The Red Mansion Art Prize Exhibition 2020

Royal Academy | Weston Studio | Burlington Gardens | London | W1S 3ET

Due to the government’s guidelines to close all museums on 17 March the life of this exhibition was cut short. We would like to offer these images of the works to those of you who didn’t have an opportunity to see the show in situ.

To mark its 20th anniversary, The Red Mansion Foundation arranged for the Heads of School and Programme Leaders to travel to China, and to produce a body of work inspired by their travels.

Eliza Bonham Carter

Royal Academy Schools

Eliza Bonham Carter is Curator and Head of the Royal Academy Schools, a position she has held since 2006. She is also Vice Chair of Camden Arts Centre. Bonham Carter’s work normally takes the form of painting, but on going to China she took the opportunity to take steps into digital and image-based media, recording a train journey across China at 300km an hour from East to West. Bonham Carter studied fine art at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, and completed her MA at the Royal College of Art.

Anthony Gardner

The Ruskin School of Art

Anthony Gardner is Head of the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen’s College. He is also a foreign worker in the UK. His research explores the intersections of contemporary art and politics, with particular emphasis on installation, performance, exhibitions and cultural Politically infrastructures. His books include Unbecoming: Postsocialist Art Against (MIT Press, 2015); the Democracy Neue Slowenische Kunst: From anthology (MIT Press, 2015), with Kapital To Capital Zdenka Badovinac and Eda Čufer; and Biennials, Triennials and documenta: The Exhibitions That Created Contemporary Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), co-written with Charles Green.

David Mabb

Goldsmiths College

David Mabb works with appropriated imagery to rethink the political implications of different aesthetic forms in modern art and design history. His work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at Bildmuseet, Umea (2016-17); Z33, Hasselt (2017); and Konstmuseum, Malmö (2018). Solo exhibitions include the William Morris Gallery, London (2015); Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2014); and Delaware Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington (2010). Mabb teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London where he is Reader in Art and Programme Co-Director MFA Fine Art.

Martin Newth

Chelsea College of Arts

Martin Newth is an artist and Programme Director of Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts. He studied at Newcastle University and the Slade School of Fine Art. Primarily using photography, but also video and nstallation, Newth explores the processes by which works are made and the material properties of photography. Solo and group exhibitions include MEWO Kunsthalle,Germany (2018); Chongqing Creative Festival, Chongqing (2016); Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2013); George and Jørgen, London (2011); Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin (2008); and Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2007).

Kieren Reed

Slade School of Fine Art

Kieren Reed’s practice encompasses sculpture, public art, performance and installation, from studies in form to the production of architectural structures. His art is often linked to a process, place or a consideration of a space or situation. Recent projects include Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2016); Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury (2015); Tate Modern, London (2014); Tate Britain, London (2013); Whitstable Biennial (2012); and Camden Arts Centre, London (2010). Reed works both individually and in collaboration with the artist Abigail Hunt. He is Director at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

Alex Schady

Central Saint Martins

Alex Schady playfully challenges romantic notions of the artist and creativity through sculpture, video and performance. Drawing on pop culture, melodrama and science fiction his practice investigates constructions of masculinity and emotional excess, as well as how seemingly incompatible media can coexist. In 1998 Schady co-founded the gallery space Five Years to explore the relationship between programming, curation and practice. He received his BA (Hons) in Fine Art and a MFA in Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University, and is currently director of Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.

Jo Stockham

Royal College of Art

Jo Stockham is Professor and Head of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. Her practice is installation-based, often dealing with the histories of a site, using sculpture, sound projection, found materials and digital technologies. In 1989 she was Henry Moore Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, which led to solo shows at Kettle’s Yard and Camden Arts Centre. More recently she has exhibited at Matt’s Gallery, London (2018); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2017); Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (2017); and Arnolfini, Bristol (1998). Stockham studied Painting at Falmouth School of Art and holds a Master’s degree in Sculpture from Chelsea College of Arts.

The Red Mansion Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation which promotes dialogue between Great Britain and China. The Art Prize was established in 2000 to encourage artistic exchange between these two countries. Seven of the UK’s foremost art colleges take part in the annual competition: Royal Academy Schools, Royal College of Art, Chelsea College of Art, Central Saint Martins, Slade School of Fine Art, Goldsmiths and The Ruskin School of Art.

For more information please visit www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/free-display-red-mansion-anniversary-art-prize-2020

Eliza Bonham Carter

Red Mansion Anniversary Art Prize Exhibition, 2020
Eliza Bonham Carter, Somewhere Between Shanghai and Chengu, 2019
Courtesy of the artist
Photograph by Andy Keate

Anthony Gardner

Red Mansion Anniversary Art Prize Exhibition, 2020
Anthony Gardner (with Meitong Chen and Huw Hallam), I Am A Revolutionary (Apologies to Carey Young), 2020
Courtesy of the artist and collaborators
Photograph by Andy Keate

David Mabb

ed Mansion Anniversary Art Prize Exhibition, 2020
David Mabb, In Search of Chairman Mao: 12 Days in Beijing, 2019-20
Courtesy the artist
Photograph by Andy Keate

Martin Newth

Red Mansion Anniversary Art Prize Exhibition, 2020
Martin Newth, Yangshou, 2020
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Photograph by Andy Keate

Kieren Reed

Red Mansion Anniversary Art Prize Exhibition, 2020
Kieren Reed, Normality is constructed, 2020
Courtesy of the artist
Photograph by Andy Keate

Alex Schady

Red Mansion Anniversary Art Prize Exhibition, 2020
Alex Schady (with translation by Sizou Chen), 18 Minutes of Crying in my Hotel Room, 2020
Courtesy of the artist
Photograph by Andy Keate

Jo Stockham

Red Mansion Anniversary Art Prize Exhibition, 2020
Jo Stockham, Symbiosis, 2020
Courtesy of the artist
Photograph by Andy Keate

The Red Mansion Foundation is grateful to Andy Keate for producing all images.