2022 LONDON ACQUISITION PRIZE
THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM,
University of Cambridge
The 2022 acquisitions became part of the permanent collection of The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. This institution is renowned for its vast and diverse collection of over half a million objects, ranging from ancient artefacts like Egyptian relics and medieval manuscripts to modern art and classical sculptures. The museum showcases historical and contemporary pieces, offering award-winning exhibitions and programs. It serves as the leading partner of the University of Cambridge Museums and Botanic Garden.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Luke Syson the Director and Marley Curator at the Fitzwilliam Museum. He was also a Curator of Italian Painting Before 1500 and Head of Research at the National Gallery in London. He was one of the curators who organised the Enlightenment Gallery at the British Museum, and had a leading role in the team that planned the new Medieval and Renaissance art galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
2022 ACQUISITION
Sylvia Snowden
Snowden works with oil paint and pastels as well as acrylic and collage to create her expressionist, distorted, monumental figures, capturing the psychological essence of her subjects, their triumphs, torments, joys and pains using thick impasto, the technique where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly. She has taught at Howard University, Cornell and Yale, has served as an artist-in-residence, a panelist, visiting artist, lecturer/instructor and curator in universities, galleries and art schools both in the United States and internationally. She has exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Women’s Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, The Phillips Collection, Heckscher Museum of Art, and the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and National Archives for Black Women’s History. Her works have been shown in Chile, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Australia, the Bahamas, France, Mexico, Italy and Japan.