Winners announced for the third year of the North East Emerging Artist Award
Art lovers in the North East can begin planning their exhibition visits for 2025.
Hello everyone,
It gives me great pleasure to share with you the winners for the third North East Emerging Artist Award at Seaton Delaval Hall.
We shared the announcement around the opening of the Emerging Artist Award on the Culture Northumberland blog back in October 2023.
A partnership between the National Trust and independent curator, Matthew Jarratt, visitors can look forward to seeing work from artists Jordan Edge, Phoebe Scott and Lucy Waters, all of whom presented their proposals in Seaton Delaval Hall’s grand stables this summer.
The exhibition of the artists’ work will run concurrently with proposals from next year’s shortlisted artists, along with the opportunity for visitors to once again play their part in selecting the three winners.
Jordan Edge
Artist Jordan (Kiik Amor), is a non-binary/trans artist originally from the North East, working in the field of experimental design and sonic arts and will present their work The Lyre of Elysium in 2025. They manipulate metals, latex, and silicone to create sculptures and sound installations that function as abstract forms of communication.
Of their win, Jordan said
“It's a great opportunity for me to work on home ground. I'm proud to be from Newcastle and incredibly happy to get this amazing opportunity to work with the National Trust and Seaton Delaval Hall on this project. The history of Seaton Delaval Hall has provided a doorway into exploring my own interpretations of the fantasy, music and lore that has been left behind with the Delavals, informing my public sound sculpture, 'The Lyre Of Elysium'. I'm excited to enchant the grounds of Seaton Delaval and provide new speculation on the existing history and fantasy of the Delavals with my Aeolian Harp and musical composition.”
Phoebe Scott
Phoebe is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in dance and set design and who graduated from Newcastle University’s Fine Art degree this summer. Her work focuses on theatrical femininity, by crafting narratives that blend magical and scientific methodologies to explore desire within our technologically evolving world. She works primarily in sculpture using stained glass and found objects.
Phoebe will collect nettles at the hall to create her interactive work, Glamour of the Big Wigs:
“I am over the moon to be a part of the NE Emerging Artists Award, this gives me an opportunity to make an ambitious work, an art piece I would not have been able to do otherwise and I cannot wait to start!”
Lucy Waters
Lucy graduated from Newcastle University in 2023 with a distinction in her masters of fine art. Since then, she has exhibited at the Bridge Gallery at Tynemouth metro station and had three works feature in the Baltic Open Submissions 2024. Lucy imagines herself to have been commissioned by Rhoda Delaval, an accomplished artist, and eldest daughter of the ‘Gay Delavals’, to create an ever-growing dining ware set, Delaval Ware:
“The project for me is such a unique opportunity for broadening my horizons as an artist. In both how I approach and consider the making of my work but also getting the chance to delve so thoroughly into the history of Seaton Delaval Hall and to be able to respond to the site in this way is something that I am really looking forward too."
Award Curator, Matthew Jarratt said:
“This is the third cohort of emerging artists to be selected for this special opportunity which aims to nurture new North East artists. The creative imagination of these artists is inspiring and I look forward to working with them over the year ahead as they evolve their ideas into new installations at Seaton Delaval Hall.”
Throughout its history Seaton Delaval Hall and its inhabitants have been synonymous with artistic support, from commissioning watercolourist Arthur Pond to produce views of the hall, the backing of erotic novelist, John Clelland, and the patronage of William Bell who produced family portraits and tutored Rhoda Delaval through to the 21st Lord Hastings’ support of The Royal Ballet.
The recent winners’ exhibition included sculptor Rachel Blackwell’s Flight of the Pipistrelles suspended from the Entrance Hall, Many Hands, a series of hanging quilts made from reclaimed fabrics and lost property from fashion and textile designer, Jacob Goff, and Time Flies in the Blink of An Eye, an audio piece which considered Seaton Delaval Hall in the future from Wambui Hardcastle.
Seaton Delaval Hall is open Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm during term time and seven days a week during Northumberland school holidays. Last admission is 4pm. Standard admission applies.
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