NEWS RELEASE: Architecture graduate, Jerome Wren, wins the 2017 Newbery Medal

June 16, 2017


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Jerome Wren, winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal

Jerome Wren, a 24-year old
graduate from the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the GSA has won the 2017
Newbery Medal it was announced today, 16 June 2017. The Newbery Medal which is the highest accolade awarded to a graduating student from The Glasgow School of
Art, was awarded to Jerome at graduation in the Bute Hall, University
of Glasgow, this afternoon
.
“Palais des Machines” from Jerome Wren’s Stage 5 city investigation
We are all very proud in the Mackintosh School of
Architecture that Jerome has won the 2017 GSA Newbury Medal,”
says Head of School,
Sally Stewart. “Jerome is a highly creative and agile student whose work
addresses societal issues at a civic scale as well as where the public come
face to face with architectural detail. He is both a conceptual thinker
and a fine craftsman as can be seen by his dexterity in analogue and
digital drawing and representation and the variety of physical models
created throughout his design process for his thesis project in Paris,
each one beautiful in their own right. Jerome is a talented, industrious,
popular and modest student who leads by example. “
Chairman’s Medals meanwhile
were awarded to
Ren Yu
P’Ng
(Mackintosh School of Architecture), Fred Wordie (Product Design) and Anna Wachsmuth (Painting and Printmaking).

Hannah Mooney Trees in the Wind I

A total of 41graduating students were
awarded prizes this year including Hannah Mooney (painting and printmaking)  who won no fewer than four awards:
Landscape Drawing Prize for a
sketch done in the open, The James Nicol McBroom Memorial Prize for Fine
Art  the
Armour
Prize for Still life and Glasgow
Print Studio Publication Prize For the production of a publication 

Tamara MacArthur – “It’s All Getting A Little Bit On Top OF Me”
 Installation and performance 2017

The 2017 Steven Campbell Hunt Medal was
awarded to
Tamara MacArthur.
This
year also saw the introduction of new awards including the Kerry Aylin Prize for Distinction in Print and the Jon McFarland Prize for Printmaking.
The Kerry Aylin prize for a final year Communication Design student has been
introduced in memory of the GSA graphic design lecturer who passed away in
April. The inaugural award went to
Dominique Campistron. The Jon McFarland award, founded in memory of recent GSA
graduate who died of cancer last year, went to Alison Johnson.
For the
full list of prize winners see Notes for
Editors



