Clare Bottomley, Baptistim, Courtesy the artist
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Clare Bottomley, St. Francis, Courtesy the artist
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Ahoy! Animation, Still from “The House with No Doors” by Oana Nechifor. Courtesy the artist
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Ahoy! Animation, Still from “The House with No Doors” by Oana Nechifor. Courtesy the artist
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Nikolas Ventourakis, Billboard 1, from “Leaving Utopia”. Courtesy the artist
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Nikolas Ventourakis, Lunch, from “Leaving Utopia”. Courtesy the artist
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The “Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprises”
are a real success story. Since 1993, a total of 165 projects developed by young
British creative people have received awards. This year’s winners were
recently announced. The recipients range from the photographers Clare Bottomley and Nikolas Ventourakis to the experimental acrobatic group Barely Methodical Troupe to Ahoy! Animation, a collective that makes animated films.
The “Deutsche Bank Awards” support artists, designers, performers, and craftspeople after
they graduate from college, at the interface between their studies and
careers. Although they may have promising ideas, many graduates lack
the financial means and business acumen to implement their plans and
projects in reality. Therefore, the winners not only receive prize
money amounting to GBP 10,000 to launch their project, but also receive business training
and are supported for a year by a personal business mentor. They
are not the only ones benefitting from the initiative. Some 300
additional students throughout Great Britain receive training to
familiarise themselves with entrepreneurial thinking.
This year’s Deutsche Bank Award in Art went to Clare Bottomley, who studied at the Royal College of Art.
The photographer, who in her staged self-portraits deals with themes
such as corporeality, self-perception, and religion, is also works as
an educator. She is planning an experimental film that she will create
together with young people with disabilities. Leaving Utopia,
a project by Nikolas Ventourakis, engages with the economic crisis in
Greece. The winner of the Deutsche Bank Award in Photography graduated
from University of the Arts London. The architecture award was given to RAAD (Radical Architecture, Activist Design). The collective from the Liverpool School of Art and Design
promotes the reuse of urban spaces, working closely with the
communities within the respective locations. There were a total of 15
winners this year. The awards ceremony will take place on September 4
in the new Dyson Gallery of the London Royal College of Art. The
“Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprises” are part of the new corporate citizenship
programme “Born to Be,”
launched this year by Deutsche Bank to strengthen its commitment to youth and
young adults in Great Britain, helping them to reach their
potential.
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