The Jane Phillips Award is a memorial to Jane Phillips (1957-2011) Mission Gallery’s first Director.

Launched at Mission Gallery in 2011, the award is intended as a legacy to Jane’s passion for mentoring and nurturing talent, consistently supporting emerging and early career artists across the Visual and Applied Arts in Wales and beyond.

Mission Gallery has developed a reputation for dynamic and distinctive programming, to present excellence across the visual arts, applied arts and craft, from across Wales and beyond.

For this Graduate Showcase, work is selected from various UK degree shows and New Designers. Focusing on artists, makers and designers who have showcased excellence within their specialised field; highlighting those that are pushing the boundaries of traditional concepts and ideas, blurring the lines between disciplines and celebrating art and craft in all its forms.

• The selected artists are: 
• Toni de Jesus, Cardiff School of Art & Design
• Silje Syvertsen, Swansea College of Art UWTSD
• Amanda Freeman, Carmarthen School of Art & Design
• Carys Edwards, Swansea School of Art UWTSD
• Emily James, Swansea School of Art UWTSD
• Frances Lukins, Cardiff School of Art & Design
• Jenny Kate, Cardiff School of Art & Design
• Rebecca Oldfield, Cardiff School of Art & Design
• Zoe Mara May, Edinburgh School of Art
• Ailsa Morrant, Glasgow School of Art

To download the Jane Phillips Award Graduate Showcase, please click here