The 2006 bursary was, as in 2005, a 'drawing' bursary, offered to an artist in order to support the development of their ongoing artwork. The number of entries this year was almost 4 times as many as in 2005, with huge competition for the £1,000 on offer. The judges (the Discerning Eye Educational Panel members, Tom Coates, David Gluck, Anita Taylor and James Lloyd) were delighted with the overall high standard of those who applied for the bursary.

The four finalists were Phillip Hogben, Gwen Adaire, Cath Campbell and Simon Parish, with Cath emerging as the winner. She plans to use the bursary for research into an ambitious new drawing, aiming to map meticulously an entire lost drowned town in Tuscany. Her application statement read as follows:

In recent work, I have created a series of meticulously drawn architectures. Each work starts with a rigorously drawn grid of lines, echoing the precision of computer generated images, and is then slowly drawn into and removed, the final structure of the work developing through the process itself. The drawings are both complex and intricate, with an immense fragility that undermines the inherent solidity and permanence of the subject matter. Over the summer 2006, I completed a residency at Cragside, Northumberland, a National Trust property, which was closed to the public.

For me, the inaccessible became immediately intriguing: a building you cannot enter exists as an enticing idea, no longer physical, entirely invisible, but still an existence. During my residency I created a series of studies of the interior space of Cragside Hall, (Possibly Maybe No's I - IV) using only observation of the exterior, plans of the site, and gathered knowledge and images of the internal design.

 

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