Clifford Chance

Tom Hammick awards Clifford Chance Printmaking Purchase Prize to Katja Angeli

The artist Tom Hammick, was invited to select the winner of the Purchase Prize at Clifford Chance's annual Postgraduate Printmaking 2015 exhibition – an exhibition that surveys London's art college graduates who use printmaking mediums. Tom awarded the prize to Katja Angeli from the Royal College of Art.

He praised her work as a 'really refreshing use of combined print language and chine-collé, and beautiful, subtle collage'. He said it was a 'fantastically good exhibition' and 'enjoyed the wide range' of printmaking techniques on show, noting that the work celebrated 'this extraordinarily broad and intoxicating language.'

Katja Angeli completed her postgraduate studies at Royal College of Art in 2015. She describes her work as projecting 'a surreal, carnivalesque world of shifting shapes, forms and scenes.' Traditional techniques and materials are used alongside digital applications and processes. The same motifs or forms are used in many different compositions, exploring what metamorphoses they can be put through. She describes the Prize as rewarding 'an experimental body of work of mine that brings together the digital and the physical, referencing a narrative about materiality that is key to my practice. The Prize serves as an important acknowledgement of this.'

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, to the combined value of £2000.

Nicola Stanhope, chair of 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.’