NEW YORK, Aug 18 — Artist and peace activist Yoko Ono has unveiled the four winners of the Lennon Ono Grant For Peace, which will be presented at a ceremony in Iceland in October.
The 2016 winners of the award — originally established in 2002 — are Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei, Inidian artist Anish Kapoor, Danish artist Arfur Eliasson, and Hungarian poet and performance artist Catalan Ladik.
The accolades will be bestowed upon the recipients at a ceremony to take place in Reykjavik on October 9, which would have been the 76th birthday of Ono’s late husband, John Lennon — with each winner to receive a grant of US$50,000 (RM200,250).
Commenting on the winners of the grant this year, Ono said: “I’m very proud to award the 2016 Lennon Ono Grant For Peace to these four incredible individuals.
“To have to label any of them with a description of what they do is both limiting and frustrating, because what they give to our world is so much bigger than even the tangible art they create.
“Born in different cultures, each of the recipients has shown us the true path of creativity, belief and hope for the world.
“Their huge contribution to our world is so much greater than the sum of its parts.”
Previous winners of the grant have included Pussy Riot, Doctors Without Borders, Michael Pollan and Alice Walker (via NME). — AFP-Relaxnews
