Top Emerging Talents of 2023

Description

Rising Stars is a curated, national platform to foster and champion talent and early career makers, students and graduates from BA and MA crafts, design and applied arts programmes across the UK. Rising Stars offers the makers a first step into the professional exhibitions. It is also an exciting collector opportunity for those wishing to support and collect work by future stars. The programme will consist of the Rising Stars exhibition; a catalogue and early career maker business skills events, as relevant to the current market place, impacted by the cost of living crisis.

Following a popular open call, the shortlisted makers for the Rising Stars 2023 are:

Jiro Ametani, Shannon Ellis Baker, Jarrad Belton, Faye Bentley, Viki Benwell, Luciana Bšhm, Harry Chadwick, Guy Conners, Lisa Ghiggini, Amy Findlay, Lulu Harrison, Ismail Kamran, Nancy Main, Celia MacPherson, Natalie McCormack, Shakhina Mirjonova, Helen Munday, Chris Murphy, Parneet Pahwa, Rachel Peters, Helena Roberts, Samantha Sloane, Gow Tanaka and …mer …ner.

We recognise there is a lack of representation from Black, Asian, and ethnically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ makers and makers who identify as having a visible or non-visible disability in the southeast region. To address this imbalance, 29% of Rising Stars makers are from one of the underrepresented groups, making it a great and diverse showcase of early career talent.

The 2023 judges are Dan Goode (Making Goode), Dr Outi Remes (New Ashgate Gallery), Sharon Ting (University for the Creative Arts, Textiles) and Debra Allman (UCA). One of the makers will be presented with a professional development award and a solo exhibition at New Ashgate, Farnham. The exhibition is open from 11 March to 24 April 2023.

Rising Stars 2023 is organised by New Ashgate Gallery Trust in partnership with the University for the Creative Arts and Dan Goode of Making Goode. It is supported by Billmeir Charitable Trust.

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