Golden Fleece DVD : "Lillias Mitchell and the Golden Fleece Award"

We have compiled a DVD on the subject of Lillias as an artist and a person and the history of the Golden Fleece Award : its aims, how it operates, the views of some of the people most closely involved in it.

 

We present here a small selection of clips from the DVD in which Nancy Larchet, Chair between 2001 and 2007 of the artistic panel who assess the entries, and Helen McAllister and Suzannah Vaughan, prizewinners from 2002 and 2004, speak about the award and what it means to them.

 Extract 1
Helen McAllister, first winner of the Award in 2002, speaks about what her art of creating embroidered shoe sculpture forms means to her.
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 Extract 2
Suzannah Vaughan, 2004 Award winner, talks about her art work in concrete and glass, and what winning the prize has meant to her financially and artistically.
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 Extract 3
Helen McAllister gives her views on what the Award stands for and what it implies about her status as an artist.
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 Extract 4
Nancy Larchet, Chair of the artistic assessors panel from 2001 to 2007, talking about the objectives and scope of the Golden Fleece Award as set up by Lillias Mitchell, and about the variety and quality of the entries that it has attracted. We also see samples of some of the entries that have been submitted for the Award.
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