2024 REMET Art Prize

Congratulations to Youngeon Shin and Jas Sproule who were announced as joint winners of the REMET prize on 11 June 2024.  Their work will be on display in the top floor apartment until the end of July.  REMET offers Undergraduate Fine Art students at Kingston University an annual competition to create a small bronze object using their specialist ceramic shell casting process. REMET are interested in the innovative ways that Fine Art students can work with their process. Students were invited to submit an initial proposal for an object, their only limitations being scale. The selected students fabricated and cast their objects in the Kingston School of Art workshop supported by Guillermo (Will) Rodriguez Lopez. This year’s finalists were:

George Stokes, Self Discovery, bronze
Zoe Coleman, Iliac, bronze and PLA (polylactic acid) filament
Youngeon Shin, The Urgency of Pooping, bronze. REMET WINNER
Oliver Page, £9.65, bronze
Jas Sproule, Ya Can’t Put Your Dick in That, bronze. REMET WINNER
Tania Pourashraf, The Pazyryk Carpet, bronze
Oliver Kettles, The Prized Piece, bronze

The finalists were selected by Mark Harris and Andrea Stokes and the winners selected by Bob Brown, Jerry Hughes and Ahlam Ahmadi.  With special thanks to; Bob Brown and Matt Day at REMET; Jerry Hughes at AB Fine Art Foundry and Guillermo Rodriguez Lopez, Senior Technician, 3D Workshops, Kingston School of Art.