| Sheila
Wallis, who graduated from UCA Farnham this year, and was the holder of
an award funded by Guildford Arts
and Clyde & Co, has won the
prestigious 2009 Threadneedle Prize of £25,000.
She has also been appointed
artist in residence at the Watts Gallery. She
will be exhibiting at a future Art@Clyde&Co exhibition.
Derry-born, part-time NHS support worker Sheila Wallis has won the 2009
Threadneedle Prize, the largest art prize awarded by the public in the UK.
Sheila received a cheque for £25,000 from Simon Davies, Executive Chairman
of Threadneedle Investments, at a special Awards dinner held at the Mall
Galleries.
 Sheila’s
current work explores the human body, with an emphasis placed on
communicating a sense of the ‘creatureliness’ of the human condition. It
makes enquiry into the material, physical qualities of the medium, allowing
room for the viewer to experience a degree of freedom to feel as
well as think about the visual experience.
Self-portrait (above) was one of seven works shortlisted by a panel
of five artists (Michael Leonard, Cathy Lomax, Jock McFadyen, Nina Murdoch
and Daphne Todd) and one guest selector, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of
The Queen’s Pictures.
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