London Awards for Art and Performance
Encyclopedia
The London Awards for Art and Performance is awarded in 11 different art
categories, by the London Festival Fringe
.
It is awarded each year, at a central London
venue, and is presented to artist
s and performers who have made an outstanding contribution to their art form.
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
categories, by the London Festival Fringe
London Festival Fringe
The London Fringe Festival is a fringe festival that promotes art and theatre in London, England. In addition to helping artists and performers stage their work, the festival runs a series of awards in Jazz Music, Theatre , Comedy and Film.-Origins:...
.
It is awarded each year, at a central London
Central London
Central London is the innermost part of London, England. There is no official or commonly accepted definition of its area, but its characteristics are understood to include a high density built environment, high land values, an elevated daytime population and a concentration of regionally,...
venue, and is presented to artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
s and performers who have made an outstanding contribution to their art form.
Awards
| Year | Category | Winner | |
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| 2011 | Art | Douglas Gordon Douglas Gordon Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist; he won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale... |
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| 2011 | Best Play | Precious Little Talent | |
| 2011 | Book | Stuart Evers "Ten Stories About Smoking" | |
| 2011 | Comedy | Zoe Lyons Zoe Lyons -Stand-up Career:Lyons graduated from the University of York in 1992 with a degree in psychology; in 2004 she was crowned winner of the Funny Women Awards. Since then, she has toured the UK stand up circuit, as well as playing regular gigs in London and Brighton... |
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| 2011 | Dance | Balletboyz | |
| 2011 | Film | Submarine, Richard Ayoade Richard Ayoade Richard Ellef Ayoade is a British comedian, actor, writer and director best known for his role as Maurice Moss in The IT Crowd.Ayoade was born an only child to a Norwegian mother, Dagny , and a Nigerian father, Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade. Ayoade studied at St... |
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| 2011 | Jazz | Julian Siegel Julian Siegel Julian Siegel is a UK Born Jazz Saxophone and Clarinet player, writer and arranger.Siegel has toured and recorded with Greg Cohen and Joey Baron and was awarded the BBC Jazz Awards 2007 for Best Instrumentalist.... |
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| 2011 | Music | Wild Beasts Wild Beasts Wild Beasts are an indie rock band from Kendal in Cumbria. They released their first single, "Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants", on Bad Sneakers Records in November 2006, and subsequently signed to Domino Records. They have released three acclaimed albums, Limbo, Panto in 2008, Two Dancers in... |
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| 2011 | Photography | Nadav Kander Nadav Kander Nadav Kander is a London based photographer, artist and director, internationally renowned for his portraiture and landscapes. His work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Kander's work is also exhibited in numerous... |
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| 2011 | Poetry | Michael Longley Michael Longley Michael Longley, CBE is a Northern Irish poet from Belfast.-Life and career:Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus... |
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| 2010 | Art | Andrew Hladky | |
| 2010 | Best Play | A Christmas Carol | |
| 2010 | Comedy | Don Biswas | |
| 2010 | Dance | Balletboyz | |
| 2010 | Film | 3 Lives, Team Alma | |
| 2010 | Jazz Vocalist | Norma Winstone Norma Winstone Norma Ann Winstone MBE is a British jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her wordless improvisations.... , Cleveland Watkiss Cleveland Watkiss Cleveland Watkiss is a versatile English singer who performs in a variety of musical genres, including jazz, reggae, rock music and drum and bass. Watkiss also performs on piano and guitar.-Life:... |
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| 2010 | Jazz Instrumentalist | John Turville | |
| 2010 | Music | New Cut Gang | |
| 2010 | Photography | Daisy Meadows Daisy Meadows Daisy Meadows is a pseudonym for the various writers of the Rainbow Magic books for younger children, which star fairies, such as: The Rainbow Fairies, Weather, Party, Pet, Jewels, Fun Day, Petal, Dancing, Sporty, Music, Magical Animal, Green, Ocean, Twilight, Show Time, Princess, Pop Star, Video... |
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| 2010 | Poetry | Carrie Etter Carrie Etter -Life:Originally from Normal, Illinois, she moved to Southern California at the age of 19, and on to London in 2001.Etter holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Irvine... |
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| 2010 | Short Fiction | Jennifer Thorp | |
| 2010 | Theatre Writing | Benedict Fogarty, Drawing the Curtains | |
| 2009 | Music | Kit Richardson | |
| 2009 | Short Fiction | Through a Glass Darkly, Alex Burger | |
| 2009 | Film | ||
| 2009 | Photography | Daniel Lane | |
| 2009 | Comedy | Jo Selby |