01/07/2025
Congratulations to the winners of Eye Line 2025! Our annual, international drawing competition ⬇️
✍️ Image 1-2: Max Cooper-Clark, Royal College of Art, London - First place, Student. Charcoal, pansy dyes, paint, acetone transfer, archival photography and ketal thread on fabric.
✍️ Image 3-4: Nic Clear, Professor, School of Arts & Humanities, Huddersfield University and Hyun Jun Park, Course director Architecture, Leeds Beckett University - First place, Practitioner. Composite 3D laser scan.
Cooper-Clark wins Eye Line with his stirring and emotive study of the village of Nenthead in the Pennines, whose lead mining activities over the last two hundred years has had long and lasting effects on the on the landscape.
It says a lot about the complexity of Clear and Park’s submission that, just by looking at them, judges were sensitised to thinking that their images were, at some point in their evolution, stills from a video; so filmic do they appear in their nature. But throughout the judging process, the vaguely haunting, digitally created images lingered on in the minds of the judges to see them ultimately materialise in first place.
➡️ View these winning entries in more detail at: RIBAJ.com/eyeline
