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Longlists and Public Voting Begins for Festival Awards Europe

Alan — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:32:30 +0000

The Festival Awards Europe voting has officially opened, the long lists have been unveiled and fans are flocking to show their support for their favourite artists and events. This is the third edition of these awards and it looks set to be the biggest and bet yet, as the number of festivals participating has risen by 15% and 32 countries have entrants.

This is phenomenal growth considering it is only the third year of the awards, and it further reinforces the consistently strengthening and diversity of the marketplace as far as pan European music festivals are concerned. You can view video highlights of the 2011 festival Awards here

The MD of Festival Awards Limited is James Drury, his company organises the awards and he has said that this years response from festivals across Europe has been phenomenal. He added that these awards were all about giving recognition to the hard work that went into making Europe’s vibrant and diverse festival industry the success that it is and is a celebration of their achievements over the past year.

He also said that these awards also give the fans the opportunity to tell the organisers of the festivals they attended how much they had enjoyed themselves at these events, as well as there being several awards that were industry focussed and were judged by an expert panel which highlighted the crucial elements that occur behind the scenes and that the public often don’t consider.

The results are jointly decided by both industry juries and the public, and the awards are the sole body in Europe that are dedicated to recognising the achievements and contributions of both the performing artists and the organisers in creating events that bring billions of Euros into the local economy. Not only that, but festivals also brighten up the summers for the tens of millions of festival goers every year.

Public voting runs from 24th October – 6th December Vote online here

Presented as a partnership between Festival Awards Ltd, YOUROPE and Eurosonic Noorderslag, the Festival Awards Europe will take place on Wednesday, 11th January 2012 at Groningen’s De Oosterpoort in The Netherlands, on the opening night of Eurosonic Noorderslag. Winners will be announced on the night with live acts and aftershow party.

YOUROPE Chairman Christof Huber commented: “We have seen the Festival Awards Europe grow massively since the launch in 2009. More festivals are taking part in the awards, the number of votes has increased drastically and we feel much more support and interest from bands, sponsors and media in the awards. We are proud to be involved in it and we look forward to a next big step forward ”

EuroSonic Noorderslag Creative Director Peter Smidt concluded: “Starting Eurosonic Noorderslag on Wednesday 12th January with the European festival Awards and under the same roof the European Border Breakers Awards feels like the ideal opening night were both the best European festivals and artists are awarded.”

This year’s Award Categories are as follows:

1. Best Major European Festival

2. Best Medium-Sized European Festival

3. Best Small European Festival

4. Best New European Festival

5. Best Indoor Festival

6. Best European Festival Line-Up

7. YOUROPE Green ‘N’ Clean Festival Of The Year

8. Artist’s Favourite European Festival

9. Best Newcomer

10. Best Headliner

11. Festival Anthem of the Year

12. Virtual Festivals Europe presents Promoter Of The Year

13. YOUROPE Lifetime Achievement Award

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Yota Space Festival – New digital and music arts festival in St Petersburg

admin — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:39:14 +0000

Credit: Chris Levine

Yota, the wireless broadband Internet company from Russia, is bringing the cream of the world’s best visual and music artists to St Petersburg for the very first time this December. A handpicked line-up of cutting edge artists has been invited to showcase their unique talents at the inaugural Yota Space Festival from 5th – 19th December.

Yota has broken new ground by bringing together the world’s greatest contemporary digital artists under one roof for the first time. Highlighting Yota’s increasing cultural profile, global artists ranging from Brian Eno to onedotzero have chosen Yota Space to premier their inspirational work in Russia.

Brian Eno comments, “As an art student my favorite period was Russian art of the early 20th Century, I lived in Russia in 1997 in St Petersburg and I’ve always felt a very strong connection with Russian Culture. I’m thrilled to be coming back to exhibit my 77 Million Paintings instillation at Yota Space in December.”

Yota Space will be housed in a 15,000 sqm building in the centre St Petersburg and features five floors of the world’s most innovative digital art. Legendary music producer Brian Eno will be using HD LED Light, alongside, Chris Levine is bringing his “Alright Now” instillation which projects images on to your peripheral vision, Jason Bruges will be previewing “Pea Soupa”, United Visual Artists, Musion, VideoFabrika, MSA Visuals and onedotzero. Installations will range from holographic 3D paintings to illuminated objects, laser sculptures and interactive light spaces.

The two-week event will be launched on the 5th December with a multi-media party headlined by Grammy award nominated British electronic band Hot Chip. They will be joined by up-and-coming, Masters of Skweee and SCSI-9.

Yota has curated the event itself as a way to ensure that it stays at the cutting edge of contemporary culture and cultivates the creativity that sits at the heart of the brand.

‘Yota Space has been created as part of our mission to transform people’s lives by giving them access to new ideas from across the globe. Yota aims to be a company that inspires, so we’ve invested in bringing together some of the most inspirational people in the world for this event. We hope the people of St Petersburg enjoy what promises to be one of the most unique events that Europe has seen this year’ explains Dennis Sverdlov, Yota CEO.

Between 6th and 11th December, Yota Space will also offer a series of educational programmes from a one-day onedotzero new creators conference and lectures to workshops and master classes, designed to inspire young video artists and animators with the latest advances in digital art. A ‘Talent Zone’ will be created as a platform for displaying the work of young artists who will also be offered the chance to join a Yota initiated academic programme.

