{"id":24471,"date":"2013-10-16T21:50:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2013\/10\/2014-a-big-year-for-standard-bank-young-artist-awards\/"},"modified":"2013-10-16T21:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:50:43","slug":"2014-a-big-year-for-standard-bank-young-artist-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/2014-a-big-year-for-standard-bank-young-artist-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 a big year for Standard Bank Young Artist Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The National Arts Festival last night named an unprecedented eight young South Africans winners of the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award, bringing to 125 the total number who have been honoured since Standard Bank began sponsoring the Awards three decades ago.<\/p>\n

The Award is made annually to young South African artists who are either on the threshold of national acclaim, or whose artistic excellence has enabled them to make international breakthroughs. \u201cCelebrating excellence, innovation and a refined technical skill and artistry rests at the heart of the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards. Each of this year\u2019s winners represent the vibrancy and sophistication with which South Africa\u2019s artistic and cultural legacy continues to be enriched\u201d said Festival Artistic Director, Ismail Mahomed.<\/p>\n

The Awards include, for the first time since inception, a prize shared by siblings in a single category, with photographers Hasan and Husain Essop being named joint Visual Art winners. The brothers have been collaborating since their graduation from the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town<\/a>, and will stage a new joint exhibition in Grahamstown next year. \u201cIt is also only the sixth time since the start of the awards that a prize has been given in the \u2018Film\u2019 category, and we are delighted that we can include that on our roster of winners together with our newest award category for \u2018Performance Art\u2019, which was instituted last year,\u201d Mahomed said. \u201cQuite often we have had to present a smaller, refined list of winners \u2013 this time we wanted a full slate, covering all the key genr es celebrated by the National Arts Festival in anticipation of our double anniversary celebrations in 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next year, apart from being the 30th year Standard Bank have sponsored the Award, the Festival will celebrate its 40th anniversary.<\/p>\n

The winners of the 2014 Standard Bank Young Artist Awards are:<\/strong><\/p>\n