frieze Writer’s Prize is an annual international award to discover and promote new art critics. The winning entrant was commissioned to write a review for the October 2008 issue of frieze and was awarded £2000. Two further awards of £500 were made for outstanding entries.
Judges
Nicolas Bourriaud (curator of the 2009 Tate Triennial)
Jennifer Higgie (co-editor of frieze)
Adrian Searle (Guardian art critic)
The winner of this year’s Writer’s Prize was:
William Gass, for his review of Milena Dragicevic, ‘OF ANTS’, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria.
Read the winner's commissioned review:
'Kori Newkirk & Miguel Angel Rios'
Runners up:
Graham T. Beck, for his review of Mike Nelson’s ‘A Psychic Vacuum’, The Old Essex Street Market, New York, USA
Conor Carville, for his review of ‘Somnambular Existence’, Louise Bourgeois at the Tate Modern, London, UK
We would also like to highly commend the following writers:
Kate Forde
Tyler Friedman
Clay Lerner
J. MacNeill Miller
Chris Moore
Marianne Templeton
