PLATFORM centre is excited to announce the 2024 PLATFORM Photography Award Winner This year the award goes to lens-based artist, Skye Callow (MB).
PLATFORM is looking forward to supporting the creation of new works by Callow and working together over the next year. We are excited to see Skye activate Gallery 2 through experimental approaches to constructing images and further explore photographic sculpture. The award includes $3000 CAD, a full year of darkroom and digital workspace access, support from PLATFORM staff, and a one year membership to PLATFORM. This work will debut in March 2025 in Gallery 2.
Skye Callow is an artist based on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, originally from Sandy Hook, Manitoba. Through image making, assemblage, and installation practices, her work explores the magic of our ecological and metaphysical worlds and engages in the somatic experience of being in relation to the biosphere; a motif of ecology, self, and the land continuously presents itself. Skye is currently investigating the subjects of ecological empathy and hyperobjects, and the limits and possibilities of perception.
Skye holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours Degree from the University of Manitoba's School of Art and has exhibited in Winnipeg in spaces such as aceartinc., PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, and at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. She was selected for a featured emerging exhibition for the 2022 Flash Photography Festival and was commissioned by the Send and Receive Festival of Sound in 2023. Skye has also been active in film programming initiatives, working with the Winnipeg Film Group, independently, and as a member of the Open City Cinema Collective for the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival.
PAST RECIPIENTS
2023 Taylor McArthur, circles of existence
2022 Glodi Bahati, Notes on Self Invention
2021 Elise Dawson, The Ideal Make Body
2021 Alyssa Bornn, Soft Ceiling
2021 Charles Venzon, Balikbayan Boxes-The Remittance Project-Hereforu
2020 Jean Borbridge, Hypermarket Rupture
2020 Christina Hajjar, Don’t Forget to Count Your Blessings
2020 Iyunade Judah, Transcension
2019 Rhayne Vermette, True Stories
2018 Mariana Muñoz Gomez, Recorrer, to wander
2017 Hannah Doucet, I wondered when my body would deflate.