Harry Pye Awards 2018: WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Last night over 200 popped by The A Side B Side Gallery in Mare Street for the launch party of The Harry Pye Awards Sponsored by Joffe Books.

(Photo Below:) The winner of award for Best Album Sleeve went to Peter Harris

(Photo Below) The winner of The Best Newcomer Award went to Simon Love.

(Below) The winner of The Best Musician Award went to Richard Lamy

The winner of Best Live Act went to Sukie Smith

Below:The winner of Best Gallery went to The A Side B Side Gallery (which is run By Catherine Magnani)

The award of 2nd Best Artist of 2018 went to Mikey Georgeson for his painting, 'To My Mother, My Dog and Clowns'

The award for Best Artist of 2018 went to Raphael Pepper for his lino-cut, 'New York Twilight.'

Below: Best Artist Nominee Sarah Sparkes. In the background is Gordon Beswick's painting, 'Cropley Court'.

Below: A visitor poses with 'War is expensive. Peace is Priceless' by nominee Sandra Turnbull.

Below: Award Nominee: Harry Adams (a.k.a Steve Lowe)in the background is fellow nominee Sohrab Crews.

Below: The back of award nominee Geraldine Swayne's head

Below: 3 Best Artist Nominees James Lawson, Gordon Beswick and Mikey Georgeson.

Below: Harry Pye with Jackson D Ferguson

Below: Best Artist nominee Raksha Patel with her painting, Outside

Below: Best artist nominee, Rachael Robb hanging her painting, Bird.

(Photo Below):Best Artist Nominee Martin Brown whose painting is of a hooded figure in Tufnell Park.

Below: All of the artists nominated for their awards attended but not all of them like having their photo taken so here instead is a snap of some trophies..

Below: Simon Love and family

Five Useful Links...

1) The Prize money for the Best Artist Award and 2nd Best Artist Award was donated by Jasper Joffe of Joffe Books. Find out more about them by clicking: Here 2) Simon Love has a new album out on Tapete Records which you can find out about: here 3) Richard Lamy has a soundcloud thing which you can listen to: here 4) Sukie Smith is in the group Madam who you can learn more about: here 5) Peter Harris is an artist, musician and gentleman who you can read about: here

Above: "Everyone's A Winner Baby" The A Side B Side Gallery is open from 10am until 5pm. Work from The Harry Pye Awards For Art 2018 can be seen until the 4th of September. The A Side B side Gallery is a 2 minute walk from Hackney Central.

Triptych for sale

Above: 10 years ago Harry Pye, Rowland Smith and Marcus Cope worked together on a new version of Francis Bacon's 'Three Figures at The Base of a Crucifixion.' The painting was made for The Free Art Fair organised by Jasper Joffe.

Above: Harry Pye at the opening of The Free Art Fair 2008. The triptych was given away to a visitor to the Free Art Fair completely free of charge. The person who got it, kept it for a while and then eventually sold it to someone for £2000. That person no longer has the room to install it and wants to sell. If you're interested in buying it get in touch via: harry_pye@hotmail.com

Above: Jasper Joffe at The 3rd and final Free Art Fair which took place at The Barbican. The Free Art Fair featured many artists including; Matthew Collings, Stuart Cumberland, Adam Dant, Marlene Dumas, Rose Gibbs, Luke Gottelier, Peter Harris, James Jessop, Chantal Joffe, Jasper Joffe, Peter Lamb, Cathy Lomax, Bruce McLean, Alex Gene Morrison, Martin Sexton, Bob & Roberta Smith, Geraldine Swayne, Gavin Turk, and Stella Vine. For more info click: here

The Harry Pye Awards at The A Side B Side Gallery

The Harry Pye Awards is coming soon to The A-side B-side Gallery, 352 Mare Street, Hackney, London, E8 1HR

Amongst the names rumoured to be finally receiving the recognition they deserve are singer/songwriter Simon Love and banjo playing legend Ritchie Lamy.

We can confirm that the brilliant Sukie Smith will not only be accepting a special award but also performing two songs live. Everyone who comes to see this unique event is a winner as they will get to see fourteen works by fourteen exceptional artists; 1) Harry Adams,

2) Gordon Beswick,

3) Martin Brown,

4) Sohrab Crews,

5) Mikey Georgeson,

6) James Lawson,

7) Lee Maelzer,

8) Raksha Patel,

9) Raphael Pepper,

10) Rachael Robb,

11) Geraldine Swayne,

13) Sarah Sparkes,

and 13) Sandra Turnbull.

On Friday the 31st of August one of these nominees above will be going home with a Harry Pye Award for 'Best Painting or Print sponsored by Joffe Books'.

FIND: A-side B-side Gallery is located in Hackney central opposite Marks & Spencer TRAVEL: For public transport the closest station is: Hackney central station PARKING: Parking in the road near the gallery is restricted to dropping off & loading only. Or there is a Tesco car park nearby where you can park up to 1hr 30mins. The show will be put up at lunchtime on Wednesday the 29th August and taken down on 4th September at 6pm. MORE NEWS COMING SOON

'Push The Boat Out' film by Corey Samuel

This morning the Push The Boat Out exhibition at the Art Academy was taken down. So now is as good a time as any to watch a mini film by Corey Samuel which shows the exhibition being put up. You can click: here to see Corey's film.

The exhibition featured work by; Gordon Beswick, Corin Johnson, James F. Johnston, Nicola Hicks, Cedar Lewisohn, Morrissey & Hancock, Kate Murdoch, and Harry Pye. The film begins with James Johnston in his studio (3 flights above the Art Academy gallery space.) Paintings by James that featured in the show included; 'Landscape with Orange Cabin', 'Blinfold' and 'Kneeling Man Becoming a Dog'and 'Sleepwalker'.

Cedar Lewisohn's London Knife Crime drawings are all untitled. Morrissey & Hancock's sculpture is called 'Chromatic'.

Corin Johnson's sculptures include; 'Magpie', 'Dancer' 'Colin with Rabbit', and 'Kate with Sledgehammer'. Kate Murdoch's contribution included; 'A Nice Little Spread', 'Nana's Curlers' and 'Nora was deflowered by a man who worked in the soda water factory'. Team Beswick & Pye collaborated on 'A Starry, Starry Night with Chris Packham in Southampton'. Gordon Beswick's paintings are titled; 'Invisible City 1' and 'Invisible City 2' Harry Pye exhibited a Van Gogh triptych and a cluster of paintings that included 'The Birds', and 'Play School with Derek Griffiths' (a.k.a 'Black History Month').

(Image Below is:) Nicola Hicks's sculpture is called, 'C is for Cactus'.

The show was curated by Johnston and Pye. James and Harry would like to thank all the artists who took part in the exhibition, PLUS: Amelie Lindsay for her help and advice, Sacha Craddock for coming to give an excellent talk about the work in the show, Andrew Petrie for designing the flier, Iain White for his essential help with the opening party, Richard Barr for documenting the private view with all his brilliant photos, Pete Sinclair for his generosity and support, Guy Haddon-Grant and Bill, Dan and Edie Flowers for installing 'C is for Cactus'. Thanks also to Zuzanna and everybody at The Art Academy, Matthew Couper at Southwark Arts, Isabel and everyone at Flowers, and Charlie the Dog for keeping our spirits up.

Thanks to an for listing our event: here. Thanks also to everyone who came and said nice things and/or bought something from our gift shop. And thanks to both John Flemming's So It Goes blog, Fabienne Jenny Jacquet's Tainted Glory blog for helping to spread the word. Read Fabienne's interview with James and Harry: here Read John's interview with James and Harry: here "Cheers everyone!"