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The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize
The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize seeks to discover talented young
writers on contemporary art, with the winner receiving £1,000 and the
opportunity to publish a review of a contemporary art exhibition in The
Burlington Magazine.
Since its founding in 1903, The Burlington Magazine has always considered the
art of the present to be as worthy of study as the art of the past. The
Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize advances our commitment to the study
of contemporary art by encouraging aspiring young writers to critically engage
with its forms and concepts. The Prize promotes clear, concise and
well-structured writing that is able to navigate sophisticated ideas without
recourse to over-complex language.
2017 Prize
The judges of the 2017 Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize are Julia
Peyton-Jones and Martin Caiger-Smith, assisted by Jonathan Vernon and Martha
Barratt of The Burlington Magazine.
Julia Peyton-Jones is the former Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London
(1991–2016). During her twenty-five year tenure she managed their
transformation into an internationally recognised venue for contemporary art.
In 2000 she pioneered the Galleries’ annual Pavilion commission, which became
an international barometer for experiment in architecture. Peyton-Jones also
oversaw the Galleries’ major renovation in 1998 and expansion with the opening
of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in 2013. Having been trained as a painter at
the Royal College of Art (1975–78), Peyton-Jones worked as an artist for ten
years before joining London’s Hayward Gallery as a curator (1988–91). She was
awarded an OBE in 2003 and a DBE in 2016.
Martin Caiger-Smith has been Head of the MA Programme Curating the Art Museum
at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, since 2007. Prior to this he served
as Curator (1991–96), Head of Exhibitions (1996–2005) and Acting Director
(2005/06) at the Hayward Gallery, London. The many exhibitions he curated and
organised there include The Epic and the Everyday: Contemporary Photographic
Art (1994) and major retrospectives devoted to Anish Kapoor (1998), Roy
Lichtenstein (2004) and Dan Flavin (2006). He continues to curate exhibitions,
advise on curatorial programmes and write on contemporary art, photography and
exhibitions for a range of publications. He is currently working on a monograph
on Antony Gormley, to be published by Rizzoli, New York.
Each contender will be offered a digital subscription to the Magazine at a
specially reduced price, providing unlimited access to the Magazine’s archive
as well as all the latest articles and reviews.
The deadline for submissions is Monday 27th February 2017
The winner of the Prize will be announced in May 2017
For more information please contact Lisa Stein at [email protected]
Submission Requirements
Contenders – who must be no older than 35 years of age and have published no
more than 6 exhibition reviews – should submit one unpublished review of a
contemporary art exhibition, no more than 1000 words in length with up to three
low-resolution images. ‘Contemporary’ is defined as art produced since 2000.
The submitted review must be written in English (although the art considered
may be international) and emailed as a Word document, clearly stating the name,
age, country of residence and occupation of the writer, to
[email protected].
Additional Material
In order to help contenders we have provided three reviews of contemporary art
exhibitions to serve as examples. PDFs can be downloaded from the links below.
1. Marlene Dumas, by James Cahill (May 2015)
2. Venice Biennale, by Martha Barratt (September 2015)
3. Electronic Superhighway, by Julian Stallabrass (April 2016)
Past Winners and Judges
2012
The inaugural Prize was judged by current Director of the National Portrait
Gallery, Nicholas Cullinan, and Anna Lovatt, currently the Marguerite Hoffman
Scholar in Residence at the SMU Meadows School of Art, Dallas, and a former
lecturer at the University of Nottingham and the University of Manchester. The
winner was Isabella Maidment, who chose to write about an exhibition of work by
Lygia Pape at the Serpentine Gallery, London. Isabella has since reviewed
several exhibitions for the Magazine, received her doctorate from University
College London and became Assistant Curator of Performance at Tate in 2016.
Read Isabella’s review of the 2012 Liverpool Biennial.
2013
Judged by the artist Dexter Dalwood and Daniel F. Herrmann, Eisler Curator &
Head of Curatorial Studies at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, the 2013 Prize
was awarded to Jenna Krumminga for her review of photographs by Larry Clark at
C/O Berlin. Jenna reviewed an exhibition on photography and the American Civil
War at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, for the Magazine’s August 2013
issue.
2015
After a year’s hiatus, the 2015 Prize was judged by the Director of the
Contemporary Art Society, Caroline Douglas, and arts writer Michael Bracewell.
The winner was Helena Anderson, who wrote about an Olga Chernysheva show at
Pace Gallery, London. Helena is the Gallery Manager at Deborah Gage (Works of
Art) Ltd. and published a review of the Imperial War Museum’s Lee Miller
retrospective in the April 2016 issue of the Magazine.
2016
The 2016 Prize garnered the largest number of entries received to date, with
over 130 submitted from dozens of countries across several continents. The
overall standard of the entries was described as ‘very impressive’ by the
judges, Alex Farquharson, the Director of Tate Britain, and Lynne Cooke,
Curator of Special Projects in Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C. The winner was Luke Naessens, an Exhibitions Assistant at
Barbican Art Gallery. Luke chose to write about Sculpture 4tet, an exhibition
of sculptures by Luciano Fabro, Jean-Luc Moulène, Bruce Nauman and Danh Võ held
at Marian Goodman Gallery, London.
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