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Rochelle School, Club Row The selected artists for 2008 are: Pio Abad Adam Ajina Allsopp and Weir Guler Ates Steve Bishop Paul Bratt Stewart Cliff Beth Collar Alexia de Ville de Goyet Joe Doldon Jeremy Evans Chris Hanlon Anwen Handmer Gabriel Hartley Gerd Hasler Neil Hedger Tyler Hilton Sam Holden Alexander Hudson Peter Joslyn Emmanuel Kazi Kakai Eva Kalpadaki Katharina Kiebacher Rinat Kotler Raakhee Lakhtaria Andrew Larkin Ian Law Little Whitehead Joseph Long Jo Longhurst Ellen Macdonald Allison Maletz Jane Maughan Sarah Michael Haroon Mirza Yoca Muta Sachiyo Nishimura Gemma Nelson Joep Overtoom Yo Okada Heather Phillipson Patricia Pinsker Giles Ripley Constance Slaughter Rita Soromenho Naomi St Clair-Clarke David Stearn Nicholas Tayler Esther Teichmann David Theobald Jason Underhill Manuel Vazquez Lara Viana Jane Ward Anita Wernstrom- Pitcher Paul Westcombe Jeanine Woollard [images coming soon] New Contemporaries received 1400 applications this year, and 57 artists have been selected to take part in an exhibition that will open at the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Arts in September, and tour to London. Thanks to the selectors this year: Ken Lum, from Vancouver, Canada, brought a learned and rigorous perspective to the selection process. Artist, theorist, writer, curator and lecturer, Ken has exhibited his work throughout Canada, the US and Europe and been a teacher in the Fine Art Department, University of British Columbia since 1989. The celebrated photographer Richard Billingham was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2001 and is a lecturer in the Art Department at the University of Gloucester. His series “Zoo”, based on childhood visits to Dudley Zoo, was recently exhibited at Compton Verney Gallery, and he is currently working on a feature film. A star of the British Art Show 4 in 1995, artist Ceal Floyer is known for her interventions and interpretations of the everyday, and her insight and sense of humour shone throughout the selection process. She lives and works in Berlin. |
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