School of Music and Fine Art Reader Shona Illingworth is among the 6 artists shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2016, with her work Westbound, which explores ideas of human emotion and memory.

The £10,000 art prize, named after Kent based artist and film-maker Derek Jarman, who died in 1994, is in its ninth year, and honours UK artists working with film, video and moving image in all its forms and keeping Jarman’s “spirit of experimentation, imagination and innovation” alive. The work of this year’s nominees spans short films, animations, YouTube collages and multi-screen installations.  All six shortlisted artists will be commissioned to produce new work for Channel 4’s short film series Random Acts and their art will tour 11 galleries around the UK.

Artist Shona Illingworth is Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Music and Fine Art.  She  works across sound, film, video, photography, drawing and painting. Major works using moving image and/or sound, take the form of gallery based and site specific installation. Her work combines interdisciplinary research (particularly with emerging neuropsychological models of memory and critical approaches to memory studies) with publicly engaged practice. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, the Wellcome Collection, London, the National Museum, Tirana and Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto and she has received high profile commissions from Film and Video Umbrella, the Hayward Gallery, London and Channel 4 Television.

For more information click https://www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/staff/staff-profiles/school/4Illingworth.html

For a short extract from Westbound click here: https://vimeo.com/167875207

For further info see: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/17/women-film-makers-dominate-jarman-award-shortlist-for-2016