Earlier this year, the Anthony Caro Centre inaugurated a new gift to City and Guilds of London Art School, which will support students.

 

• The Anthony Caro Sculpture Prize will be awarded this summer to a graduating third year BA Fine Art student, with a degree show presentation focussed on sculpture.

• The Anthony Caro Sculpture Bursary will be allocated towards tuition fees for a MA Fine student with a practice focussed on sculpture, beginning in academic year 2023/24.

 

We are delighted to announce that Sophie Lloyd is the winner of the 2023 Anthony Caro Centre Sculpture Prize for a graduating BA Fine Art Student.

 

When Patrick Cunningham and I visited the school, we were impressed by the standard of the students’ work.  The school’s ethos of involvement with materials – both as a starting point and as essential to the creative process – was, we felt, entirely sympathetic to the work of Anthony Caro, whose achievements as a sculptor so deepened a wider understanding of what art is, and, more importantly, can be.  That legacy, we believe, is in safe hands at City and Guilds of London Art School.

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Among so much talent, Sophie’s work stood out because of her entirely distinctive engagement with materials.  Her use of coloured fondant sugar and metal is surprising, witty and expressive: highly original, yet steeped in traditional practice.  We particularly liked her combination of caricature, fairground imagery and references to leaded glass.  We also admired her ability to infuse apparently light-hearted imagery with more profound implications, not least the way that change in her work’s appearance so effectively evokes the passage of time.

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I wish Sophie much success in her future career and am delighted that she is the first recipient of the Anthony Caro Sculpture Prize.

 

Paul Moorhouse

Chief Executive

Anthony Caro Centre