· Holm is the third GSA graduate to win the award in its five-year history.
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| Mads Holm, Downtown |
GSA Fine Art Photography graduate, Mads Holm, has won the 2016 Jill Todd Photographic Award it has been announced. Mads, who graduated in 2016, is the third GSA alumnus to win the award since it was established. He follows James Dixon (2013) and Frank McElhinney (2014).
The Jill Todd Photographic Award was established in 2010 in memory of the talented photographer who died tragically of cancer at the age of 23. Awarded annually it provides a valuable opportunity for emerging photographers to showcase a new body of work and benefit from the exposure of a gallery show. Mads Holm’s work can be seen in an exhibition at the Stills Gallery in Edinburgh until 17 January 2017.
“We are delighted that Mads has won the Jill Todd Photo Award,” says Lesley Punton, Head of Fine Art Photography at The Glasgow School of Art. “The profile that winning this award will give him will give his developing career as an artist and photographer a real boost"
Earlier this year Holm won the 2016 Danish Embassy Art Prize which was open to all Danish students studying in the UK and a body of his work is on show in the Embassy until next March.
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Notes for Editors
The Jury for the 2016 Jill Todd Photo Award comprised Robin Gillanders, Dr.Wendy McMurdo Anne Lyden, Ben Harman, Malcolm Dickson and John Duncan
Jill Todd graduated with a first class honours degree in Photography and Film from Edinburgh Napier University in 2009. Her career quickly took off after graduating. Following an internship at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh, as an emerging talent in Scotland, she went on to win commissions from prestigious organisations including The Royal Bank of Scotland and the Edinburgh Film, Science and Literature Festivals. Her blossoming career was cruelly ended by a short but aggressive cancer related illness which took her life in October 2010. Jill’s family has set up a trust to commemorate her name.