The ACE Awards are designed to celebrate the successes and diversity of architectural and artistic projects in religious buildings throughout Britain. ACE gives four biennial Awards of £3,000 each.
2009 Awards
The 2009 ACE Awards were announced 18 November 2009 at the Bishopsgate Institute in the City of London.
Winners and short-lists are as follows:
The ACE Award for Art in a Religious Context (Given with kind support from the Michael Marks Charitable Trust)
Winner: Tracey Emin For You, Liverpool Cathedral
Brian Catling A Processional Cross, Dorchester Abbey
Shirazeh Houshiary East Window, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Leonard McComb St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds, Westminster Cathedral, London
Rona Smith Northern Elevation & Alison Wilding Garden Fountain, Drinking Fountain and Baptismal Font, Lumen Centre, United Reform Church, London
The ACE / Mercers’ International Book Award – for a book which makes an outstanding contribution to the dialogue between religious faith and the visual arts (Given with kind support from the Mercers’ Company)
Winner: Mia M Mochizuki The Netherlandish Image after Iconoclasm, 1566-1672: Material Religion in the Dutch Golden Age (Ashgate, 2008)
Jerrilynn D Dodds, Maria Rosa Menocal & Abigail Krasner Balballe The Arts of Intimacy: Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture (Yale University Press, 2008)
Aaron Rosen Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston and Kitaj (Legenda, 2009)
Jeffrey Spier and others Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art (Yale University Press, 2007)
The ACE / RIBA Award for Religious Architecture (Given in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects)
Winner: Hudson Architects, The Salvation Army Chelmsford Corps Building, Chelmsford, Essex
Anthony Rossi, CBE, Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation, Little Walsingham, Norfolk
Theis & Khan, Lumen Centre, United Reform Church, London
Eric Parry Architects, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
For further information, contact ACE at T & F (0)20 7374 0600 or awards@acetrust.org
ACE Awards, All Hallows on the Wall, 83 London Wall, London EC2M 5ND, UK.
2009 Judging panels
Art – temporary and permanent commissions (£3,000 each)
Gill Hedley (Chair) – independent curator and museum consultant, former Director of the Contemporary Art Society
Michael Bracewell – writer and critic
Nicholas Bury – Dean of Gloucester
Ann Elliott – independent curator and art consultant
Ben Quash – Professor of Christianity & the Arts, King’s College London
Architecture
Elain Harwood (chair) – Senior architectural investigator for English Heritage & author of the Pevsner City Guide to Nottingham
Allan Doig – Fellow, Chaplain and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Joe Kerr – Head of Department of Critical & Historical Studies, Royal College of Art
Shahed Saleem – Makespace Architects
Gill Smith – Consultant partner at Fielden Clegg Bradley Architects, RIBA Stirling Prize winners 2008
Book
Tim Marlow – Director of Exhibitions, White Cube
Eamon Duffy – Professor of History of Christianity, University of Cambridge
Rupert Shortt – Religion editor for the Times Literary Supplement
Frances Spalding – Professor of Art History, University of Newcastle
Marina Warner – Professor of Literature, Film and Theatre, University of Essex
Graham Howes (convenor)
Awards events
Events last year:
Peter Doll (Team Vicar of Abingdon) and Peter Newby (Priest of St Mary Moorfields, London): Building a temple for the third millennium; new directions in church architecture. 25 Oct, 2.30pm at St Bede's Basingstoke, RG24 9DX.
Jules Lubbock on 'Stories of Justice in 14th-Century Art'. 20 Oct, 6pm at the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand, London WC2.
Stephen Cox in conversation with Robert Willis (Dean of Canterbury), Stephen Bann (Professor of Art History at the University of Bristol) and Christopher Irvine (Canon Librarian at Canterbury Cathedral). 12 Sep, 7.30pm at the ISC, Canterbury Cathedral.
Rose Finn-Kelcey in conversation with Paul Bayley. Plus artists Ellard and Johnstone present a film work. 25 Sep, 6.30pm at St Paul's Bow Common, London E3.
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International Awards
For projects in the US: The Annual Religious Art and Architecture Design Awards program is co-sponsored by Faith & Form Magazine and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture (IFRAA), a knowledge community of the American Institute of Architects. The Awards program was founded in 1978 with the goal of honoring the best in architecture, liturgical design, and art for religious spaces. The program offers four primary categories for awards: Religious Architecture, Liturgical/Interior Design, Sacred Landscapes, and Religious Arts. Visit www.faithandform.com.
In Australia the Blake Prize explores the 'Religious and Spiritual in Art' on an annual basis. Go to www.blakeprize.com.au.