National Museum Cardiff is shortlisted for the Annual Award for Museums 2011

12th September 2011

The Contemporary Art Society announces the shortlist for the Annual Award for Museums 2011. The winning museum will receive £60,000 to commission an artist to make a new work for their public collection, generously supported by the Sfumato Foundation.

The Shortlist for 2011:

• National Museum Wales (Cardiff) with Artes Mundi - Proposal with artist Andrea Büttner

• Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery - Proposal with artist Christina Mackie

• Shipley Art Gallery - Proposal with artist Matthew Darbyshire

• Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool - Proposal with artist Wael Shawky

• University of Warwick Art Collection - Proposal with artist Katie Paterson

For the third year of the Contemporary Art Society’s Annual Award - commission to collect, we are delighted to announce that the proposals listed above have been shortlisted.

2011 Selectors:- Adam Chodzko (Artist), Maurice Davies (Head of Policy, Museums Association), Rosy Greenlees (Director, Crafts Council), Michael Stanley (Director, Modern Art Oxford)

The winner will be announced on 14 November 2011. Previous winners include the Hepworth Wakefield and Wolverhampton Art Gallery for their proposal with Luke Fowler and Museums Sheffield, the Graves Art Gallery with Katerina Seda.

This Award is the largest donation made specifically to a museum to enable them to work closely with their selected artist to directly commission a new work for a public collection.

This is another initiative that meets the Contemporary Art Society’s mission to develop public collections of contemporary art across the UK. The charity has gifted over 8,000 works over a period of 100 years, supporting artists when they were young and little known and ensured that some of the most important works are represented in collections across the UK.

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