner Hideko Inoue Takahiro Iwasaki Elizabeth Lee Stuart McCaffer Richard Mosse Clive Murphy Beltran Obregon Robert Orchardson Bruno Pacheco Giles Perry Muzi Quawson Charlotte Rea Jaume S Sabater Garau Martina Schmuecker Payam Sharifi Chris Smith Robert Stone Christopher Walker Craig Wilson
2004	Selectors Kate Bush Dinos Chapman Tacita Dean Brian Griffiths
	Artists Oliver Bancroft Thomas Bangsted David Blandy Margarita Bofiliou Dave Carbone Lali Chetwynd Petros Chrisostomou Joe Clark James Connelly Tessa Farmer Oriana Fox Sarah Gilder Anton Goldenstein Mauricio Guillen Thomas Hylander Yvonne Jones Samson Kambalu Ahn Kang-hyun Károly Keserü Heidi Kilpelainen Steven Lowery Nicky Magliulo Gary McDonald Sarah Michael Thomas Needham Robert Nicol David Rowland Michael Sailstorfer Margaret Salmon Heiko Tiemann Douglas White Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
2003	Selectors JJ Charlesworth Cerith Wyn Evans Hayley Newman Rebecca Warren
	Artists Catharina Barich Christopher Barr Rodrigo Cienfuegos Daniel G Cramer Ben Crane Laurence Elliot Eddie Farrell Laurin Federlein Dimitris Foutris Michael Fullerton Karen Grainger Juri Hashimoto Sigrid Holmwood Mustafa Hulusi Seb Humphrys Esteban Igartua Wendy Lewis Mark McGowan Anna Mitchell Stephen Peirce Peter Peri Martin Poyner Abigail Reynolds Hannah Rickards Andrew Rucklidge Ben Sadler Masako Sayer Jamie Shovlin JJ Stevens Emma Tod Mathew Weir Ben Woodeson
2002	Selectors Graham Gussin Patrick Keiller Sarah Lucas
	Artists Helen Barron Kiera Bennett Nial Blankley Balint Bolygo Charlotte Brisland Kieran Brown Carol Burtt Mathieu Copeland Ruth Ewan Anna Fasshauer Jachym Fleig Babak Ghazi Rob Grose Lesley Halliwell Tom Hanbury and Meiro Koizumi Isaac Layish and Irit Garty Darren Marshall Ben Mayman Helen McCrorie Lucinda Metcalfe Matt O'Dell Raul Ortega Andrew Palmer Edd Pearman Samuel Porritt Nathaniel Rackowe Hiraki Sawa Yak Beow Seah Daniel Sinsel John Spiteri Eva Stenram John Summers Angus Wyatt
2001	Selectors Chris Ofili Mike Nelson Jennifer Higgie
	Artists Jennifer Allen Tolia Astakhishvili Eve Blackwood Matthew Brotherhood Varda Caivano James Coupe Ryan Doolan Jack Duplock Bernhard Frankel Laura Green Sophie von Hellermann Lizzie Hughes James Hutchinson Ruth Iliffe Francis Lamb On-Yee Lo Lee Mackinnon Eline McGeorge Harold Offeh Matias Ring Aura Satz Andro Semeiko Conrad Shawcross Daniel Silver Twenteenth Century Jessica Warboys Michelle Williams
2000	Selectors Sarah Kent Jeremy Millar Gavin Turk
	Artists John Askew Anna Barriball Jennifer Beattie Richard Bradbury Gail Burton Don Bury Josephine Butler Justin Carter Phil Collins Mike Cooter Robert Currie Eric Alistair Hadley Ilana Halperin Lucy Harrison Saron Hughes James Ireland Nikolaj Bendix and Skyum Larsen Jeffrey Ty Lee Johannes Maier Andrew Mania Marta Marce Nathaniel Mellors Miyako Narita Mick Peter Ben Pruskin Jewyo Rhii Hideatsu Shiba Tomoaki Suzuki Melanie Titmuss Beata Veszely Emily Wardill Edward Weldon
1999	Selectors Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Susan Hiller Keith Tyson
	Artists Athanasios Argianas Charlie Birch David Blandy Cleo Broda KR Buxey Kentaro Chiba Ben Cook Richard Cuerden Andrew Currie Layla Curtis Jane Fox Clare Gasson Jana Haldrich David Harding Julie Henry Ian Kiaer Natasha Kidd Nick Laessing Kenny Macleod Stefanie Marshall Tim Meara Nathaniel Mellors Luke Oxley Katie Pratt Peter Richards Gaylie Runciman DJ Simpson Louise Spence Jayne Stokes Francis Summers Julian Walker Nicole Wermers
1998	Selectors Phyllida Barlow Eddie Berg Christine Hohenbuchler Adrian Searle
supported by Nigel Moores Family Charitable Foundation	Artists Fabienne Audeoud Gisel Carriconde Azevedo Heike Baranowsky Claire Baxter Gillian Carnegie John Patrick Clayman Nigel Cooke Lisa Daniels Daniel Fox Denis Glaser Jonathan Gowing Claudio Guarino Ole Hagen Max Hymes Yasu Ichige Emma Kay Waseem Khan Jo Lansley and Helen Bendon Graham Little Richard McRae Paul Morrison Michaela Muller Miyako Narita Sophy Rickett Karin Ruggaber Saki Satom Nike Savvas Alexandra Sell George Shaw Ronald Max Vollmer Caroline Warde Tom Woolford Sonja Zelic
