The Jarman Award, nominee,  London-based artist Elizabeth Price (UK, b. 1966, Bradford) creates richly layered, moving image works made specifically for gallery settings. Composed of a broad range of imagery sourced from analogue and digital photography, animation, and motion graphics, her works are often accompanied by scrolling text, narrated by a computerized voice and paired with music.

Price makes immersive video installations, which feature diverse historical materials including film and video footage, archival documents, plans and photographs and popular music. Her works are painstakingly produced, often taking over a year to complete, and she regularly revisits older pieces, creating new and updated versions. She punctuates the visual material on the screen with bold, graphic interventions. Texts and slogans recall the aesthetics of advertising as well as political propaganda and combine corporate and academic theories of the world, to create a strange ritualistic undertone. Aural motifs are created from the music and rhythm of finger clicks, claps, percussion and samples of vocal harmonies.

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In her multi-layered digital works Price restages overlooked histories and cultural and socio-political occurrences. Price’s videos raise questions of power, gender, value, and language and explore them in the shared space of technology and culture. Bringing together many new and acclaimed works, this exhibition engages with Price’s pre-occupations of technology, history, politics and pop music. f

Offering a comprehensive survey of the work and practice of UK film and video artists, and celebrating the rich and eclectic array of work emerging in recent years. The Jarman Award is a prestigious annual prize which recognises and supports the most innovative UK-based artists working with moving image which since its inception, has honoured the memory and legacy of pioneering British artist, activist and filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994). By shining a light on ground-breaking artist filmmakers working in the UK. An accolade that has gone to a remarkable list of contemporary creatives, such as Heather Phillipson, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Charlotte Prodger and Elizabeth Price – all of whom went on to be shortlisted or win the Turner Prize.

Elizabeth Price studied at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford and the Royal College of Art, London. In 2012 she won the Turner Prize for her solo exhibition, Here, at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. She is a recipient of the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award. Her work has been exhibited around Europe and the United states, including at Tate Britain, London; New Museum, New York; Contemporary Art Society, London; and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.

The Jarman Award was presented by Keith Whittle as part of a curated programme of artists’ moving image with support from Film London.