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Colvin Young Artists Award Winners
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Lut Rahman - Stockbridge
29 November 2002 - £300
A painter and printmaker at the start of his career. The grant enabled Lut to fully equip his home studio and to continue working as an artist. His prints are finely detailed and beautiful.
Lindsey Mann - Broughton
29 November 2002 - £500
A jewellery designer graduating from Middlesex University. With the award, Lindsey was able to equip her studio with a compressor and sandblasting machine, also metal punches. She now works from a studio in Oxford and has had many successful exhibitions. Her designs are highly original and her wallpaper collection is particularly wearable.
Alison Brooks - Broughton
1 December 2003 - £1,000
Alison is a potter who designs and makes contemporary ceramics. The award bought her a wheel and other materials to set up her studio. She graduated from Leeds University with a degree in Three Dimensional Design in 2002. This body of work comprises of thrown vessels exploring the marks a potter’s hand leaves on the clay, others are coil built vessels celebrating nature’s strengths.
Rebecca Speculo - Andover
14 May 2004 - £600
Becky is a ceramic artist working from a studio in Houghton. She has recently set up in business and has received a business incentive grant from Test Valley Borough Council. Her large-scale pots are inspired by the natural and organic surroundings and are exhibited alongside a collection of photographic prints. Rebecca has exhibited at Project Workshops open weekend 5-6 June 2004 and her studio at Houghton will be open as part of Open Art 2004.
Damien Hitchcock-Spencer
23 October 2006 - £778
The award will enable Damien, a jewellery designer from Andover, to set up a workshop with the basic tools and equipment at the beginning of his career. Damien is a young craftsman with very good technical skills in metals - silver, gold, stainless steel - and has developed an innovative range of cufflinks and accessories that have already attracted interest. Graduating from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in 2005, he is in the process of setting up a workshop from which to develop his jewellery. Damien commented: “Receiving this grant will make a tremendous difference allowing me to immediately start the journey from design to the realisation of a piece and to start making models.”
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