Category: Jackson’s Art Prize

Andrew Torr won Jackson’s Art Prize 2024 with his oil painting Estate. Now a Guest Judge for 2025, he discusses transforming something unlovely into something beautiful, not being afraid of rejection, and how winning Jackson’s Art Prize is like winning the FA Cup.     Interview with Andrew Torr Josephine: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your artistic practice? Andrew: My name is Andrew Torr, I’m a painter and I won Jackson’s Art Prize 2024. My winning painting is a good indication of what it is that I’m interested in. I’m a figurative painter and I’m currently obsessed with housing estates, ones that you see dotted around the UK at the moment. They’re an interesting subject matter because they are quite often particularly unlovely and I’m trying to make something beautiful out of those things, which is a great challenge in a way. The process and the approach that I now have has come about after long periods of trialing and experimenting with how to present that subject matter on canvas. What I’m looking for is that sweet spot between the thing represented and the kind of music that the paint makes on the canvas, the …

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Artist Joshua Donkor is a Guest Judge for Jackson’s Art Prize 2025. His work uses portraiture as a tool to subvert monolithic portrayals of Black identity. In this interview, he discusses his process of creating layered portraits to capture intimate personal narratives, the exhibitions that have inspired him this past year, and why he believes it’s crucial for younger artists to get their work seen.     Interview with Joshua Donkor Josephine: Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your artistic practice? Joshua: My name is Joshua Donkor, I’m predominantly an oil painter. The work I create is all about stories of immigration and diaspora. I’m interested in that space that exists between cultures, between places, and how people navigate those experiences through different generations. I try to find ways of exploring and expressing that and capturing intimate personal narratives through the paintings I create. While it’s predominantly oil paint, I also use mixed media methods. I use image transfers to incorporate artifacts, photos, and memories that the people I work with cherish very deeply, and that they feel have informed them and informed their lives in different ways. So I find ways to incorporate that to create …

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