The Prize-Winners
Brigitte Soltau, Hulme.
Best Artwork in Trafford £500
 Brigitte Soltau
- (Video Podcast) worked for
many years as a community based artist before studying
for her M.A. in Ceramics where she perfected
techniques in printing onto paper clay. Brigitte’s
work draws heavily on her personal and professional
relationship with the Hulme of 1980's and '90's
Manchester.
Chris Leyland, Remember.
Highly Commended £400
 Chris
Leyland - (Video Podcast) is a trained
photographer and manages
Redeye’s Photomobile Unit, travelling
darkroom, digital suite, giant pinhole camera and
camera obscura. After graduating from Manchester
Metropolitan University, Chris became interested in
constructing images from objects found on walks in his
native Lancashire.
“I found the dress while working on land surrounding a
factory close to my childhood home. It was a sinister
experience at first; the dress was in a small clearing
scattered with empty cider bottles and discarded
pornography. Although the find was disturbing and
raised lots of questions, the colour and style of the
dress and the location also set me on a sentimental
path, thinking of happy times playing games with my
sister and how those times too, like the dress, were
just fragile memories." Chris Leyland 2008.
Audrey Hayes, Exposition.
Highly Commended £400
 Audrey
Hayes - (Video Podcast) is a Trafford-based
artist and designer who make wooden sculpture,
vessels, furniture and wall pieces. Her unique designs
range in scale from large outdoor sculptural furniture
to table-top vessels, made predominantly from
discarded wood. Inspired by the organic qualities of
the material, as well as by the challenge of
preserving its simplicity, Audrey strives to capture a
presence in her work that invites the viewer to touch,
question and caress each piece.
www.audreyhayes.co.uk
Joe Simpson, Untitled.
Visitors’ Choice Award £200
 Painter Joe Simpson graduated from University of Leeds
in 2007 and has a studio at Bankley Studios,
Manchester. Joe is currently working on incorporating
a musical soundtrack with series of paintings, which
includes Visitors Choice Prize winner, Untitled.
"If my paintings are to be likened to a moment in a
film, I think they would definitely be particular
moments where music is playing in the background and
in this sense they can be understood as 'mood' pieces.
Brought together as a collection they evoke the feel
of a movie montage sequence, where the narrative
shifts between key characters and depicts a passing of
time with a song in the background to tie down a
common theme and mood." Joe Simpson 2008.
www.joe-simpson.co.uk
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