Jarman Award 2022: Video Excerpts From The Nominees
The British prize for moving image work has been an important forerunner of further success.
Grace Ndiritu, Black Beauty (2021), film still. Courtesy of Post-Hippie Productions.
The six nominees for this year's Jarman Award were announced this week. They are Jamie Crewe, Onyeka Igwe, Grace Ndiritu, Morgan Quaintance, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, and Alberta Whittle.
The winner of the £10,000 prize will be announced the week of 21 November 2022.
This year's nominees impressed the jury with boldly experimental films, said jury member Iwona Blazwick, Emeritus Curator of Whitechapel Gallery.
'Collectively, they offer a rich combination of performance and story-telling, montage and animation, music and humour,' she said.
'Often drawing on collective endeavours, they blow the dust from archives to spotlight lost histories and navigate the rich and complex tributaries of origin and identity,' Blazwick added.
The Jarman Award was launched in 2008 and named in honour of British filmmaker Derek Jarman, who died of AIDS-related illness in 1994.
Artists previously shortlisted for the Jarman Award include Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Oreet Ashery, Duncan Campbell, Monster Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Laure Prouvost, Elizabeth Price, and James Richards.
All of these artists were later shortlisted for the Turner Prize.
Before being nominated for the Jarman Award, Crewe and Whittle were among the ten winners of a bursary Tate awarded in 2020 in lieu of the Turner Prize.
View video excerpts of the 2022 Jarman Award nominees' work below. —[O]
