{"id":2396,"date":"2016-12-09T16:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2016-12-09T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:33:39","slug":"ba-hons-fine-art-graduate-daniel-owusu-wins-the-prestigious-2016-platform-graduate-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2016\/12\/09\/ba-hons-fine-art-graduate-daniel-owusu-wins-the-prestigious-2016-platform-graduate-award\/","title":{"rendered":"BA (Hons) Fine Art graduate Daniel Owusu wins the prestigious 2016 Platform Graduate Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2399\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/12\/danielimage-e1481301190186.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2399 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/12\/danielimage-e1481301190186.jpg\" alt=\"danielimage\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Owusu, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to announce that BA (Hons) Fine Art graduate <strong><em>Daniel Owusu<\/em><\/strong> has won the prestigious Platform Graduate Award for 2016, and was presented with his award, a \u00a32500 bursary and a year of mentorship from an arts professional, on 7<sup>th<\/sup> December at the Turner Contemporary. Having been selected to go forward from the South East regional exhibition at the Turner, Daniel was competing in the final against students from the\u00a0universities of\u00a0Northampton,\u00a0Brighton, Reading\u00a0and Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe had another year of excellent graduate work and all those selected this year should be very proud of their achievements,\u201d said Cara Courage, Contemporary Visual Arts Network, South East Manager.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Platform Graduate Award showcases and mentors the very best of young and emerging artists in the south east. Daniel is the second School of Music and Fine Art student to win this award, with Fine Art graduate Sophie Dixon winning in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>There is an interview with Daniel in the recent issue of Kent Alumni magazine (page 9).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/alumni\/news\/kent\/1611.html\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/alumni\/news\/kent\/1611.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more info on SMFA\u2019s success in the awards see the following news items:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=2222\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=2222<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1658\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1658<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1528\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1528<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For details on the 2014 awards, and winner, Sophie Dixon, go to \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvan.org.uk\/news\/2014\/11\/10\/sophie-dixon-wins-2014-platform-graduate-award\">http:\/\/www.cvan.org.uk\/news\/2014\/11\/10\/sophie-dixon-wins-2014-platform-graduate-award<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We are delighted to announce that BA (Hons) Fine Art graduate Daniel Owusu has won the prestigious Platform Graduate Award for 2016, and was presented with his award, a \u00a32500 bursary and a year of mentorship from an arts professional, on 7th December at the Turner Contemporary. Having been selected to go forward from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2016\/12\/09\/ba-hons-fine-art-graduate-daniel-owusu-wins-the-prestigious-2016-platform-graduate-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BA (Hons) Fine Art graduate Daniel Owusu wins the prestigious 2016 Platform Graduate Award<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24626,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}