10th Edition Jury
An independent, jury of visual arts professionals, who represent different areas of expertise.
Members of the jury are selected from across the world. And new featured jurors join the panel in each Edition of the Award.
All artists’ submissions will be anonymous to the jury.
“Order of the Dawn” Oil on Linen by Eric Uhlir (6th Edition Finalist)
Chantal Boynes
Chantal Boynes is a Caribbean born artist who has studied and practiced fine arts worldwide, from Canada, to Italy to Australia to her native Trinidad and Tobago. She focuses on oil painting figurative works depicting women of colour while utilising the intensity and boldness of her colour palette, most certainly a reflection of the artistic practices of her home. Boynes has exhibited internationally in Switzerland, Australia, Jamaica as well as her home of Trinidad and Tobago.
In late 2019, while completing an Advanced Diploma in Melbourne, Australia, Boynes decided to expand her involvement in the art world and with other artists by attempting to create a way for emerging artists to have a platform that was solely dedicated to the support of talent. She did this by founding the Boynes Emerging Artist Award, an international art award accepting all 2D work. A competition run by artists and dedicated to artists.
Chantal Boynes has dedicated herself to not just her own practice, but the practices of all the talented artists in the Boynes Emerging Artist Award.
*From the 9th Edition the Boynes Emerging Artist Award was updated to the Boynes Artist Award, and changed to include artists of all backgrounds and experience levels.
Segolene Py
Segolene Py is an independent art curator and art writer focusing on the Caribbean and African art scene, in London and beyond. She is the founder of Exhibition Crave, a platform created in 2018 aiming to give content on the Caribbean and African art scene in London, and present artists of colour from around the world. Being mixed-race French Caribbean Segolene Py understands and has developed a deep interest in the importance of supporting and showing art by people of colour and under-represented minorities. Her engagement in curation was aimed in a means to create connections between people and understanding of our similarities in different experiences. Curating is a way of opening a door to change, bringing a different light on a subject matter and opening dialogues on untouched or taboo topics. Her curatorial practice centres on current social, political, or environmental issues, which is also where she takes inspiration from.
Segolene Py has organised 3 exhibitions to this date: Nature Encapsulated touching on wilderness and how we, as human beings, interact and position ourselves within it. about wilderness and how we, as human beings, interact and position ourselves within it; After Isolation: A Future Imagined/Predicted, a woman only group exhibition on imagining a post-pandemic world, and the artists’ experience of the isolation period; Plurality Now: New Futures, a group show by and from people of colour tackling the complexity of Black and Asian immigrant identity.
Gabriella Wyke
Gabriella Wyke is an artist and photographer from Trinidad and Tobago whose professional experience spans working as a freelance photographer, teaching and mentoring in the photography arena. Most of her current work discusses women’s issues and other societal issues affecting minority groups through black and white, documentary photography. As the daughter of a now retired military officer, she has never been a stranger to adapting to different environments as she and her family relocated multiple times throughout her father's military career. During this period of her life, she was exposed to many cultural experiences which she admits has had a tremendous impact on her development and growth as an artist.
In 2017, Wyke chose to further that development in photography by pursuing a degree at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia where she later graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography. Now she is the CEO of her own company, Gifts from Gab Studios Limited where she works as a freelance photographer, digital designer and more recently, a mentor to upcoming photographers through the Gifts From Gab Photography Mentorship Program.
Some of her photo- based work has been recognized globally by the likes of Fujifilm, the Eddie Adams Workshop and the Boynes Artist Award who honored her as their 6th edition, first place winner in 2022. Consequently, Wyke recently completed her first artist residency with Nocefresca in Sardinia, Italy in 2023 where she continued her project, Her Voice. There she photographed and interviewed women about their experiences concerning gender-based violence and gender roles in their community.
She was later awarded the Trinidad and Tobago National Youth Award for Youth Service and Humanitarianism for her work on that same project (Her Voice) that now includes images and contributions from 70 + women represented in two different continents of the world. Currently, Wyke resides in Trinidad where she continues to build her business, practice her craft and encourage others to fulfill their purpose. As she told Boynes Artist Award director, Chantal Boynes in an interview, “If you know that art is what you were put on this earth to do then do it without fear.”
