The Jarman Award
Film London and Channel 4 in association with the Whitechapel Gallery, are delighted to announce Lindsay Seers as the winner of this year's prestigious Jarman Award.
Seers was selected from a shortlist comprised of four highly distinctive and creative artists: partners Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Simon Martin, Lindsay Seers and Stephen Sutcliffe.
Inspired by visionary avant-garde film-maker Derek Jarman, The Jarman Award was launched by Film London through the FLAMIN (Film London Artists' Moving Image Network) in 2008, in partnership with Channel 4. This award was introduced to recognise artists working with the moving image whose work, like Jarman's, resist conventional definition, encompassing innovation and excellence.
A short tour of screening and performance events showcasing work by the four artists shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2009 took place at major arts centres across the UK in the run up to the announcement of this year's winner. More information on the Jarman Award Tour.
The winner of the 2009 Jarman Award received a £10,000 cash prize as well as a unique broadcast commission - to make four artworks for Channel 4's acclaimed 3 Minute Wonder (3MW) slot. This is the only award of its kind where an artist is rewarded with both financial assistance to enable them to flourish and the phenomenal opportunity to broadcast their work on primetime national television. The Award aims to shine a light on artist film-makers who are to our times what Jarman was to his.
The Jarman Award 2009
Film London invited 200 representatives across the UK from the art world including commissioners, artists, cinema programmers and galleries curators, to nominate potential recipients of the Award. Any emerging artist film-maker, whose work embraces the spirit and the legacy of Jarman's highly experimental and risk-taking approach can be put forward for this annual prize.
This year's Award again attracted an impressive jury panel, consisting of Stuart Comer (Tate Modern), Jan Younghusband (Head of Arts, Channel 4), Iwona Blazwick (Director, Whitechapel Gallery), Dave Calhoun (Film Editor, Time Out), Asif Kapadia (Film-maker), Shami Chakrabarti (Director, Liberty) and Richard Birkett (Curator, ICA).
The 2009 jury shortlisted four ground-breaking artists: Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Simon Martin, Lindsay Seers and Stephen Sutcliffe.
Information about the shortlisted artists and the winner, including extracts; biographies; and jury comments, can be found on the FLAMIN site.
The Jarman Award 2008
The inaugural Jarman Award was presented by Film London and More4, in partnership with the Serpentine Gallery, to Scottish born artist Luke Fowler. Fowler was selected from a shortlist of four artists, which included Duncan Campbell, Andrew Kötting and Emily Wardill, selected from over 60 artists put forward for the award.
Luke Fowler completed four films for the 3MW strand, which premiered on Channel 4 over four consecutive nights in April 2009. Entitled Anna, Helen, David and Lester, they are a series of portraits of four diverse individuals brought together through a shared residence - a flat in a Victorian tenement in the West End of Glasgow.
Subsequent to receiving the Jarman Award Fowler's work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at both the Kunsthalle Zürich and the Serpentine Gallery in London (7 May - 14 June 2009).
Read more about last year's Jarman Awards on the FLAMIN website.
Film London's support for artists is administered through the Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) that offers a comprehensive support network for all London-based artists working with the moving image. Find out more about the network on the FLAMIN website.
