Dorset Art Prize & GIANT Open

24.11.2023 - 20.01.2024

At GIANT Art Gallery


The Dorset Art Prize celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and in association with Bournemouth & Poole College and Arts University Bournemouth, GIANT is exhibiting a selection of shortlisted works at the gallery.

GIANT is hosting its first ever open exhibition of work, in association with the Dorset Art Prize.

The theme is ENVIRONMENT.

Please see the list of works and winners for this years prize below:

Awards 2023

  • Joint 1st Prize: Eleanor Teather £500

    Joint 1st Prize: Alex Wilkes £500

    2nd Prize: Daisy Kavanagh – Lowe £250

    3rd Prize: Lucy Broad £100

  • 1st Prize: Charlie Melvin £1,000

    2nd Prize: Sophie Hawkins £750

  • 1st Prize: Serena Langford £1,000

    2nd Prize: Danny Byrne £750

    3rd Prize: Sarah Wall £500

View the full list of works:

  • Lucy Broad

    My Fridge My Space

    Ink on paper

    Daisy Kavanagh- Lowe

    Save Our Bird Species

    Mixed media sculpture- wire, tissue

    paper, aluminium can, wood

    Freddie Nash

    Help!

    Acrylic painting on CDs on foil

    Electra Craig

    A Healthy Environment?

    Coloured pencil on mountboard

    Daisy Mitchelle

    The enduring earth

    Acrylic paints

    Eleanor Teather

    My Dad’s Environment

    Acrylic on grey board

    Shannon Cook

    Environment

    Digital photography collage

    Charlie Melvin

    Environment

    Interiors

    Lauren Kay

    Environment

    Fiona Gartshore

    Let’s Not Let Pineapples Become

    Extinct!

