Mary Nagele, Chief Executive, Arts & Business NI and Karen Daye-Hutchinson, artist

Artist Appointed to create and design award pieces for Allianz Arts & Business NI Awards 2018

Congratulations to Karen Daye-Hutchinson

Arts & Business Northern Ireland is working with local artist, Karen Daye-Hutchinson, who has won the recent commission to design and create the Awards pieces for the Allianz Arts & Business NI Awards 2018. Karen is forging ahead with creation of the creative Awards pieces which represent ‘partnership’ the theme of this year’s Awards.

The final Awards pieces will be unveiled at the Awards ceremony which will take place in January 2018.

Mary Nagele, Chief Executive, Arts & Business Northern Ireland said: “the Allianz Arts & Business NI Awards 2018 are about celebrating the creativity of the local arts and business community. It is important to support local artists in the commissioning of these Awards pieces and we are delighted to be working with Karen Daye-Hutchinson and we look forward to unveiling the final pieces at the awards ceremony in January.”

Having studied Fine Art at both Belfast and Manchester, Karen exhibits nationally and internationally as an artist and more recently as a jewellery maker, under the name of Ghost and Bonesetter. Working between two studios, Belfast Print Workshop and Conway Mill Print making, artists books and exploring images on sculptural Jewellery have become her chosen media over the past 15 years, in particular the mixing of techniques and materials.

Karen Daye-Hutchinson explains “Using line and colour as a language I explore the perimeters of print making and painting with symbolism as an allegory. I deconstruct situations, fairy tales, nursery rhymes or poetry that are part of our childhood and adult culture. The stories told are either autobiographical or historical. I am looking forward to working with Arts & Business NI on the commission for the Allianz Arts & Business NI Awards.”

This design commission has been made possible with the support of JTI.

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