CELESTE ART PRIZE 2007

Artists award the second Celeste Art Prize on Sunday 27 May during the course of the Celeste Art Prize finalists' exhibition held at T2, The Old Truman Brewery, London, from 21 to 27 May 2007.

The 60 finalists' works on exhbition were selected by the MFA Curatorial Programme at Goldsmiths' College, London, from a total of 918 works presented in 2007. During the course of the afternoon all 60 finalists voted for their preferred works in the two prize categories: Artist and Student.


Shane Bradford - London
wins the Professional Artist Prize £10,000

Moths - Gloss paint, darts, model soldiers/planes and lightbulb 152.4cmx152.4cm, 2006-ongoing

Rachel Thorlby - London
wins the Student Artist Prize £5,000

Box - Cardboard box, plaster and oil paint
31cmx23cmx18cm, 2006



Neil McNally - Pontypool Gwent
wins the Public Online Vote £2,000

Dirk Bogarde - Oil, acrylic, gouache, photograph, photocopy, blue tack and oil on linen, 132cmx177.8cm, 2006

VIDEOS

Video credit Roberto Baldi
 

Shane Bradford
Interview with the winner of the Artist prize




Rachel Thorlby
Interview with the winner of the Student prize

Final exhibition
T2, Truman Brewery


Prizegiving - Inroduction by Celeste Art Prize organiser, Sara Pearce, followed by speeches by Zach Leonard, Publisher of Times Online, and by Ben Hanly, Lyon & Turnbull


PHOTOS OF THE EXHIBITION
Photo credit Irina Kalashnikova and Waltraud Redl