Award Winning Artwork

Published 10:07 on 27 Jan 2023

We are thrilled to hear that an artwork by Artist Sophy King has been has been selected as one of three winners of the Meadow Arts commission award.

The submitted work was a sublimation print on aluminium, of a photograph. The photograph is of a sculpture/object, and the object is part of an ongoing intervention/land art project which was installed in 2022 at Rudyard Lake.

First of a series of stone carvings bearing witness to drought and flood levels as extreme weather becomes normalised. Hunger stones serve as famine memorials and warnings and were erected throughout Europe in the 15th through 19th centuries. These stones were embedded into rivers during droughts to mark the water level as a warning to future generations that they will have to endure famine-related hardships if the water sinks to this level again. In 2022 we saw water levels fall to extremes. This carving is the beginning of a project to bring a new set of warning stones marking water levels, high and low. It poses a question about what next year will bring.

Witness, 2022, sublimation print onto aluminium, 120cm x 80cm

Drought Stone I, 2022, sandstone carving at Rudyard Lake, Staffordshire