academy noW 2012

About

academy noW is an independent yearly survey of recent graduates from the UK and Europe. What differentiates academy now from the existing mentoring exhibitions and awards, is that, by selecting artists from the UK and other European art colleges, it activates stimulating dialogues between the art capitals. academy now provides its artists with an international platform where all committee members have developed their careers beyond the UK and Europe, thus being able to offer artists the opportunity to establish and develop relationships on a much broader scale. At the end of the exhibition an artist is nominated by the committee members and awarded with the Damiani prize. academy noW is led by voluntary Members: Founder Laura Petrillo, IKT independent curator, art advisor and lecturer, London-Bologna Committee Members: David Bate, photographer and writer, London Ruth Dupre', artist and lecturer, London Silvia Evangelisti, Bologna Art Fair's artistic director and professor of Art Theory, University of Bologna MaŠ â€šgorzata Ludwisiak, Deputy director of the Muzeum Sztuki, curator and writer, Lodz Ian Rosenfeld, gallery founder and curator, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London Margherita Sprio, writer and senior lecturer of Film Theory at Westminster University, London