{"id":25486,"date":"2023-10-29T16:51:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T16:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=25486"},"modified":"2025-05-25T17:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T17:11:27","slug":"sophie-lloyd-inaugural-winner-of-the-anthony-caro-sculpture-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/sophie-lloyd-inaugural-winner-of-the-anthony-caro-sculpture-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Lloyd: Inaugural winner of the Anthony Caro Sculpture Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Congratulations to Sophie Lloyd who has won the Anthony Caro Sculpture Prize 2023.
The following extract taken from City and Guilds of London Art School’s announcement:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winning work by Sophie Lloyd winner of the Anthony Caro Sculpture Award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We are delighted to share that BA (Hons) Fine Art<\/a> Graduate Sophie Lloyd<\/a> has been chosen as the first recipient of the Anthony Caro Sculpture Prize. The award was gifted to the Art School earlier this year<\/a> as one of two initiatives to support Fine Art students with a practice focused on sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sophie\u2019s art practice employs sugar, fondant icing and lead to create stained-glass characters. Her work is an exploration of consumerism, gluttony and entertainment. \u2018The Live Show\u2019, displayed at the Degree Show from 24-30 June, brings together 22 individual, fairground-like caricatures, displayed along with silicone javelins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Details from Sophie Lloyds ‘The Live Show’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Paul Moorhouse, Chief Executive of the Anthony Caro Centre 2020-2023, commended Sophie and her fellow students:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were impressed by the standard of the students\u2019 work. The school\u2019s ethos of involvement with materials \u2013 both as a starting point and as essential to the creative process \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among so much talent, Sophie\u2019s 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\u2019s appearance so effectively evokes the passage of time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

View Sophie Lloyd’s gallery page on New Blood Art and available work<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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