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Dandara has launched its second artist scholarship in association with the Jersey Arts Trust, offering a Jersey artist the opportunity to shadow one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists.

The scholarship builds upon Dandara’s involvement in the Planning and Environment Department’s Percentage for Art initiative which has seen the company commission more than ten works from contemporary British artists to enhance its Jersey developments.

In the scholarship’s second year, a Jersey artist will be chosen to shadow Christopher Le Brun, the distinguished painter and sculptor whose work ‘The Wing’ was commissioned for the Castle Quay development. View Christopher’s biography.

Dandara’s Managing Director Martin Clancy commented: “We are delighted to be launching the second year of the scholarship, which further underpins our commitment to both the Percentage for Art programme and to giving opportunity to locally based talent to work with internationally recognised sculptors, from whom they can benefit greatly. Last year the competition attracted a myriad of talent and we are very hopeful of the same response this time round”.

Grandson of a Jerseyman, Christopher Le Brun was born in Portsmouth in 1951 and studied at the Slade and Chelsea art schools. He is a former trustee of the Tate, National Gallery and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, and currently a trustee of the Prince’s Drawing School. His work is in major collections throughout the world.

The opportunity to spend a week with one of the best known contemporary painters will result in a wide range of experience: a typical week involves preparation of studio materials, painting, working visits to the Royal Academy and private views. “Depending on commitments at the time”, said Mr Le Brun, “it could also include visits to the fine art printers to supervise new lithographs and working with the bronze foundry on sculpture”.

Applicants for the award are judged on the basis of a portfolio of work submitted on disc to a judging panel which is looking for the artist who best demonstrates that his, or her, work would benefit from the study period. The judging panel comprises Philip Hewat-Jaboor, art adviser to the Planning Department, Mrs Susie Pinel and Rod McLoughlin, cultural development officer.

As part of the scholarship, Dandara will pay the cost of travel from Jersey to the UK plus subsistence and local travel for the week.

The first scholarship was awarded to Highlands student Christine Hamilton who spent a week with sculptor Stephen Cox in Ludlow in June this year.

Thanking Dandara for what she described as an ‘inspirational’ experience, Christine said that she had returned from the scholarship with many new skills under her belt.

“I had the opportunity to see his drawings and watch one of them being transformed into a 3D stone sculpture that he was preparing for an exhibition. I watched him work and was able to make my own modest sculpture whilst being guided in technique and the use of machinery”, she said.

Christine Hamilton at work in Stephen Cox's studio

Christopher Le Brun Biography

Christopher Mark Le Brun was born in Portsmouth in 1951.
He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (DFA) in London from 1970-74 and at Chelsea School of Art (MA) from 1974-75.
Le Brun has exhibited in many significant surveys of international art, including Nuova Immagine, Milan 1981, Zeitgeist Berlin 1982, Avant-garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles 1987 and Contemporary Voices, Museum of Modern Art New York 2005.
From 1987-88 he received the D.A.A.D. award from the German government, living and working in Berlin for a year.
He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1996 and in 2000 became the Academy's first Professor of Drawing.
Le Brun is a former trustee of the Tate, the National Gallery, and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. He is currently a trustee of the Prince's Drawing School.
He is married to the painter Charlotte Verity. They have three children. He lives and works in London and Suffolk.

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