Porthleven Prize winners 2023
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Winning students from Bath and Falmouth create works of art during Porthleven Prize Residency
Monday, 19 June, 2023Congratulations are in order for the following students from a variety of courses who have successfully completed this year’s Porthleven Prize Residency as overall winners of the competition:
Bath Spa University
- Asha Uberoi - BA (Hons) Fine Art
- Bhavana Ram Mohan - BA (Hons) Design (Illustration)
- Brodie Marshall - BA (Hons) Film, TV and Digital Production
- Elliot Coffin - BA (Hons) Fine Art
- Helen JR Bruce - BA (Hons) Creative Writing
Falmouth University
- Agata Flaminika - BA (Hons) Fine Art
- Jessica Borders - BA (Hons) Graphic Design
- Oli Saunders - BA (Hons) Film
- Rosie George - BA (Hons) Visual Communication Online
- Sam Churchill-Guntrip - BA (Hons) Fine Art
The students had gone head-to-head with others to be chosen as the finalists for the prestigious two-week residency which took place at the end of May.
As part of the residency, they attended workshops delivered by Terry Pope (Bath Academy of Art 1961 alumni) and Dr Lucy English, current Professor of Creative Enterprise and The Spoken Word at Bath Spa University. The residency’s two tutors were Kellie Hindmarch, Photography Course Leader from Bath Spa University, and Adrianne Arendse, Lecturer and Agency Manager at Falmouth University’s in-house agency, MAYN Creative.
Speaking on this year’s achievements, Dr Lucy English said: "The Porthleven Prize is a unique opportunity for creative practice students to develop their process and to collaborate with other artists/creatives and art forms. The setting of Porthleven enhances a desire to connect with such a special place and its many communities. On the residency I was impressed with the commitment of the students and their exceptional abilities."
Adrianne Arendse added: “The Porthleven Prize was, and is, a wonderful collaboration with the staff and students of Bath Spa University. It’s left a positive, life- and craft-affirming mark on everyone involved.
“As resident mentors Kellie Hindmarch and I held space for a lively mosaic of ceramicists, fine artists, designers, illustrators, writers, filmmakers and musicians to challenge themselves beyond the edges of their disciplines and explore the roots of their craft. Supporting their journeys in the first phase of residency and on into the second has been and continues to be our great honour. We’ve all connected in ways that feel as though they will continue for the rest of our lives one way or the other.
“It has been one of the most validating experiences of my working life. Kellie and I have truly bonded and it would be lovely to explore further collaborations between our two institutions.”
This unique opportunity gave students from both universities the chance to work collaboratively, to gather materials and ideas to produce work for a touring exhibition.
The exhibition of the winning students’ work will launch at the Porthleven Arts Festival in September, it will then be on show at Falmouth University in October, and finish with an exhibition at Bath Spa University at the end of the year.