THE JAMEEL PRIZE 2011
Organisation: Victoria and Albert Museum
Time: 21 July 2011 10:00am - 25 September 2011 5:45pm
Place: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
V&A Presents
THE JAMEEL PRIZE 2011
The V&A presents a selecion of works shortlisted for this year's Jameel Prize, a bi-annual £25,000 international art prize for contemporary artists and designers inspired by Islamic traditions of art, craft and design.
The exhibition features over 20 works that draw strongly on the artists' and designers' own local and regional traditions, celebrating particular materials and iconography with strong references to traditional Islamic art. The works range from felt costumes to sculpture made from hand-made terracotta bricks and from mirror mosaic to digital collages. In much of the work there is an underlying reference to the artists' own 'hybrid' cultural identity; the mix of old and new, minimalism versus ornament, tradition and modernity, and home versus exile.
The winner of the Jameel Prize 2011 will be announced at the V&A on 12 September 2011. There will also be a talk by the competition judge Venetia Porter on 14 September 2011, 13:15 at the V&A.
Until 25 September 2011
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 2RL
Opening Hours: Daily, 10:00-17:45 | Fridays, 10:00-22:00