I was delighted to receive the news this month that I was one of the six winners of the Homiens Art Prize for Summer 2024. The Homiens Art Prize is an international, non-acquisitive art prize open to all artists and art forms. It celebrates artists across all media, exhibiting their art online where it is viewed by artists and collectors in the United States and throughout the world. The work is selected by a panel of jurors and each round 6 winning artists are chosen.
The judges said of my work “ Gail eschews the sectarian tensions associated with her subject, the Troubles, by devising an ameliorative visual language: One that is suggestive of reverence and peace, without appealing in any identifiable way to a specific ideology. Instead of using colour to forge connection and create meaning, Ritchie uses symbols with a shared and well-established meaning (a wreath, for example) which precedes the Troubles, and avoids reference to more detailed symbols recognizably associated with either side of the conflict”.
Not only did it feel like a validation to win such a prestigous prize, it felt quite unusual and welcome to receive detailed feedback on the selection process from the judges. General feedback was made available to all those who had submitted work and it was a very generous enterprize on their part. Often, work goes out into a void and the effort one puts in to applications is often in direct contrast to the work that goes into the response once it has been received. So horrah for Homiens! More of the same please. For more information see:
homiens.com/the-homiens-art-prize-summer-2024/
The judges said of my work “ Gail eschews the sectarian tensions associated with her subject, the Troubles, by devising an ameliorative visual language: One that is suggestive of reverence and peace, without appealing in any identifiable way to a specific ideology. Instead of using colour to forge connection and create meaning, Ritchie uses symbols with a shared and well-established meaning (a wreath, for example) which precedes the Troubles, and avoids reference to more detailed symbols recognizably associated with either side of the conflict”.
Not only did it feel like a validation to win such a prestigous prize, it felt quite unusual and welcome to receive detailed feedback on the selection process from the judges. General feedback was made available to all those who had submitted work and it was a very generous enterprize on their part. Often, work goes out into a void and the effort one puts in to applications is often in direct contrast to the work that goes into the response once it has been received. So horrah for Homiens! More of the same please. For more information see:
homiens.com/the-homiens-art-prize-summer-2024/
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