Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art wins the inaugural Jackson Tang Ceramics Award
(Artdaily.org)

The Contemporary Art Society has launched a new fund focussed on ceramics – The Jackson Tang Ceramic Award. Designed to support a major acquisition of ceramic work for a Contemporary Art Society Museum Member, the award is open to artists whose primary material is ceramic as well as those who only employ the process and material occasionally. Applications were invited from both Fine Art and Omega Fund for Craft curators. Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) has won the first award with an ambitious proposal to acquire three large-scale pieces from Chiara Camoni’s most recent series Sisters (2017). This will be the first acquisition of Camoni’s work by a UK museum. Sister 1, Sister 3, and Sister 4 are glazed clay forms each supporting a number of multi-coloured candles. Over time the coloured wax builds up on and around each