ACE Awards 2007/8
The winners of the 2007/8 ACE Awards for Religious Art and Architecture were announced on 23 October at a reception at the Church of All Hallows on the Wall, in the City of London. Sir John Tusa presented the Awards and chaired the evening's proceedings.
ART AWARD
The panel for the ACE Award for Art in a Religious Context were unanimous in their decision to award the prize to two artists, Stephen Cox for St Anselm's Altar at Canterbury Cathedral and Rose Finn-Kelcey for Angel at St Paul's Bow Common.
The Award's criteria this year invited entries for temporary installations in religious spaces as well as permanent commissions. Given the diversity of projects entered the panel felt it was appropriate to commend two works which exemplify the permanent and the temporary. £3,000 was split between Mr Cox and Ms Finn-Kelcey whilst Canterbury Cathedral and St Paul’s Bow Common were also awarded £500 each.
Also short-listed were:
- Kathleen Herbert, Stable, Gloucester Cathedral
- Susanna Heron, Still Point, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool
- John Newling, Chatham Vines, St John's Church, Chatham, Kent
- Rona Smith, Power of Two, St Mark's Church, Leeds
The ACE / Mercers’ International Book Award
The ACE / Mercers’ International Book Award (£3,000) was awarded to Jules Lubbock for his book on Storytelling in Christian Art; From Giotto to Donatello, published by Yale University Press. This was praised for its clarity of prose as well as the depth and detail of research and illustration.
Also short-listed:
- Eamonn Ó'Carragáin, Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood
The ACE/RIBA Award for Religious Architecture
The ACE / RIBA Award for Religious Architecture (£2,000) was awarded to JBKS Architects with Robert Maguire for a new Roman Catholic Church in Basingstoke, dedicated to St Bede. Fr Vincent Harvey was also presented with a cheque for £1,000 for the Parish. The church which serves a large Catholic community in Basingstoke encompasses a courtyard, with a cloister-type configuration of auxillary buildings. The church itself is distinctive in its style, a seven-storey high ‘funnel’ brings daylight into the broad and spacious church, and detailing is quietly modern.
Also short-listed were:
- Chris Churchman Landscape Architects, Wilbury Hills Cemetery, Letchworth Garden City
- Thomas Ford and Partners, All Saints Church, West Dulwich, London
- David Grindley Architects, Headington Baptist Church, Oxford
- Matthew Lloyd Architects, St Paul's Church, Old Ford, Bow, London
- SPE Architects, Multi-Faith Centre, University of Derby
ACE Awards 2005/6
The ACE/RIBA Award for Religious Architecture
WINNER: Falconer Chester Architects (with Landscape Projects): Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King Liverpool 2003. Photo by Shaw+Shaw
The ACE Award for a Commissioned Artwork in Ecclesiastical Space
WINNER: Alison Watt
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2004 Old St Paul's Edinburgh. Photo by Hyjlda Kosaniuk Innes
The ACE International Book Award
The award was given jointly to: Paul Binski Becket's Crown; Art and imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300 Yale University Press 2005
Joseph Leo Koerner The Reformation of the Image The University of Chicago Press & Reaktion 2004
ALSO SHORTLISTED:
Michelle P Brown The Lindisfarne Gospels; Society, Spirituality and the Scribe British Library Publications & Toronto University Press 2003
The Award winners in 2003 were:
The ACE Award for a Commissioned Artwork in Ecclesiastical Space
Winner: Jim Partridge
The George Bell Altar, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
The ACE/RIBA Award for Religious Architecture
Winner: Tony Fretton Architects
Faith House, Holton Lee, Poole
The ACE/REEP Award
Winner: Mark Hoare and Deansfield Primary School Faith Garden
