The Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Wimbledon College of Art, have released the shortlist of 43 artists for The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006, which includes a first prize of £6,000 and a second prize of £3,000, and two student awards of £1,000 each.

The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the country’s leading award in drawing, and is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the UK. Established in 1996 as the annual Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition and renamed The Jerwood Drawing Prize when the Jerwood Charitable Foundation became the principal sponsor in 2001, this year marks the tenth annual exhibition of the annual open drawing show. In celebration of this, a separate anniversary exhibition, Drawing Breath, will be held at the gallery at wimbledon college of art, 8th September -22nd October 2006.

A shortlist of 43 artists have been selected for the exhibition by Jason Brooks, Artist; Yvonne Crossley, Director of The Drawing Gallery, London; and Paul Thomas, Artist and Co-founder of The Jerwood Drawing Prize.  The shortlist includes highly regarded, established artists as well as relative newcomers and students fresh from art school.

The shortlisted artists will show their nominated drawings in an exhibition at the Jerwood Space, London SE1 from 20th September to 22nd October 2006. The awards will be announced by Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, Director of Visual Arts, Arts Council England at 7pm on Tuesday 19th September 2006. The exhibition will then tour in the UK, to galleries in Cheltenham, Birmingham, Bury St Edmunds, Durham and Cardiff.

The 43 Artists shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006 are:  

Zoë Anderson, Axel Antas, Charles Avery, Sharon Beavan, Bermingham &  Robinson, Cath Campbell, Robert Clarke, Jane Dixon, Roy Eastland, Susan Eaton, Maryclare Foá, Josephine Gallagher, Mark Harris, Vincent Hawkins, Yao-Chih Hom, James Hobbs, Charlotte Hodes, Diane Howse, Amy Ison, Neil Kelly, Roger Kelly, Annie Kevans, Chie Konishi, David Leapman, Ralph Macartney, James Martelli, Mick Maslen,  James McLellan, Ian McNamara, Zoë Mendelson, Max Naylor, Simon Parish, John Patterson, Lisa Peachey, Kerry Phippen, Julia Polonski, Benjamin Senior, Michael Shaw, Helen Sykes, Toby Wiggins, David Willcock, James Wright, Mathew Draper.

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Private View Tuesday 5 September, 18.30 - 20.30.

Finish born Axel Antas’ multi-disciplinary practice encompasses photography, drawing and video. Recent work develops the artists' interest in displacement and the abstraction of the self as a physical entity.

Large scale drawings feature woods filled with towers of empty cardboard boxes or trees with numerous bird boxes in the branches. In such drawings though a human, or living, presence is suggested the subject is denied and instead becomes an empty sign onto which the viewer can project their own experiences, thoughts and uncertainties.

Antas has been selected to represent Scandinavia at this years Statements Section of the Paris Photo Fair, selected by Andrea Holzerr.

Antas has been selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006.

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Sarah Morris, Robert Towne [Los Angeles], 2006. Architectural rendering of Sarah Morris' Robert Towne at Lever House, 2006. Courtesy the artist.

The Public Art Fund will present Sarah Morris Robert Towne at the Lever House starting on September 12 and running through December 3. Since the mid-1990s, Sarah Morris has been internationally renowned for her panoramic portraits of American metropolises, which take the form of both paintings and films. In the paintings, she uses colors and geometries that she associates with a city's unique vocabulary and palette, architecture and, most importantly, its character and energy. Robert Towne, a temporary installation at Lever House commissioned by the Public Art Fund, is Morris's expanded variation on an abstract canvas from her recent "Los Angeles" series (2005-06). Painted directly on the ground-level ceiling by a crew of sign painters, Robert Towne covers the entire 19,744-square-foot cross section of the building, encompassing both its indoor lobby and outdoor courtyard.

Gary Hill has a  new exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, Gary Hill continues his complex inquiry into the nature of being while also examining the notion of value—that of both art and money—its significance, and its ambiguity, through works that question our systems of thought and our symbolic construction of the world. The exhibition Gary Hill is organized with support from the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, under the aegis of the Fondation de France, and with the sponsorship of Cartier "so how much is that bag worth?".

The National Portrait Gallery presents A Picture of Health:

Photographs By Julia Fullerton-Batten, on view through September 10, 2006. The health sector is the subject of a highly topical display of sixteen newly commissioned large format colour photographs. A Picture of Health profiles some of the outstanding men and women who have shaped healthcare at the beginning of the 21st century. Julia Fullerton-Batten's intriguing portraits include key figures working for the National Health Service as leaders, clinicians, and Primary Carers. Campaigners and Government policy advisors are also represented.

All the subjects have made a difference to our lives. Fullerton-Batten's cinematic approach captures her sitters in settings that provide an insight into their working environment. Sir Iain Chalmers, the founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, is photographed in his office, balancing on a footstall and surrounded by more than two hundred photographs of the colleagues who collaborated on this international project on the effects of healthcare. Marjorie Wallace, Founder and Chief Executive of SANE, is depicted as a romantic crusader wearing blue silk and sitting at a grand piano at the charity's research centre in Oxford. Other portraits on display include Claire Rayner in a recording studio, Nick Partridge at the London Lighthouse, and Lord Winston who is photographed in his London home.

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Tracey Emin Bed

The British Council has announced that Tracey Emin has been selected to represent Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007. The artist will produce new work especially for the British Pavilion.
The Venice Biennale will provide an opportunity to see new work by Emin following her recent highly acclaimed exhibition 'When I think about sex' (White Cube, London, 2005).

You are invited to the closing event of Graham Hudson's Residency at The Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design on Friday 1 September. From 19.00 there will be a no-reserve auction of the Parade Ground Sculpture Collection consisting of some 30 lots, most of which should fit in the back of a small van. There is also the opportunity to view and participate in Sculpture Wars, the knock-out gameshow featuring artists and off-cuts of wood. RSVP is essential; please confirm that you wish to attend by emailling RSVP@arts.ac.uk. The entrance to The Parade Ground is on Atterbury Street, opposite Tate Britain. The nearest underground is Pimlico.