We are thrilled to announce DegreeArt artist M.Lohrum has won the First Prize of the 2020 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.
'You are It. Performed at Tenerife Espacio de Las Artes. 2019'
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 recently announced prize winners in a press release published on their website, with the First Prize awarded to DegreeArt artist, M.Lohrum:
Announced on "For the first time in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize’s history, the First Prize of £8,000 went to a performative drawing: M. Lohrum’s You are It. Between drawing, installation and performance, this collaborative piece challenges the individual notion of authorship by emphasising collectivity and collaboration. Participants were invited to follow these rules: ‘Walk along the paper. Draw circles with your arm. Stop below the lights. Resume your march when other participant touches your shoulder’ for the performance documented in film in the exhibition. You Are It has also been adapted to accommodate safe social distancing for participants at Cooper Gallery at the University of Dundee and Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.
The Prize’s selectors applauded the collective embrace of M. Lorhum’s work. "The invitation to members of the public to participate as anonymous makers and the work’s dependency on collaboration between strangers felt timely and necessary speaking to the power of art bring people together" says Frances Morris.
Read the full press release here
Words from the artist:
Selected from original artworks, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize and exhibition has an established reputation for its commitment to championing excellence and promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practice. The open exhibition provides a platform for drawing practitioners to showcase their work alongside other leading artists and makers in the field. The exhibition is launched each year, and the awards announced in London before touring in the UK. While offering emerging, mid-career and established artists a platform to exhibit their work, the project has developed new insights into the role and value of drawing in creative practice today.
About M.Lohrum's practice:
M. Lohrum (Madeleine Lohrum Strancari ) is a London based artist working on performative drawing. She explores drawing as a consequence or a residue of a performative process, where her body, gesture, physicality and movement are key factors, and mark making and traces are a visual expression of movement-based thinking. Her work challenges boundaries between media. Every work is a performance, but also a drawing, a video and an installation. All of these media have a fragile and changeable nature in common with the mechanics of her artistic procedures. Her creative process is an oscillation between pairs of opposite concepts, such as intuition-reason, personal-universal experience, figurative-abstract, presence-absence, or, most importantly, control-randomness; exploring the possibilities in between these concepts. Time, body and space are also important ideas in her practice, where in the movement of her own body in a specific place or action determines decisively the final appearance of the work.
She was born in the Canary Islands (Spain) where she graduated with honours through the Interdisciplinary Projects route in 2013 in the University of La Laguna (ull). In 2017, she finished her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, where she has developed in depth her abilities in video and performative drawing.
