Fru Tholstrup and Don McCullin join selectors for the Marshwood Arts Awards and John Hubbard Prize 2023 Art consultant, curator, and co-founder of the Sequested Prize, Fru Tholstrup, along with iconic photographer Don McCullin are the first selectors to be announced for this year’s Marshwood Arts Awards and John Hubbard Prize.Known for her role in …
Sculpture Born in London,1951 into a family of artists and writers. Widely travelled in her youth Emily worked with the late Simon Jeffes of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra in the 70s and 80s. She also worked and exhibited as a painter, until the 80s, when she began carving stone. Since then Emily Young has worked …
Photography 1929 – 2014. English photographer Roger Mayne was most famous for his documentation of the children of Southam Street, London. In the early 1950s he made photographic portraits of many residents in the artist’s-colony town of St. Ives, Cornwall. Roger moved to Lyme Regis, Dorset in 1975. A major exhibition of his portraits was …
Textiles Born in 1950, Caroline trained at the Central School of Art and Design, London. Public collections that hold examples of her work include the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Caroline was the winner of the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Textiles in 1997. …
Photography Based in Somerset, Tim MacPherson is a highly renowned British photographer whose work has featured in a variety of publications including The Sunday Times, GQ, and Tatler.Amongst his many accolades Tim has won an Association of Photographers Award four times. His portfolio is one of vibrant, bright concepts, with brilliantly imaginative shots of children …
Painting/Drawing After reading English at Harvard, John Hubbard developed an interest in Chinese and Japanese art whilst working for the US army in Japan. He has lived in Dorset since 1961 and his unique style of landscape painting fuses elements of Chinese painting and contemporary abstraction within the tradition of late 19th century European landscape …
Design Cressida Granger is the owner of Mathmos, the Poole based company best known for their lava lamps. Mathmos was founded in 1963 and is proud to celebrate 50 years of British production this year. During the 1990s, millions of lava lamps were produced in Dorset and sold throughout the world. As an acknowledgment of …
Ceramics & Glass Christopher studied BA (Hons) 3D Design Ceramics at the University of the West of England. After graduating he worked for a number of studio potteries around the UK including the Dartington Pottery in Devon and Edinbane Pottery, Scotland. Alongside this he developed his own practice as a ceramicist before returning to study …
Furniture & Works in Wood Rupert Senior is one of the UK’s foremost bespoke furniture designers and makers. He is passionate about what he does, working together with his enthusiastic clients to produce contemporary pieces of understated style and beauty. Rupert’s goal is to create unique furniture with a simplicity and honesty of form and …
Fashion & Textiles Harriet Wallace-Jones trained at Central St Martin’s, going on to take a MA in Weaving at the Royal College of Art. It was during her university years she met her business partner Emma Sewell. Wallace Sewell create innovative woven fabrics using vibrant stripes and abstract designs in a variety of materials, from …