Professor wins top UK art award
9 November 2012
Artist chosen to develop new work
A PROFESSOR from MMU has been chosen for a prestigious £50,000 award.
Professor Pavel Buchler is one of eight artists to be given the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award, which gives them £50,000 each over three years to develop creative ideas and grow both personally and professionally.
The Award is the most generous of its kind in the UK, and since 1994 has given almost £4 million to artists who the panel judge to be at a timely moment in their career.
Professor Buchler said: “I felt honoured enough when I heard that I had been nominated for a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award and I can still hardly believe that I have been offered this prestigious gift.”
Not about winning prizes
“Art is not about winning prizes but the thought that what I have done so far has achieved the critical endorsement of people whom I respect gives me a great incentive to carry on and their faith in what I can still do is a challenge,” he continued.
“The generosity of the Award will help me to devote time to work without the risks of slipping into production and to develop speculative ideas opportunities without compromise. What makes the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards special is that they have enabled many artists to do just that.”
Professor Buchler was awarded the Northern Art Prize in 2009, and has recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Denver, the Contemporary Art Museum, in St Louis, The Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, the Museion Bolzano and the Centre d’Art Comtemporain, in Geneve. He is currently working on solo projects for Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery, Extra City in Antwerp and Berlin’s Schinkel Pavilion.