1997	Selectors Sarat Maharaj Hans Ulrich Obrist Gillian Wearing
sponsored by Beck's Bier	Artists Javier Flores Blanquet Jemima Brown Sarah Dobai Keith Farquhar Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard Ana Genoves Chris Gibbons Pedro Gomes Dryden Goodwin Brian Cyril Griffiths Len Horsey Katherine Mckee Seamus Nicolson O (Amy Cheung) Steve Ouditt Frankie Sinclair Stephen Stephen
1996	Selectors Maria de Corral Richard Stokes Mark Wallinger
with the support of the Nigel Moores Family Charitable Foundation	Artists Jeremy Akerman Liz Arnold Sybille Berger Jane Brennan James Chinneck Jason Coburn John Coffey Martin Cole Alan Currall Xenia K Dieroff Ashley Elliott Mark Hammond Alexis Harding Jun Hasegawa Nicky Hoberman Jamie Holman Louise Hopkins Rob Hunter Chantal Joffe Philip Jones Sarah Jones Roger Kelly Sue Kennington Leeds United Javier Marchan Corrado Morgana Hayley Newman Tim Noble Monika Oechsler Gary Perkins Monika Pirch Rosemary Toner Alex Veness
1994	Selectors Barry Barker Patricia Bickers Rachel Whiteread
sponsored by British Telecom	Artists Fiona Banner Mark Cannon Miles Chalcroft Alberto Ciravegna Frauke Eigen Ruth Farrington Kerry Filer Milo Garcia Lucy Gunning Nicholas Harris Karen Henderson Michael Kay Mona Kher Christine Kummer Kerry Kyriacou Dez Lawrence Terry Loane Geraldine Marks Andrew Millar Corrado Morgana Ruth Mylius Mariele Neudecker David Oates Effie Paleologou Hadrian Piggot Vangelis Piliarides Anita Ronke Diane Lorenzo Saxby Mike Silva Bob and Roberta Smith David Spellor Kerry Stewart Jon Thomson Robert Wyatt
1993	Selectors Willie Doherty Stuart Morgan Caroline Russell
sponsored by British Telecom	Artists Andrew Bannister Bernadette Bentley Jason Brooks Marcus Coates Martine Coker Stuart Cumberland Laura Daley Edwin David Mark Dean Edward Harper Jaki Irvine Adrian Izzard Sivan Lewin Edward Lipski Mike Nelson Chris Ofili Mark Pimlott Porchia Gillian Potkins Ian Pratt Thomas Sharpe Richard Squires Simon Starling Keith Stutter Gillian Wearing Graham Westfield Wilson Twins
1992	Selectors Guy Brett Derek Jarman Marina Warner
sponsored by British Telecom	Artists Gang Chen Russell Coleman Siobhan Davies Tacita Dean X.K. Dieroff Katherine Dowson Francesca Fuchs Angela Gill Jasmine Green Permindar Kaur Andrea Lansley Theresa Limbrick Johnny Magee Parul Modha Ann O Brien Barnaby O'Rourke Joanne Pearson Ines Rae Lisa Richardson Louise Short Josephine Thom Tanja Ury
1990/1	Selectors Marianne Brouwer Simon Herbert (video) Franz Kaiser Alastair MacLennan
sponsored by British Telecom	Artists Victoria Aldred Dilys Bidewell James Brook Glenn Brown Brighid Lowe John Miller Joanna Moss Henry Obuabang Mark Pearson Graham Ramsay and Gavin Bird Laura Thompson Valerie Walkerdine Jason Wallis-Johnson Erlend Williamson Hilary Wilson
1989	Selectors Iwona Blazwick Sacha Craddock Nicholas Logsdail Veronica Ryan Jon Thompson Richard Wilson
sponsored by British Telecom	Artists Tom Benson Louise Birtles Glenn Brown Jon Butterworth Alan Carter Nick Cass Jeremy Cole Barry Cook Mirri Damer Maggie Ellenby David Foster Tom Freeston Jeremy R Glogan Sehnaz Hanslot Tierry Hauch Martin Haycock Michael Hickling Damien Hirst John Howard Alison Jones Pat Kaufman Darren Logo Alex Landrum Abigail Lane Michael Langton David Leapman Mark Leckey Julian Lee Sarah Low Brighid Lowe Nicholas May Michael Minnis Jane Ormerod Andrew Penketh Michele Rosaus Andreas Ruthi David J Smith Michael J Smith Maud Sulter Marcus Taylor Mike Turner Anne-Marie Watkins Veronica Wilton Martha McLean Sarah Pucill Laura Thompson

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