    Charcoal & chalk on sugar paper

    Alex Wilkes

    Coffee Grounds

    Acrylic paint

    Anastasiia Myronova

    Underground

    Pencil

    Rose Jamieson

    Environment

    Painting and collage

    Isabelle Charles

    Environment

    Printed photo

    Holly Parish

    Environment

    Textile Wall hangings

    Jazmin Johnson

    Environment

    Urban environment

    Seb Clark

    Environment

    Glazed ceramic

    Jorja Rolls

    Age

    Layered Perspex and acrylic paint

    Oliver Konys

    Environment

    Digital artwork

    Sophie Hawkins

    Environment

    3D collage

    Ellie Smith

    Water Baby

    Acrylic on canvas

    Jett Mason

    Environment

    Drawing and painting

    Evie Hodges

    I Miss Pineapples

    Wet and dry felting

    Arina Tkachenko

    Sleep

    Acrylic with fabric

    Chloe Lowe

    Look beneath the Stones

    Watercolour and fine liner

    Chloe Isaac

    Environment

    Ceramic

    Holly Berlyn

    Ladybird Ladybug

    Black fine liner on rag paper

    Doff Davies

    The March of Time

    Textile applique

    Asher Bassford

    Old Gods

    Digitally illustrated vinyl sleeve

    Danny Byrne

    Both Sides of the Sheet

    Oil on canvas with 24k gold leaf

    Aoife Howarth

    Environmental Challenge

    Acrylic paint, collage

    Giovana Carvalho De Moraes Rodrigues

    My World

    Water colour and stencil

    Vivek Chitkara

    Enlightened Horizons

    Acrylic on canvas

    Serena Langford

    Environmental Destruction

    Peter Dixon

    Old Harry Rocks and the Milky Way

    Oil on canvas

    Chris Davies

    On Balance

    Found objects

    Natalia Papros Palmer

    Climatalypse

    Photography triptych

    Edie Evans

    Salt and Clay

    Shaye Davidson

    Senses

    Ink and digital collage

    Nathanial Port

    The Hand of Yahweh

    Acrylic ink on canvas

    Mahtab Grimshaw

    The Mermaid

    Naomi Handy

    Beech Tree in Raddon Hill

    Lino print

    Julie Reid

    Mock Turtle Soup

    Oil & acrylic on plywood

    Michael Sole

    Dancing Ledge

    Oil and acrylic on canvas

    Alba Abenojar Risco

    Environment

    Installation

    Sarah Wall

    Pillow Talk

    Acrylic paint

  • Katerina Svetzikova

    Mother ‘Stoim’, 2018

    Digital print on aluminium plate

    Piers Inkpen

    We both face east 1, 2022

    Egg tempera on board

    May Summers-Perkins

    We have the power to shape our future

    planet

    Digital print

    Catherine L Owen

    World, flat, 2023

    Textiles

    Emily Stracey

    Gulls not Buoys, 2023

    Stoneware fired ceramics velvet

    underglaze

    Sarah Redmond-Fareham

    We came from the sea

    Vintage matchbox, pressed seaweed,

    vintage photograph and hand cut collage

    Louise Houlton

    Vanishing Greenery, 2021

    Acrylic, varnish

    Clare Wilson

    Hidden (making the private public), 2021

    Photograph, giclee print

    Linn O’Carroll

    Bearing Witness, 2023

    Helena Marchese

    New Forest Burnt Gorse, 2022

    Screenprint on paper

    Lisa Matysiak

    415/672,768,000, 2022

    Willow charcoal on paper

    Trina Hart

    There is a field. Rumi, 2023

    Mixed media

    Prophet

    Twenty Four

    Stencil, spray paint, board

    Katherine Selfe

    Stand Out, 2023

    Oil paint on wooden panel

    Marion Boyle

    Hull & Rudder III, 2022

    Acrylic on paper

    Blake Roj

    Window into the future

    Photo home

    Katie Kelly

    Ecotopia,2023

    Oil paint on canvas

    Nature Adapts

    Nature Adapts

    Ink, coloured, pencils, felt tip

    Alicia Kent

    Going home

    Miriam Troth

    Nocturne no3, 2020

    Mixed media

    Jenny Tarr

    RECYCLED

    Mixed media on recycled grounds

    Christine Paine

    Breathe, 2019

    Woven Tapestry

    Diane Roberts

    Traces Performance, 2016

    Pencil, pen, photograph

    Keira Rathbone

    Poole: It’s a beautiful place, 2022-2023

    Typiction on arches, watercolour paper

    Roxanne Philips

    Unsinkable, 2023

    Oil, acrylic

    Rebecca Martin

    Monkey Business

    Acrylic paint on upcycled mdf board

    Niamh Mairead

    Untitled (sex dolls series no.4) 2023

    Concrete

    Jindra Jehu

    From the Ground Up, 2023

    Used engine oil, summer oyster fungi,

    paper

    Elizabeth Rowntree

    Ouroboros costume illustration, 2023

    Watercolour, ink, fineliner

    Iona Scott

    Discophaera Plankton Light Sculpture

    PLA Filament (3D printed) + LED’s

    Stuart Ridley

    Self Portrait with leaves, 2021-2023

    Acrylic and pencil on canvas

    Demelza Donkin-Green

    Messenger, 2022

    Acrylic on canvas

    Kevin Moore

    Flux, 2023

    Oil on board

    Jan Allison Edwards

    Blood on your hands orbit book

    Handmade plant, seaweed papers,

    pigments, starch

    Peter Murphy

    BOTALLACK

    Oil paint on wood

    Emma Moxey

    Longshore Drift

    Gouache, chalk paint and acrylic on paper

    Kirsten Littlewood

    Charli in the cornfield, 2022

    Photography

    Susan Francis

    ROAD TO PORTON, 2018

    Microscope slides, film stills, acetate

    Dani Parkinson

    2023

    Charcoal on paper

    Joanna Cruickshanks

    BONE/BREATH

    Bone paint, bone tallow on paper

    Mark Weeks

    No 53 ‘Pisspot’, 2018

    Paint on Canvas

    Laura Irving

    Half-Life

    Audio (field recording & processed sound)

    Rose-Marie Luk

    1. Rose Quartz, 2023

    2. Wood, 2023

    3. The power of pine, 2023

    Sugar crystals, beeswax,moss,shells

    sticks, pinecones, found objects,

    crystals,coins, mushrooms, clay

    David McDarmid

    2023

    Wood

    Smithsonian Rösterino

    9/11 SHELL MATCHES

    Vintage matchbooks modified

    Jeff Baggott

    Mattress, 2021

    Oil on board

    Mark Perry

    Sovereign,

    Acrylic on Canvas

    David Meyers

    Summer, 2023

    Heidi Steller

    GLIMMER, 2023

    Acrylic on canvas

    Mitchell Turner

    Bar, Plants and Blinds, 2023

    Oil paint and paint-slick on canvas

    Saba Khatami

    Birthday Hat

    Prajvi Mandhani

    Dining Table Conversations

    Sadaf Firoozi

    You Are the Home

    Sophia Jones and Harvey Wood

    This Land Is Bliss

    William Sipling

    A Conversation About Home

OPEN CALL FAQ’s

GIANT will be hosting its first ever open exhibition of work, in association with the Dorset Art Prize.

The theme is ENVIRONMENT.

If you have artwork you'd like to submit, please bring it to the gallery in person on Tuesday 21st November, between 12pm and 6pm.

Artist and Curator Stuart Semple, Creative Director Ben Friend and Gallery Manager Verity Slade will discuss the work with you, and if you are successful your piece will be included in a forthcoming exhibition opening next Friday.

Please see below for answers to FAQs

Can I book a time slot on Tuesday?

  • No, please just drop in to the gallery at any point between 12-6pm. Unfortunately we cannot accept any artworks outside of these times

Can I bring multiple works?

  • Yes, but we will generally only select 1 work per artist - please don’t bring more than 3 pieces along with you

What mediums will you accept? Is 3D okay as well?

  • We will consider all mediums including 3D, our space is limited though so if you can’t physically carry a piece into the gallery it may be too large for this show

Should the work be framed?

  • Where possible, please bring framed work - if it’s not framed please make sure there is a way it can be hung on a wall if 2D

How closely does artwork need to meet the theme of ‘The Environment’?

  • The environment as a theme can be interpreted however you see fit, but works should show some relevance (we may ask you what the relevance is)

How long will my work be up for?

  • The exhibition will run in our project space until Saturday 20th January - please make sure your piece is available for the duration of the show

Can anyone submit work?

  • Yes! Please don’t travel too far to submit though, this is a celebratory community show with works presented alongside the Dorset Art Prize.

If your question hasn’t been answered above, please get in touch with us via: gallery@giant.space