NEW BLOOD ART EMERGING ART PRIZE 2023
New Blood partnered with StART art fair over Frieze week, 11 – 15th October 2023 to present the inaugural New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize at Saatchi Gallery London - with thanks to Founders David and Serenella Ciclitira for their support and for their work to date supporting emerging arts inaugurating numerous emerging and graduate art prizes, their support meant that these outstanding fledgling emerging artists, hand-picked by tutors across the UK gained fabulous exposure at the fair in 2023.
37 emerging artists from over 100 nominees were shortlisted from art institutions across the UK to show at Saatchi Gallery.
Shortlisted Artists:
Sophie Rice
Jasmine Blakeway
John Sillince
Poppy Critchlow
Estelle Simpson
Lizzie Henson
Liv Fox
Emily Maguire
Stella Zozi
Joana Simaes
Edward Jones
Nancy Martin
Jai James
Remi Jablecki
Lydia Carter
Sean Davidson
Eleanor Whitbread
Aurelie Meriel
Freya Povlsen
Alexander Ardisson
Katie Fiszman
You Liang Zhu
Nick Joyce
Emma McElreavey
Anna Sellen
Leticia Ferreira
Rosie Nicholson
Daniel Talbot-Mason
Toby Wills-Hart
Octavia Madden
Haneen Hadiy
Pipi-Lotta Kulla
Nikoline Sonasson
Aislinn Evans
Sophie Lloyd
Iulia Hulea
The 2023 Judges:
Anita Taylor joined Serenella Ciclitira and Sarah Ryan in judging the 2023 prize. Anita Taylor is an artist, Professor, and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee. She is the founding Director of the foremost annual drawing exhibition in the UK, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize [since 1994], and Drawing Projects UK, a public-facing initiative dedicated to drawing [since 2009].
The inaugural New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize exhibition was held at the Saatchi Gallery in London during Frieze week 2023:
