NEW BLOOD ART EMERGING ART PRIZE 2023

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New Blood partnered with StART art fair over Frieze week, 11 – 15th October 2023 to present the inaugural New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize at Saatchi Gallery London - with thanks to Founders David and Serenella Ciclitira for their support and for their work to date supporting emerging arts inaugurating numerous emerging and graduate art prizes, their support meant that these outstanding fledgling emerging artists, hand-picked by tutors across the UK gained fabulous exposure at the fair in 2023.

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New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize Shortlisted Artists:
 

37 emerging artists from over 100 nominees were shortlisted from art institutions across the UK to show at Saatchi Gallery:
 

Sophie Rice 
Jasmine Blakeway 
John Sillince 
Poppy Critchlow 
Estelle Simpson 
Lizzie Henson 
Liv Fox 
Emily Maguire 
Stella Zozi 
Joana Simaes 
Edward Jones 
Nancy Martin 
Jai James 

Remi Jablecki 
Lydia Carter 
Sean Davidson 
Eleanor Whitbread 
Aurelie Meriel 

Freya Povlsen 
Alexander Ardisson
Katie Fiszman 
You Liang Zhu 
Nick Joyce 
Emma McElreavey 
Anna Sellen 

Leticia Ferreira 
Rosie Nicholson
Daniel Talbot-Mason 
Toby Wills-Hart 
Octavia Madden 
Haneen Hadiy 
Pipi-Lotta Kulla 
Nikoline Sonasson 
Aislinn Evans 
Sophie Lloyd 
Iulia Hulea 

 

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New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize Winner 2023 Sophie Lloyd

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Sophie Lloyd graduated in 2023 from her BA at City and Guilds of London. Her primary medium is sculpture, in which she manipulates sugar, particularly fondant icing, to explore how we consume and how we are consumed in turn. Her works resemble stained glass windows, with the lead caming holding the pieces together. Instead of being large and regal, they are small in size and reference fairground caricatures and renaissance sugar sculptures. They represent temporality and the calculated self that is portrayed in entertainment, often fuelled by a great instinctive hunger derived from consumerism. Lloyd creates pieces that are tactile and bodily and seem to be aware of their own deterioration but express a desire for more. 

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Artist Statement
 

The Live Show’ and ‘The Live Show: on demand’ is an ongoing piece much like a series of dramas which changes as characters rise and fall. 

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My work is about things we consume and how they consume us. The sculptures with their shoddy facade of stained-glass references fairground scams, characters of entertainment, and sugar sculptures of renaissance banquets. As a crowd of sugar sculptures, they line up, mouths open, awaiting their final blow while the dramatics of degrading sugar plays out. Together the figures portray the temporality within an algorithmic self whose reality is set in entertainment. Their façades are tinged with an authentic body that sees their own predicament; the desire to have more even when they are full and their subsequent deterioration. The work critiques the controlling grip of consumerism whilst exploring the tipping willingness of the consumer to let it take hold.

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