Mike Pratt & Cecilia Stenbom: New Lights, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate, UK

Workplace Gallery is pleased to annouce that Mike Pratt and Cecilia Stenbom have been shortlisted for the first New Lights Arts Award. The Valeria Sykes Prize exhibition will be held at The Mercer Art Gallery Swan Road Harrogate HG1 2SA Visit http://www.newlights.org.uk/prize for more details. Paintings by 24 artists have been shortlisted from 232 entries for the £10,000 New Lights award by a panel of independent judges. The judges are Kate Brindley, Director of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) and a National Advisor for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Funding Programme; Paul Hobson, Director of the Contemporary Arts Society, and the artist William Tillyer. The winner will be announced on 22 September. The prize comprises a mixture of money (£10,000), guidance and mentoring. The 2011 prize is named the Valeria Sykes Prize, after the main sponsor, was open to artists aged 23-35 who either live or gained an arts degree in the North of England. images: left: Mike Pratt Cobra, 2011 Oil and enamel on canvas, Heineken cans 280 x 220 cm Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK right: Cecilia Stenbom You've Had Me Again, 2010 Acrylic Paint on Perspex 180 x 220 cm Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK