Votes have been counted for the Aesthetica Art Prize People鈥檚 Choice Award, and we are delighted to announce that Sybille Neumeyer is the winner. Visitors voted for their favourite artwork in the group show between 4 April and 22 June, which presented the finalists from the Aesthetica Art Prize along with a further 92 artworks from the longlist displayed on monitors within the gallery.
Artists who exhibited and were nominees for the People鈥檚 Choice Award were: Sybille Neumeyer, Harriet Lewars, Amedeo Abello & Federico Morando, Deb Covell, Elke Finkenauer, In茅s Molina Navea, Ingrid Hu and Julia Wei脽enberg.
Winning artist Sybille Neumeyer鈥檚 work Song for the Last Queen refers to the endangerment of bees, a species with a vital role in maintaining our ecosystem. Working with beekeepers in the USA, Japan and Germany, Neumeyer researched the current problem of dying bee colonies. She collected honeycomb, wax and dead bees from a collapsed beehive 鈥 examining each both as an indicator of fact and as a significant and extraordinary material.
Neumeyer says: 鈥淐reating a muted preparation of a perished bee colony in honey, I ask questions about scientific practices, future perspectives and our responsibility to our environment. I am a travelling artist and designer, whose work investigates the relation between humans and nature as I address phenomena found in science, culture and the natural world. During my travels, I aim to understand global structures as well local peculiarities. Small details attract me and become a starting point for experiments and observations.鈥
Neumeyer’s winning piece and the top 100 artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize are published along with artists’ statements and industry-written articles in the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology. Pick up a copy here: .
To see more of Sybille Neumeyer鈥檚 work visit .
The Aesthetica Art Prize is open for entries. Prizes include up to 拢5,000, group exhibition, publication in an anthology of top 100 emerging artists and editorial coverage in 人妻少妇专区. Entries close 31 August 2014. For more information and to submit visit .
The Prize Draw Winner has been directly on 1 July. The prizes include a meal for two at , cinema tickets for and champagne cocktails at .
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1. Sybille Neumeyer with her piece Song for the Last Queen. Courtesy of .
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