Clifford Chance

Anna Wilkinson awards Clifford Chance Printmaking Purchase Prize to Elizabeth Gossling

Anna Wilkinson, Director of Northern Print and founding Director of the International Print Biennale, was invited to select the recipient of the Purchase Prize at Clifford Chance's annual Postgraduate Printmaking survey exhibition. She said ‘The exhibition is testimony to the vitality, relevance and diversity of contemporary printmaking and I’d like to congratulate all the artists on their achievements.’

Anna Wilkinson awarded the Purchase Prize to Elizabeth Gossling, noting that her presentation in the exhibition, 'worked together as a solid representation of ideas that readily communicated themselves to the viewer. It was the artist's engagement with the processes of printmaking, investigating how images emerged from printmaking processes, that struck me. Printmaking was integral to the ideas.'

Elizabeth Gossling completed her Postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art in 2012. Her work is built on a fascination with modern media, recent technological histories and the replicated image. Through an examination of their construction, she searches for the validity of images, working to reveal their function and relevancy in our present culture by considering how an image is made. In 2012, Elizabeth was awarded both the Red Mansion Prize for research in China and the London Print Studio Award.

Through the Clifford Chance Purchase Prize, the artist's work will be acquired for the Clifford Chance art collection and funds provided for continued research in a print studio.

Esther Cavett, a Partner on the Clifford Chance Art committee, said ‘We greatly appreciate the display of art in our offices and, each year, we value the opportunity to showcase these new talents from London’s art schools. Through our support of a new generation of printmakers, we hope the Purchase Prize encourages artists to continue to explore and experiment with the medium.’