Versailles: Grand Canal, October 2012

Versailles: The Green Carpet, October 2012

Lumen Prize 2012 short list

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I’m thrilled to share the news that one of my iPhone/iPad collages has reached the short list in this year’s Lumen Prize for digital arts.

The Lumen Prize “is an international award that celebrates the very best fine art created digitally.” The aim of its founders is “to focus the world’s attention on this exciting, emerging genre of fine art through a curated competition that will find the very best examples of digitally-created art and then take this work on a global tour…It is our belief that the power of art can promote both change and social progress. In addition to accepting entries from anywhere in the world, we will also seek out artists in low income and conflict-affected countries and communities. To assist in this outreach, we are working with Peace Direct, a registered charity, which has links to local arts and cultural groups in many of these areas.”

The Lumen Prize Exhibition – comprising the Lumen Prize winners, the Exhibition 50 and the People’s Choice winner, will start travelling the world in January 2013 and the following dates are already confirmed:

January 21-28:   London, Gallery 27, Cork Street

February, 2013:  Latvia, Robert’s Books

February 2013:    Shanghai, FQ Projects

March 2013:    Hong Kong, Plum Blossoms Art Gallery

A jury panel of  artists, academics and critics selected the shortlist of 20, and the Prize winner, runner-up, and finalist will be announced on October 19, 2012 at Cardiff City Hall, Wales.

The gallery of short listed artworks can be viewed HERE.

The Lost Child

A Christening Robe
Each tiny stitch, by hand
Laid in a drawer
Wrapped in layers of tissue
Waiting…

Caught

Caught on an old cobweb
Spun across the edge of the pond
At the bottom of my garden
Gloucestershire, England

The End Of Summer

Several weeks ago now,
On Leckhampton Hill, Gloucestershire,
The last two seeds on a dried flowerhead of Queen Anne’s Lace.
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