2007 Award winners
The ten winners of the 2007 Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards are as follows:
Antonio Sitoe (Mapfara): a skilled ceramicist, whose works are full of wit and humour, Mapfara is the first winner from Mozambique, which became a member of the Commonwealth in 1995.
Bright Eke: one of a particularly strong coterie of installation artists from Nigeria, Bright Eke is a sensitive and original artist whose works explore the environment and ecology.
Paul Ssendagire: a printmaker and the first winner from Uganda since the awards began in 1986. The outcome of the residency will not only be significant for Paul Ssendagire but for all printmakers and artists in Uganda.
Jignasha Ojha: a painter from India, Jignasha Ojha updates the miniature tradition, exploring modern and traditional India, in her brightly-coloured canvases.
Atif Khan: the printmaker Atif Khan reflects the global positioning of his native Pakistan and explores the increasing gap between East and West, loading his narrative prints with objects and symbols.
Sadia Salim: an inheritor of Pakistan's rich pottery tradition, Sadia Salim works with traditional potters designing and finishing practical objects, while working on her own distinctive studio pieces.
Nicoleta Kalatha: the winner from Cyprus, Nicoleta Kalatha, is an original and innovative video artist whose imaginative works marry the skill of the artist with that of the theatre and new media.
Oneika Russell: from Jamaica, Oneika Russell produces digital animations, drawings, collages and prints which depict ironic visual stories and borrow imagery from literature and contemporary culture to comment incisively on the politics of race and gender and world events.
Akuzuru: installation artist Akuzuru from Trinidad and Tobago creatively combines different media to raise provocative questions and engage in cross-cultural themes.
Josaia McNamara: the painter Josaia McNamara from Fiji Islands is at the forefront of the new wave of Melanesian art which uses traditional colours and patterns of the islands with contemporary interpretation.
