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The Christine Risley Award is a cash prize awarded by the Goldsmiths Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery to a graduating Goldsmiths student for outstanding work relating to textiles, in memory of Christine Risley.
The Christine Risley Award Winner 2024
Olivia Pelham
The Goldsmiths Textile Collection and Constance Howard Gallery are delighted to announce the 2024 Christine Risley Award Winner as BA Fine Art graduate, Olivia Pelham.
The judging panel was unanimous in its praise for Olivia’s installation, with our guest judge, Natasha Hoare (Senior Curator, Goldsmiths CCA), commenting:
"(Olivia’s) marshalling of affective qualities of light, sound, and sculpture to create an immersive and contemplative space was impressive. Equally striking was her craft and innovative use of weaving to create panels of suspended stones, and singular wrapped stone sculptures. She showed a commendable ability to meet the subject matter of the materiality of the South Sussex landscape and its geological strata, with a transcendental sense of time and our subjective position within it. The installation demonstrated maturity and synthesis, and we look forward to seeing more from her."
Olivia’s work will be on display at the Constance Howard Gallery, 23 September – 1 November 2024, Mon-Fri, 1-4pm. Opening reception 20 September, 6-8pm.
Find out about the Christine Risley Award
The Christine Risley Award is open to any final-year undergraduate student currently enrolled in the Art or Design Departments at Goldsmiths. The prize acknowledges the diversity and plurality of contemporary textile practice. Work must be practice-based / creative but may encompass any media.
Learn more about Goldsmiths’ Textile Collection and the Constance Howard Gallery
