Winners at this year’s BRIT Awards will be presented with a ‘double trophy’ they can share with someone important to them.
Artists Es Devlin and Yinka Ilori have designed a trophy that comes in two parts for the ceremony – where artists including Dua Lipa, Celeste and Arlo Parks have been nominated.
Award recipients will be given the ‘double trophy’ and ‘encouraged to award the second smaller trophy on to someone else’ who could be ‘entirely unrelated to music’, according to a statement from the organisers of the ceremony.
‘Act of kindness’: Winners at this year’s BRIT Awards will be presented with a ‘double trophy’ they can share with someone important to them
The design features one larger, multicoloured trophy, as well as a smaller metallic version.
In previous years, artists and designers including Tracey Emin, Dame Vivienne Westwood, Sir David Adjaye and Sir Anish Kapoor have designed Brit Awards trophies.
Devlin said: ‘Yinka and I thought the best award that one could receive would be agency to award another.
‘Each recipient is invited to award the second trophy to someone they consider worthy – it might be recognition – or it might be someone that does something entirely unrelated to music.’
Change: Billie Eilish is seen with her award at the 2020 ceremony – she picked up the International Female gong
Ilori said: ‘The idea came from the experience of lockdown, where your neighbour you’ve lived beside for six years and never say hello to suddenly gave you flowers, foods, acts of kindness. I wanted to capture that.
‘I would describe it as two artists from different disciplines, different inspirations, coming together to design a trophy based around the idea of giving something back – acts of kindness.’
The BRIT Awards will feature an audience of 4,000 people as part of the Government’s live events pilot scheme.
Designers: Artists Es Devlin (L) and Yinka Ilori have designed a trophy that comes in two parts for the ceremony – where artists including Dua Lipa, Celeste and Arlo Parks have been nominated
Congrats! Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks and Celeste are leading the BRIT Awards nominations
Dua, Griff, Arlo and Headie One are among the artists scheduled to perform during the ceremony, which will be hosted by Jack Whitehall.
Dua, Arlo, Celeste, rap duo Young T & Bugsey and DJ and producer Joel Corry are all nominated three times at this year’s awards.
Jessie Ware, dance music duo Bicep and rappers AJ Tracey, J Hus and Headie One all scored two nominations apiece.
The Brit Awards will take place on May 11 at the O2 Arena in London.
Dua, Arlo and Celeste are leading the BRIT Awards stars with three nods each after the nominees were announced last month.
2019: Sir David Adjaye designed the Brit Award for the 2019 ceremony
Array of designs: Designer Vivienne Westwood designed the patriotic 2010 Brit Award (left) while Tracey Emin designed the 2015 trophy (right)
The three artists are all nominated for Female Solo Artist and Mastercard Album, with Dua Lipa also in the running for British Single, while Arlo Parks and Celeste feature in the shortlist for Breakthrough Artist.
The nominations for this year’s awards were revealed via an exclusive launch across the awards’ social channels by Radio One star Nick Grimshaw and this year’s BRITs Rising Star winner Griff, who virtually took fans through the nine shortlists.
The show will be held on May 11 at The O2 arena in London, broadcast on ITV and ITV Hub, and hosted by Jack Whitehall.
Brit female and double nominee for 2021 Jessie Ware is up for Mastercard Album as well as Female Solo Artist which, along with Dua, Arlo and Celeste, also sees Lianne La Havas up for the title.
Many of the stars who have already been announced took to social media to celebrate their success by sharing pictures of the cards listing their nominations.
Buzzing: The three artists are all nominated for Female Solo Artist and Mastercard Album, with Dua Lipa also in the running for British Single
Dua, Jessie and Arlo Parks all shared their happy news on Instagram.
Flying the flag for British rap with three nominations are Young T & Bugsey, who are nominated for British Single and Breakthrough Artist, and will face The 1975, Little Mix, Bicep (also in Breakthrough Artist) and Biffy Clyro in the British Group category.
AJ Tracey is shortlisted twice; one nod in the British Single category, and a second for Male Solo Artist, along with Yungblud, Joel Corry, J Hus and Headie One.
J Hus earns a second nomination in Mastercard Album, whilst Headie One also features in the shortlist for British Single.
Along with Male Solo Artist, Joel Corry receives two more nominations, for Breakthrough Artist and British Single, bringing his tally up to three in total.
Wow! Many of the stars who have already been announced took to social media to celebrate their success by sharing pictures of the cards listing their nominations
The British Single category also sees Aitch up for his second BRIT, having last year been nominated for Best New Artist.
Dance & electronic acts 220 Kid, Nathan Dawes and Regard also get a look in this shortlist, as does Harry Styles, whose performance at the 2020 show was one of the evening’s highlights.
The international categories see new and returning artists alike; nominated for their first ever BRIT in International Group are BTS, Run the Jewels and Fontaines D.C., alongside Foo Fighters, who have won this category four times previously and Haim, who have been nominated twice before.
International Female as ever showcases incredibly multi-talented and creative women, with Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Cardi B, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift all shortlisted – Miley receives her debut BRIT nomination this year.
Big news! Dua has been nominated for three nominations in total
Joyful: She shared the happy news with her followers on Instagram
The BRITs welcomes The Weeknd into the category for this year’s International Male, having been nominated twice before, plus Childish Gambino, Tame Impala, Burna Boy (who appeared at the 2020 BRITs as part of Stormzy’s performance) and Bruce Springsteen, marking his 11th BRIT nomination.
Earlier this month, The BRITs announced the winner of this year’s Rising Star supported by BBC Radio 1 award as Griff, who joins an illustrious list of artist alumni such as Adele, Florence + The Machine, Sam Smith, Ellie Goulding and Celeste who were all identified through this award (previously known as Critics’ Choice) as the future stars of British music. Griff will perform at The BRITs in May.
Source: Daily Mail