Open from 12pm to 10pm each day, Yota Space is set to attract more than 40,000 people during the two-week period, and will give visitors the opportunity to touch, explore and interact with the world’s most exciting multimedia art – all within the setting of one of the world’s most beautiful cities.

Further details: space.yota.ru

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Lucas Cranach, German Renaissance Artist, Features in London’s Master Paintings Week

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:23:22 +0000

Dürer and Holbein have long been recognised as great German Renaissance masters, but it has taken five hundred years for the British to recognise the importance of Lucas Cranach. Despite Prince Albert’s enthusiasm, he was surprisingly little known in Britain in the nineteenth century and Friëdlander’s 1932 German monograph on the artist was not translated into English until 1978. It was only two years ago, in 2007, that the first British exhibition of his work was held at The Courtauld Gallery, and not until last year that the Royal Academy hosted the first monographic exhibition in this country to give any sense of the range of his work. Despite this general neglect of Cranach by the artistic establishment in Britain, Cranach is a great favourite among contemporary artists and was a notable inspiration for Picasso and the German Expressionists. Konrad Bernheimer, one of the sponsors of last year’s Royal Academy exhibition, has long championed his work. During Master Paintings Week (4th – 10th July) Colnaghi will be commemorating Colnaghi-Bernheimer’s association with Cranach’s work, by the publication of a catalogue which surveys some of the masterpieces handled by the firm in the last fifteen years and by showcasing two of the finest examples of Cranach’s works on the open market: David & Bathsheba and The Virgin of the Grapes with the Standing Christ Child. The “artist-in-focus” exhibition will also include one of Cranach’s early woodcuts, some prints by Picasso which were directly influenced by Cranach, and a rare photograph of the interior of Picasso’s studio showing a Cranach composition in the background. Jeremy Howard, Head of Research at Colnaghi, will give a lunchtime gallery talk on Cranach and how his style has influenced some of the Modern masters followed by a tour of some of the master paintings on view in the gallery. This gallery talk will start at 13:00 on Monday 6th July at Colnaghi, 15 Old Bond Street, London W1. An illustrated catalogue by Jeremy Howard will be available, which surveys eight important paintings sold by Colnaghi-Bernheimer and two currently for sale, as well as examining changing critical attitudes to Cranach and his influence on later masters such as Picasso, Kirchner and John Currin.

David and Bathsheba Lucas Cranach, 1534

Konrad O. Bernheimer said: ‘Cranach has long fascinated me, but during the last 15 years, when I have been privileged to handle some really great paintings by this master and his workshop, he has remained, in my view, perhaps the most underrated of the great early German painters, particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world. As a dealer who has handled some of the best Cranachs to have come to market in recent years, I am proud to have played some part in that process of revaluation, both through supporting with my business Katrin Bellinger last year’s major Anglo-German collaboration between Städel Museum, Frankfurt and the Royal Academy, and through communicating my enthusiasm to clients. ‘

Cranach: Artist in Focus will be on display to coincide with the augural event – Master Paintings Week, held in London 4th – 10th July. Twenty-three of London’s top dealers join forces with Sotheby’s and Christie’s to stage a week of special exhibitions, events and lectures in their gallery in Mayfair and St. James’s. All galleries are open Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 July, 10am – 5pm, and Monday 6 to Friday 10 July, 10am – 6pm.
www.masterpaintingsweek.co.uk

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Corrymoor Socks feature in Sock Exchange Art Project in Liverpool

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:57:41 +0000

The humble socks on your feet could become a new art form, especially if they are mohair socks from Corrymoor Farm in East Devon.

Corrymoor Socks are to feature in an art exhibition in Liverpool to highlight the need for sustainability in the way we lead our lives.

The Climate for Change exhibition at the FACT gallery in Liverpool features the work of artist in residence Kai-Oi Jay Yung who is undertaking her Sock Exchange project at the gallery to help turn socks into works of art (April 6-12th), inviting visitors to bring their odd and holey socks to the gallery as well as running a Speed Socking Lonely Hearts event.

As part of her activity Jay has been investigating the sock manufacturing industry with her video “Socking”, which will also feature the angora goats of Corrymoor Farm at Stockland in East Devon. The film examines the whole sock making process from the birth of angora goats at Corrymoor Farm to the eventual finished socks which are then sent to customers around the world.

Kai-Oi Jay Yung wants to make consumers re-think the way they consume, and to understand what it takes to produce everyday items like socks and what effect that process has on the environment; “I want consumers to be more aware of the small details in their lives that they take for granted – like socks. The video will give a platform for the agricultural and textile industries, but the sock exchange will give people the chance to have fun and to darn their old socks and turn them into little works of art.”
Steve Whitley, who runs Corrymoor Farm with his wife Jenny, admits to having been a little surprised when he was approached by Jay to take part in the video for the art exhibition.

“We were a bit sceptical at first. It is not every day that you are asked to appear in a video for the sake of art, but Jay soon persuaded us that she was serious about making the public think about agriculture and the sock making process. It is nice to think that our angora goats and socks are being celebrated in this way.”

For more information about Sock Exchange, please contact Jay Yung on 07961 915011 or email yung_jay@hotmail.com
www.myspace.com/artsockexchange

For more information about Corrymoor socks visit www.corrymoor.com or email socks@corrymoor.com or Tel 01404 861245.

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