The New Ashgate Gallery Rising Stars exhibition has opened and it is a triumph.
After a bumper submission year – the best ever! – me and my fellow Rising Stars selectors, Outi Remes and Sharon Ting, finally managed to whittle down the many applicants to twenty-seven. Worthy finalists all, they represent an array of discipline, material and technique. Every single New Ashgate Rising Star 2024 is a very deserving finalist.
So, it’s huge congratulations to Richard Parr (The Stripey Fox Workshop), Olivia Barber, Libby Daniels, Laura Gibbs, Taylor Shaw, Charlotte Smith, Choi Chi Wing, Samuel Cheeseman, Sophie Wootton, Philip Gay, Simone Brown, Carolina De Jesus, Barbara Sulzberger, Suluk Khalvati, Sarah Louise McQuarrie, Masuma Rahim (Urban Wood), Caitlin Murphy, Hanyi Feng, Ling Yin Shum, Lucy Pearl Petts, Molly Rigby, Monica Findlay, Rachael Plassard, Sandra Junele, Sarah White, Youyou Wang and Jess Skelton. The New Ashgate Rising Stars 2024 exhibition brochure can be viewed here.
On March 15th, Outi Remes and I, with our fellow judge Debra Allman, had the hugely difficult task of choosing a winner. Step forward Jess Skelton and her extraordinarily visceral ceramics: bold and with a powerful emotional presence, we judges were unanimous in our choice. Congratulations Jess!
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