Andipa Contemporary, in collaboration with the Royal British Society of Sculptors, is proud to announce the winners of Spotlight 2013: Rebecca Newnham, William Mackrell and Janne Malmros. This programme provides a valuable platform for emerging and mid-career artists. The three categories of the Spotlight 2013 competition are Sculpture, Video/Performance and Installation. Andipa Contemporary will host a solo exhibition for each of the winning artists as part of their 2013 programme and will present their work to international, private and institutional collectors.

WINNER—SCULPTURE: Rebecca Newnham
WINNER—VIDEO & PERFORMANCE: William Mackrell
WINNER—INSTALLATION: Janne Malmros

WINNER—SCULPTURE: Rebecca Newnham
Energy Principle—16–28 September 2013
Rebecca Newnham creates sculptures out of bronze, fibreglass, steel and glass. Her work is dynamic, geometric and yet organic in form. Her interest in scientific laws, energy, and thermodynamics, inspires the fluidity and almost spiritual quality of her work. Energy Principle will examine entropy and look at the ways in which energy transforms itself but is never destroyed.

Though she usually works on a monumental scale, Energy Principle will comprise smaller works with organic curves, strong lines and reflective surfaces that respond to light and compliment the interior in which they sit. Her larger, more site-specific works make for interesting interactions with their surroundings, exposing details such as wind direction, the flow of water and light reflection. The dynamic nature of her work within their serene settings invites the viewer to experience something of a spiritual quality.

WINNER—VIDEO & PERFORMANCE: William Mackrell
Lullaby—30 September–12 October 2013
The epic and sublime are central to William Mackrell’s practice. He works to challenge the near impossible, creating an unravelling process which becomes itself the content. By using repetitive strategies in his actions, he measures the physicality of his presence and considers how the extraordinary can stem from these accumulative endeavours. Venturing between the plausible and the absurd, he stretches metaphorical actions to breaking point. Often there is humour, triggered from his encounter with the absurd. He allows for the unexpected to enter into his work, rupturing the process to produce something new that can elevate the original intention. Mackrell also questions language’s inability to document the progression of human existence, questioning how the organic struggles to mould with the mechanical. As part of his exhibition at Andipa Gallery, Mackrell will present Deux Chevaux as a live event.

WINNER—INSTALLATION: Janne Malmros
Nothing Endures But Change—28 October – 9 November 2013
Janne Malmros’ solo exhibition Nothing Endures But Change Malmros explores notions of change, potentiality and becoming. Malmros’ work is characterised by strong interests in botany, entomology, geometry, history, folklore and pattern. Investigation, experimentation and installation each play an important part in her work. Her choice of materials is informed by research and the idea underlying each individual project. The printed element is often the starting point for a three-dimensional work, which employs careful cutting and folding to explore the potential of repeated pattern, volume, space, surface and shadow. Malmros uses assemblage, adaptation and repetition in a range of media including drawing, print-making, animation, collage and elements of photographic and sculptural processes.