Winner:

The panel felt ‘Flow’ will be a work of quirky invention combining craft tradition, industrial heritage and digital technology that would use the riverside as the site of an interactive experience to transform people’s sense of place, space and nature, creating unforgettable images and strange sounds. We felt ‘Flow’ explored issues of environmental sustainability and the reinvention of a region with a proud history of innovation in a way that would leave a real legacy.

Ilana Mitchell

an artist and curator who describes her practise in the following words "Its a multifarious, tricky to define practice; I like to make artistic and other creative endeavours happen: my own, other peoples, collaborations and anything in between"

Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh

the Artistic Director of ZENDEH an inclusive cross border collaborative company creating intercultural multi-art form work that has local and international resonance. Freelance work includes directing Radio, Stage, Film and Lecturing.

Will Schrimshaw

an artist and researcher based at Culture Lab, Newcastle University. He is currently carrying out research into artistic practice at the intersection of sound-art and architecture.

Catherine Bertola

an artist whose practice involves creating installations, objects and drawings that respond to particular sites, collections and historic contexts. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally.

Peter Sharpe

a curator of the the Kielder art and architecture programme for the past 10 years, Peter was also responsible for commissioning James Turrell's Skyspace and recently, Charles Barclay Architect's Kielder Observatory.

Ira Lightman

visual artist and writer, his recent projects include art pieces with text throughout the North-East, including the award-winning Spennymoor Letters. He regularly appears on BBC Radio 3's The Verb, last year writing Miltonic verse blindfold.

Alison Clark-Jenkins

Director of Arts & Development for Arts Council England, North East, she has previously managed education and creative programmes around the country, as well as venue programming and arts marketing.

Sarah Goodfellow

Sarah Goodfellow replaces Lorna Fulton, who will be on maternity leave for the final presentations.

Sarah is Cultural Programme Advisor at London 2012 working across the Film, Music and young people’s projects, content for the Live sites, and Games development opportunities for the creative industries.  Previous roles include London Creative Programmer, and communications manager for the heritage lottery fund - focusing on the North East, Northern Ireland and the Midlands.