David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Grant 2023
12 - 22 September 2023

Eloise Hawser (b.1985, London) has been announced as the recipient of the 2023 David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Grant. The grant gives £50,000 to an artist to help alleviate some of their financial pressures and give them freedom to concentrate on their practice.  A special second grant of £10,000 was awarded to Lea Andrews (b. 1958 Oxfordshire). The announcement was made at at Annely Juda Fine Art in London on 12 September 2023.

This year's curator was artist Alison Wilding. The 2023 shortlisted artists were: Lea Andrews, Roderick Coyne, Kate Davis & David Moore, Jessie Flood-Paddock, Ana Genovés, Eloise Hawser, Robert Holyhead, Sam Porritt.  For the first time, an exhibition of work by all of the shortlisted artists is being held at Annely Juda, from 13 – 22 September 2023.

This year the panel of judges was made up of the Foundation’s trustees, David and Yuko Juda, Nina Fellmann, Rupert Faulkner and Paul Calkin, joined by Andrea Rose (Former Director of Visual Arts, British Council), Reinhard Spieler (Director of the Sprengel Museum, Hannover) Jonathan Watkins (former Director of IKON, Birmingham) and Andrew Wilson (art historian, critic and former curator at Tate Britain).

Alison Wilding is known for her multi-media often large-scale sculpture. Major solo exhibitions have been held at the De La Warr Pavilion, Brighton; Serpentine Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Gallery, Liverpool. Her works are in major public spaces and collections in the UK and internationally and she has taught extensively.

The 2022 David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Grant of £ 50,000 was given to Brian Dawn Chalkley

Brian Dawn Chalkley (b. 1948, London. Lives and works in London) is a visual and performance artist, storyteller and teacher. Formative in the trans community since the early 90s, the artist is known for their performances as Dawn a leading role in London’s underground trans clubbing scene in the 1980s and 90s, a time when it was deemed unacceptable and perverse. Now in their 70s, Brian Dawn Chalkley has been exploring gender, sexuality and identity for more than four decades, first in private and then in their art.

This year the co-curators of the grant are Ingrid Swenson, curator and writer, and Andrew Wilson art historian, critic and curator and the shortlisted artists were: Savinder Bual (b. 1976, Hitchin, England), Brian Dawn Chalkley (b. 1948, Stevenage, England), Lubna Chowdhary (b. 1964, Tanzania), Angela de la Cruz (b. 1965 La Coruña, Spain), Sean Edwards (b. 1980, Cardiff, Wales), Siobhán Hapaska (b. 1963, Belfast, Northern Ireland), Hilary Lloyd (b. 1964, Halifax, England), and Avis Newman (b. 1948, London, England).

The 2022 panel of judges was made up of the Foundation’s trustees, David and Yuko Juda, Nina Fellmann, Rupert Faulkner and Paul Calkin, joined by Andrea Rose (Former Director of Visual Arts, British Council), Reinhard Spieler (Director of the Sprengel Museum, Hannover) and Jonathan Watkins (former Director of IKON, Birmingham).

The 2021 David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Grant of £ 50,000 was given to Amikam Toren at a reception on 15 December 2021. A special extra grant of £ 10,000 went to Rie Nakajima.

Amikam Toren (b. 1945)  is a significant figure in British conceptual art, who explores the conceptual and material framework that defines art. Since the 1970s, Toren has been producing artworks that look at the relation between form and content, object and representation, and between the languages of sculpture and painting. With a keen eye for the everyday and overlooked, and an interest in language and the process of interpretation, he scours his own studio and street and antique markets for his materials. 

Rie Nakajima (b. 1976) is a Japanese artist working with installations and performances that produce sound. Her works are most often composed in direct response to unique architectural spaces using a combination of kinetic devices and found objects. Fusing sculpture and sound, her artistic practice is open to chance and the influence of others, raising important questions about the definition of art.

The curator for the 2021 grant was Jonathan Watkins, Director of IKON Gallery, Birmingham, and the nominated artists were Langlands and Bell, Susan Collis, Jeff McMillan, Mali Morris, Rie Nakajima, Perry Roberts, Amikam Toren and Alison Turnbull. The panel of judges was made up of the charity's trustees: David and Yuko Juda, Rupert Faulkner and Nina Fellmann and three expert judges: Andrea Rose, former Director of Visual Arts at the British Council; Andrew Wilson, Former Senior Curator at Tate Britain; Reinhard Spieler, Director of the Sprengel Museum, Hanover.

The 2019 David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Grant of £ 50,000 was given to Zineb Sedira on 12 September 2019. 

Zineb Sedira was born in Paris in 1963. She received a BA from Central Saint Martins School of Art, London, in 1995 and MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 1997, and subsequently studied photography at the Royal College of Art, London. Sedira’s multiple identities as a French-born Algerian living in England inform her serene, often haunting photographs and video installation, which consider questions of memroy, displacement, and the transmission of history. The body of work presented here, entitled “Laughter in Hell”, is an extract from her current focus in the horrors of the 80s and 90s in Algeria. 

The David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation was set up as a Charity in 2017, for the purpose of making an annual award of £50,000 to one artist. This award is given to help artists alleviate some of their financial pressures and give them more freedom to concentrate on their practise. It will be an annual event and should not be restricted to a specific age or nationality of the recipient.

Each year, a curator will be appointed to put forward between 8 to 15 artists for the award. A panel of judges, made up of the charity’s trustees and a selection of guest judges, art experts from various institutions, will decide to whom the award will be given.  

The curator for the 2019 grant was Anthony Reynolds and the nominated artists were Ian Bourn, Clodagh Emoe, Andreas  R. Kassapis, Sally O’Reilly, Katie Paterson, Zineb Sedira, Blast Theory, Padraig Timoney. The panel of judges was made up of the charity’s five trustees: David and Yuko Juda, Paul Calkin, Rupert Faulkner and Nina Fellmann and three expert judges: Andrea Rose, former Director of Visual Arts at the British Council; Andrew Wilson, Senior Curator at Tate Britain; Reinhard Spieler, Director of the Sprengel Museum, Hanover.

The 2018 David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Grant of £ 50,000 was given to Kathy Prendergast. A special second grant of £ 10,000 went to Imogen Stidworthy.

The first grant was presented on 7 September 2018. The curator for the 2018 grant was Richard Grayson and the nominated artists were Sonia Boyce, Adam Chodzko, Benedict Drew, Graham Gussin, Joanna Kirk, Aleksandra Mir, Kathy Prendergast and Imogen Stidworthy. The panel of judges was made up of the charity’s five trustees: David and Yuko Juda, Paul Calkin, Rupert Faulkner and Nina Fellmann; and three expert judges: Andrea Rose, former Director of Visual Arts at the British Council; Andrew Wilson, Senior Curator at Tate Britain; Reinhard Spieler, Director of the Sprengel Museum, Hanover.