Issue 1757 Arts

Blyth Centre 2020 Art Awards

Felix arts continues its feature of the winners of this years Blyth Art Fellowship and Blyth Art Award, and their artwork.

Vaidhiswaran Ramesh

13 Dec 2020 — 2 min read

About the AwardsBlyth Art FellowshipThe fellowship is presented to students who have shown both exceptional talent and incredible commitment to their creative practices alongside their study at Imperial College. The fellowship offers each holder £500 materials bursary, a free place on the Arts/Short courses drawing class, a free Tate card, and professional mentoring support from a range of artists.Blyth Art AwardThe award is presented to students who have shown great talent and dedication to developing their creative practice alongside their study at Imperial College. Each Art Awardee receives a £50 materials budget and a mentoring tutorial with a professional artist.Unlike any other professional Art Fellowship, the tutors are bespoke sourced after the interviews in response to each student’s work to maximise on developing each individual’s creative practice.

2020 Blyth Centre Art Award Winner

Blyth Art Fellowship

1. Photographer Louie Hext (Physics UG) 2. Artist Cleo Zhang (Life Sciences UG)

Blyth Art Award

1. Artist Freddie Hong (Engineering Research PG)
2. Painter Grace Zhang (Earth Science & Engineering UG)
3. Photographer George Dixon Dray (Mechanical Engineering UG)
4. Painter Santhosh Thavarajasingam (Medicine UG)

This week we feature Art work by Louie Hext (Physics UG) - winner of the 2020 Blyth Art Fellowship.

Hk Shell Depot — Photo: Paddy Briggs, Public Domain

Blyth 2 Louie Hext — Untitled, from the Second Hand Portraits series, 2019, Analogue photography, 35mm film negative - By Louie Hext

This is a piece I produced while taking some test images for a series called “second-hand portraits”. The series will involve taking portraits of photographers while they work using or through secondary surfaces. This is one of the main projects the Blyth fellowship will be helping me with. Unfortunately, photographing others isn’t really possible right now so I’ve been focusing on self-portraits instead. I initially heard about the fellowship through the Blyth Gallery mailing list and applied on a whim as I hadn’t really shared my work in a “fine-art” setting before and so, getting the fellowship and having the external validation gave me a lot more confidence in my projects.
I haven’t had any of the mentoring sessions yet but I’ve looked at the artists’ work and I think they’re going to be incredibly useful as they’re tailored to your medium. The art supply funding has been particularly useful as analogue photography tends to get expensive.

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