Winner of the £10,000 cash prize donated by The Hari’s CEO and Chairman, Dr. Aron Harilela, is… Antrea Tzourovits! 

A resounding and worthy finalist. Not only was the work submitted for the exhibition produced to a very high level, with beautiful intricate carving and an intriguing and exquisite sculptural piece, but on further investigation, he showed a clear connection between the concept and the finished piece.

Woo Jin Joo showcased significant skill and quality of embroidery. 

The judges enjoyed seeing the work in person and could easily appreciate the artist’s reference to her cultural heritage. There was a relevancy to her work with ideas of recycling and regeneration that feels pertinent and her practice encourages a re-appreciation of objects or material things that are often overlooked and disposable.

Barbara Nati was commended for her dedication and commitment to highlighting the dangers and seriousness of climate change. It was agreed her work communicated this idea very powerfully.

 Her images conjure up the dystopian vision of a world consumed by carbon dioxide in an evocative and direct way, and her use of digital collage was inventive and well executed. 

My family has always had a passion for art with many pieces from our private collection featured throughout The Hari hotels in London and Hong Kong. 

This is the first of a new cultural tradition for us.”

Matthew Burrows MBE is represented by Vigo Gallery London and is the founder of Artist Support Pledge, a global movement in support of artists and makers. 

Burrows speaks of painting as a form of subsistence, dependent on and arising from the ground at his feet. His work explores the conditions by which we thrive and connect – individually, communally and cosmologically.

Aindrea Emelife trained as an art historian at the prestigious Courtauld Institute of Art and has quickly gone on to become a ground-breaking new voice in an art world otherwise steeped in tradition.

Aindrea debuted her first column for the Financial Times aged 20 years old, and has been published widely and internationally, including articles in The Guardian, Vanity Fair, The Telegraph, BBC, GQ, Frieze, The Independent, BBC and ArtNet.

Over the broad sweep of her 20-year career in the arts – Liz Gilmore has lead an innovative artistic enterprise on the South East coast of England, played a key role in the formation and delivery of Arts Council England’s strategic ambitions for visual arts, been an interpretation specialist at the heart of the evolution of The National Gallery’s learning programme and strategy development, and advised on learning policies to promote inclusion across multiple museums. 

Gavin Turk is a British born, international artist. He has pioneered many forms of contemporary British sculpture now taken for granted, including the painted bronze, the waxwork, the recycled art-historical icon and the use of rubbish in art.

Turk has recently been commissioned to make several public sculptures including L’Âge d’Or (2016), sited on the south corner of the Press Centre building in the Olympic Park and Nail, a 12-meter sculpture at One New Change, next to St Paul’s cathedral, London, England.

Melissa Digby-Bell has worked in the contemporary art sector since 2002, following a degree in History of Art at the University of Bristol. Her career began at White Cube, going on to manage the studios of high profile artists Marc Quinn and Anish Kapoor. 

In 2014, Melissa co-founded curatorial partnership and consultancy Mehta Bell Projects and has since launched Offshoot Arts – an art consultancy and gallery dedicated to supporting and promoting emerging and mid-career international artists.