The Royal Academy and Claridge's are both committed to supporting artists at a time when fees for higher education are skyrocketing and the costs of artists' studio spaces in London are now out of reach.
Jame St Findlay is an artist who works with film and sculpture creating ornate, sprawling theatrical installations. Ideas of tragicomedy, codified or broken systems, and industrial and post-industrial landscapes are folded in as forms and subjects.
As a gay artist, exploring themes of heteronormativity or normalisation, in general, is far more interesting to me than exploring my own queerness; I feel that I live that every day, and I want to use my work as a means of exploring other narratives.
Last year's winner, Daria Blum, has launched her exhibition at Claridge's ArtSpace. A three-channel video work shows Blum sorting through a bundle of materials found in a deserted office block.
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