Five artists and collectives have been recognised by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Each will receive £60,000 distributed over three years with no restrictions. They are artists and DJ Ain Bailey; queer, trans and non-binary black and people of colour collective Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), a community of creators involved in art, sound and radical activism; Helen Cammock, whose practice spans film, photography, print, text, song and performance and whose work was the subject of a feature in ArtReview’s October issue; multidisciplinary artist Jamie Crewe whose work retells ancient myths, Victorian literature, Scottish folklore and more to create dreamlike vignettes that express constriction and resistance; and Imran Perretta is an artist working with the moving image, sound, installation and performance to explore ideas of power, identity, migration and belonging.
The awards are earmarked to support artists ‘at a timely moment in their careers, giving them the freedom to develop their creative ideas and contributing to their personal and professional growth’. They are made annually to five visual artists and five composers. The winning composers are Nneka Cummins, Dilettante (Francesca Pidgeon), Edward George, Hyelim Kim and Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy.
