The 56th Venice Biennale, British Art Show 8, Manchester International Festival – we take a month-by-month look at the year ahead to provide a selection of key events for your diary.
Open exhibitions are becoming an increasingly common aspect of the visual arts landscape, with high-profile big hitters such as the BP Portrait Award and Royal Academy Summer Show joined by a growing number of smaller-scale shows. But with most charging an entry fee and with no guarantee of being included, are artists simply being asked to subsidise the sector with their own money? Jack Hutchinson investigates.
The third edition of the International Print Biennale has announced a shortlist of 37 artists for its two Print Awards exhibitions taking place in Newcastle upon Tyne this summer.
Five recipients of the £50,000 visual arts awards announced.
Exhibition showcases works by Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Awards winners 2012.
Newtown-based gallery Oriel Davies announced the winners of its Open 2012 Awards at a ceremony on 28 April.
This month’s prizes and awards announcements.
Manick Govinda on the often secretive processes behind awards by nomination as well as the benefits for artists in terms of recognition and critical acclaim.
Nina Madden gives an overview of some of the visual art prizes selected from open submission competitions.
Ceramicist Rebecca Harvey, whose work reflects her fascination with teapots, has won a £12,000 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship. St Ives-based Harvey will use the award to study for an MA in ceramics and glass at London’s Royal College of Art. Harvey […]
A plethora of shortlists and prize-winners have recently been announced, making April a bonanza prize month.
Twenty-three of Scotland’s leading writers, visual artists, poets, musicians, dance artists and crafts professionals have been shortlisted for this year’s Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Creative Scotland Awards. The £300,000 awards scheme is for projects that are inspiring and highly […]
A prize pot of £65,000 was distributed to artists in April in the 2004 Beck’s Futures awards. Designed to identify and present the “most promising contemporary artists working in Britain today”, the shortlist of ten was seleced by curators Klaus […]
Round-up of recent prizes and awards announcements and shortlists.
Prizes and awards taking place over the summer months.
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As part of our commitment to supporting artists, we are offering bursaries of between £500 to £1,500 for continued professional practice.
London-based painter Cathy Lomax wins the first edition of this new, artist-led prize, selected from a shortlist of 15 artists.
The Argentinian artist best known for his large-scale concrete and clay sculptures has won the international art prize sponsored by fine art paper manufacturer Canson.
