Nationwide Mercury Prize
2006 Art Competition

 

“The Nationwide Mercury Prize Art Competition is the UK’s premier student art competition and exhibition. It was set up to provide students with a unique opportunity to have their work promoted to a wider audience.

 

Art and Design students were set the challenge of creating a painting or work inspired by, or on the theme of, music. Over 1600 students from over 100 art college and universities took part in the competition. The judges included acclaimed artist Sir Peter Blake, broadcaster and Director of Exhibitions at White Cube Gallery Tim Marlow and designers Mark Tappin and Simon Gofton.

 

Sixty finalists had their work exhibited in The Gallery at The Hospital in Covent Garden, London during April 2006. The winning work by Gethin Wyn Jones from Bath Spa University is featured on the cover of the Nationwide Mercury Prize 2006 Album of the Year.”