Congratulations to the following artists:
The winners were announced at The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle on Friday 28th June 2024
New Light Sculpture Prize 2024(sponsored by The Biscuit Factory Foundation)
Brian Shields – ‘FALLEN (John Clare, poet)
Sam Waters, Curator says:
‘Brian Shields is the winner of the New Light Biscuit Factory Sculpture Prize for ‘Fallen (John Clare, Poet)’. We found this piece enormously affecting and moving, which in its quietude speaks volumes about the human condition. It feels especially potent in these current moments of collective societal and environmental crisis, with the backstory of John Clare himself adding weight to the questions about the human and nature divide that this sculpture poses and embodies. This lowly lone figure is an emblem of the fraught gravity of human nature – our estrangement from one another and from the natural world – and we were touched by its wise and easily overlooked beauty.’
New Light Visitors’ Choice Award (sponsored by TIG) – voted for by visitors to The Gallery at Rheged
Andrew Tyzack – ‘Bombus Britannia’
