University of Kent fine art graduate Daniel Owusu has been recognised as the region’s outstanding emerging artist.
He was awarded the Platform Graduate Award 2016 at a ceremony at Margate’s Turner Contemporary Gallery on 7 December and will now receive a 12-month bespoke programme of professional development as well as a £2,500 bursary towards further development of his practice.
Daniel, who graduated in 2016 from the University’s School of Music and Fine Art, based at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham, won the award in competition with four other emerging artists from the South East who were shortlisted to the finals of this annual prize. Now in its fifth year, it is the second time a graduate from the School has won the award, more than from any other art school.
In all, 16 universities were chosen by the Aspex, De La Warr Pavilion, Milton Keynes, Modern Art Oxford and Turner Contemporary galleries for the competition, initiated by CVAN SE (Contemporary Visual Art Network South East). The selected graduate artwork from these universities’ has been shown in a series of group exhibitions over the past months. An artist from each exhibition was then shortlisted for the award.
