Fine Art student awarded Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize

The Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize is a prestigious prize awarded annually to two final year undergraduate students specialising in sculpture at art schools with which Armitage had a close association.

Elrick Boldy’s work explores the boundaries between written language and shape using patinated, plasma cut steel. The work uses asemic writing, a wordless, semantic form that resembles writing but lacks specific linguistic meaning, with this scrawl-like mark making being transformed into sculpture, balancing the industrial nature of steel with organic, gestural shapes.