Now in its 9th year, the Jersey Summer Exhibition continues to be the highlight of the cultural calendar in Jersey and drives the standard of artwork being made. Having work exhibited at CCA Galleries International has helped launch the careers of promising Jersey artists, as well as enforcing that of those already established.
The exhibition is open to emerging and established artists alike and the gallery encourages applications from artists in every stage in their career. All visual art forms are welcome, including paintings, printmaking, drawings, design, sculpture, film and photography. CCAI accept applications from artists with links to the island who may be working elsewhere as well as Channel Island artists.
The Jersey Summer Exhibition offers several prizes each year. Every artwork accepted into the exhibition is automatically considered for a prize and presentations take place in July at the Summer Prize awards night.
Each year CCA Galleries International invites a guest panel of professional artists to join the judging panel for the Jersey Summer Exhibition. These are artists of international acclaim who use their years of experience and knowledge to carefully deliberate the artworks selected for exhibition.
This year’s selection panel boasts another remarkable line-up. Joining CCA judges Gillian Duke and Tom Parker will be Wayne Hemingway and Adam Dant. We are honoured to work with Wayne and Adam this year and look forward to their insight.
The show runs through July 30th at CCA Galleries International, 10 Hill Street, St. Helier, with the gallery open to the public 12.00 - 6.00pm, Mon – Fri.
Wayne Hemingway
Wayne Hemingway is the co-founder of ‘Hemingway Design’ which is a multi-disciplinary design company which specialises in social design, founded with his wife Gerardine Hemingway.
‘Hemingway Design’ projects cover the full scope of design disciplines such as product design, regeneration, placemaking, clothing design, interior design and brand identity. They are designers focussed on “Place, people and positive social impact.” They have won prestigious awards such as Building Magazine’s Best Housing-Led Regeneration project and worked with Shelter, The National Archives, Historic England, The National Portrait Gallery, Southbank Centre, Landsec, and TFL, to name a few.
Wayne and Gerardine have worked together since the early 1980’s when they started ‘Red or Dead’ (the fashion designer and manufacturer which won the British Fashion Council’s Street Style award 3 years in a row in 1995, 1996 and 1997).
Adam Dant
Born in 1967 in Cambridge Adam Dant studied Fine Art Printmaking at The Royal College of Art, HDK Berlin and MS University, Baroda, India.
He was a recipient of The Rome Scholarship in printmaking in 1993, The Jerwood Drawing prize in 2002 and was appointed by HM UK Parliament as ‘The Official Artist of The 2015 UK General Election’. Dant is also a Regent of The College of Pataphysics, a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers and sits as an artist on The Royal Mint’s advisory committee.
From his Spitalfields studio by the walls of the City of London he has gained wide renown for his epic narrative ink drawings, maps, and ‘mockuments‘ which detail the myths and status of London’s Financial and historic heart as well as chronicling many other arcane events further afield.
Often working in close collaboration with significant institutions Dant has produced commissioned works of art for the opening of Bloomberg’s new Walbrook HQ , Queen Elizabeth ll’s Thames Jubilee pageant, Christie’s 250th anniversary, The Christopher Wren 2023 Tercentenary and the 900th anniversary of St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
As the artist / cartographer in residence for The Critic Magazine Dant’s resulting volume of ‘Maps of London and Beyond’ has garnered several publishing awards.
Adam Dant’s work is exhibited internationally and is in the collections of Tate Britain, The British Library, The V&A, MOMA New York, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Musee D’Art Contemporain Lyon, His Majesty King Charles lll , The Museum of London and various other public and private collections.
The Jersey Summer Exhibition is the biggest open-call art exhibition in the Channel Islands, running June through to the end of July.
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