AWARDS AND PRIZES 2017
NEWBERY MEDAL,
top graduating student
Jerome Wren (Mackintosh School of
Architecture)
CHAIRMAN’S MEDALS
Ren Yu P’Ng (Mackintosh School of
Architecture),
Fred Wordie (Product Design)
Anna Wachsmuth (Painting and Printmaking).
OPEN AWARDS
W.O. Hutcheson Prize
(for the purchase of a drawing by a final year student)
Marc
Johansen, Communication Design        
Robert
Colvin, Diploma 2 Architecture
Landscape Drawing Prize (for
a sketch done in the open)
Hannah
Mooney, Painting & Printmaking
Robert
Colvin, Diploma 2 Architecture
GSA Prize for Sustainability
Winner:
Eleanora Jaroszynska, SEA
Highly
commended: Jennifer Mallon, Arch; 
Harriet Fawcett, SEA
Runners-up:
Ane Lopez, MDes Com Des; Beth Furini, Textiles
Bram Stoker Award
Miki Asai, Silversmithing &Jewellery
Dissertation Prize
(for the best dissertations by School of Fine Art and School of Design)
Sgàire Wood, Fashion
Jamie Edmundson, Sculpture & Environmental Art
Radu Lungu, Fine Art Photography
Essay Prize  (for the best essay by School of Fine Art and
School of Design)
Holly
Martin Bates, Product Design
Vivienne
Lee,
Sculpture & Environmental Art
Finlay
Clark, Painting & Printmaking
MACKINTOSH SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Joe Park Award
(for best part-time student (Part 1 and Part 2))
Part
2 Student: Enda Williamson, Diploma 3 Part-time
Bourdon Prize
(for meritorious work)                                        
India
Czulowski, Diploma 2
MSA Stage 4 BArch(Hons) Portfolio
Prize
(for the best portfolio in Stage 4, BArch(Hons))
Adam
Telfer, Year 4
MSA Research Project Prize
(for best research project submitted for the Diploma in Architecture)
Linus
Third, Year 4
The Lynn Scobie Memorial Prize for
Architecture
(awarded
to a third year student of Architecture who has made an outstanding
contribution to the ethos and spirit of the student community through their
work, activities or initiatives)
Murray
Morrant, Year 3
Constanza
Brand, Year 3
SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Silversmithing
and Jewellery
Richard H Arroll Memorial Prize (for Silversmithing &
Jewellery)
Aillie Anderson
Incorporation of Hammermen (Silversmithing
& Jewellery        
Miki Asai
Isla Christie
The Peter Wylie Davidson Memorial
Prize
(for the purchase of work from a final year Silversmithing
and Jewellery student)
Andrew
Fleming
Fashion
and Textiles
Incorporation of Bonnetmakers
(for the top student in Fashion or Textiles – awarded at Inc of Bonnetmakers
annual dinner)          
Kate
Connell, Textiles
Incorporation of Weavers Innovation Prize (for weave)
Nicole
Watson, Textiles
Kate
Hunter, Textiles
Incorporation of Tailors (to
best final year student displaying tailoring skills or an interest in tailoring
– awarded at Inc of Tailors annual dinner)       
Hannah
Tan, Fashion
Bill Naysmith Innovation Award (for
most innovative student in furnishing textiles)
Beth
Furini, Textiles
Incorporation of Skinners &
Glovers Prize
(prize for leatherwork)
Joanne
Mearns, Fashion
Interior Design
Stakis Prize (for
Interior Design)
Venus
(Tin) Pang
The Douglas Clerk Memorial Prize
(awarded to a final year Interior Design student who has excelled in their
studies)
Osato
Emumwen
James Brough Memorial Prize
(for Interior Design)
Venus
(Tin) Pang
Communication Design
The Avril V Gibb Memorial Prize
(for the purchase of work from a final year undergraduate Communication Design
student)
Dominique
Campistron
Lucy
Watkins
The Kerry Aylin Prize for
Distinction in Print
(awarded to a final year
Communication Design student producing innovative work that incorporates
elements of print)
Dominique
Campistron
Critical Reflection Journal Prize
(for best journal in Masters in Communication Design, Illustration, Graphic
Design,Photography)      
Peter
Locke, MDes Communication Design
SCHOOL OF FINE ART
Steven Campbell Hunt Medal
(for a final year Fine Art student – for work of the most poetic creativity.
Selected
by Carol Campbell)
Tamara
MacArthur
Painting & Printmaking
The James Nicol McBroom Memorial
Prize
(for Fine Art Purchase prize for a student of
Painting & Printmaking.  The purchased piece will become part of the
GSA Archives & Collections.)
Hannah
Mooney Painting & Printmaking
Painting
Armour Prize for Still life
Hannah
Mooney
Printmaking
Glasgow Print Studio
(1 year membership)
Robbie
Spriddle
Glasgow Print Studio Publication
Prize
(for the production of a publication)
Hannah
Mooney
Euan Stewart Memorial Prize
(for a Printmaking student)
Elizabeth
Pearson
Philip Reeves Prize
(for a Printmaking student)
Lizzie
Urquhart
Jon McFarland Prize for
Printmaking
(for a student working in printmaking)
Alison
Johnston
Sculpture
Benno Schotz Prize
for sculpture
Kathryn
Hanna
Fine Art Photography
The Alice Duncan Prize Travel Award (for
final year Fine Art Photography student)
Anne-Mie
Bak Andersen
Environmental Art
The David Harding Public Art
Project Pri
ze  (for a
public art project by an Environmental Art student)
Eleanora
Jaroszynska