Main Prize Winner: Lee Williams - 'Portrait of a Town 2'
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Peoples Prize Winner: Ruth Murray - 'The Croft'
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This years theme was ‘A Portrait of the Artist as...’ and featured the work of 48 artists from around the globe. There were over 200 submissions to the exhibition; the artists were asked to veer away from traditional portraiture and explore how they see themselves as an artist or what events or places made them the person they are today... fact or fiction, it was up to them. The exhibitors were chosen by celebrated Welsh artist and writer Iwan Bala and Ruth Cayford the Visual Arts manager for Cardiff County Council.
Two Swansea art galleries provide the awards; elysium gallery sponsored the Main Prize whilst Mission Gallery provided the People’s Choice and also managed the Beep2014 Children’s Painting Prize - which ran at the same time as the main exhibition. There were also various workshops and artist activities throughout the show.
Beep2014 formed part of Wales’ Dylan Thomas 100th Birthday Celebrations and the exhibition took place in the sprawling former Iceland supermarket on Swansea High Street. The building was recently purchased and renovated by Coastal Housing Group as part of its strategy for the regeneration of High Street and is set to become a new artistic hub for the community.
Two Swansea art galleries provide the awards; elysium gallery sponsored the Main Prize whilst Mission Gallery provided the People’s Choice and also managed the Beep2014 Children’s Painting Prize - which ran at the same time as the main exhibition. There were also various workshops and artist activities throughout the show.
Beep2014 formed part of Wales’ Dylan Thomas 100th Birthday Celebrations and the exhibition took place in the sprawling former Iceland supermarket on Swansea High Street. The building was recently purchased and renovated by Coastal Housing Group as part of its strategy for the regeneration of High Street and is set to become a new artistic hub for the community.
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The Beep2014 judges were Iwan Bala and Ruth Cayford.
Read more about them in the exhibitors catalogue (above).
Read more about them in the exhibitors catalogue (above).
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