EVOLVER PRIZE 2011: 9 July-10 September

Thelma Hulbert Gallery
Elmfield House, Dowell Street, Honiton, Devon, EX14 1LX
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Evolver Prize 2011- 9th July to 10th September

`Evolver` Magazine

Artists, photographers and graphic designers compete annually for the prize of having their work published on the front cover of the July / August edition of Evolver, the Wessex Arts and Culture Guide. The Thelma Hulbert Gallery is hosting the Evolver Prize 2011 which will comprise of the winning Evolver cover and the 49 runners-up. The Evolver Prize is the ideal way to discover the diverse talents of Wessex based artists.

Running parallel to this exhibition will be a display of mini-Evolver covers designed by young people. The artworks produced by the young people will be sold for £10 each, with the proceeds funding artists to work with the THG youth group, Masterpieces, and enabling the group to continue through to 2012.

Deadline for this competition was Friday 27th May, 2011

Cleo Mussi in her studio

24 September 2011 - 12 November 2011

Cleo Mussi: Pharma's Market

Cleo Mussi is an established Mosaic Artist and respected within the Applied Arts both Nationally and Internationally. Originally training at Goldsmiths in the late 80’s.

Pharma’s Market is a mosaic installation by internationally renowned mosaic artist Cleo Mussi. A culmination of two years research exploring the contrasting imagery of historical and contemporary farming, this exhibition connects traditional ideas about food, agriculture and animal husbandry with modern developments in stem cell research and genetic modification. Although the setting of the exhibition is a traditional agricultural fair, visitors will experience an exhibition with a distinctly contemporary twist.

Cleo has an engaging story to tell, and her characters, from life-sized ‘robo-rabbits’ to ‘space scientists’ and ‘bucolic’ farmers, all jostle for their part in the plot. Her stories are derived from the real world of science and medicine, albeit reconstructed through the process of her own particular visual imagination. Using recycled china to make her extraordinary figures, her surreal sense of humour is where she has made her mark. It’s as if the pieces of china become fragments of DNA in her own genetic rearrangements of nature.

Pharma's Market from Cleo Mussi on Vimeo.

Update to the Evolver Prize Competition - the winner is!.......

Over 280 works were entered for this year’s competition, in many and varied forms. The winning entry for 2011 was “A Portrait of The Artist By A Young Dog,” by photographer Andrew Bolton. Visitor’s can vote for any work they prefer in The Visitor’s Choice ballot, and the artist who receives the most votes in this category will be featured in a future edition of Evolver.