Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde shortlisted for £25,000 award, with three out of the four nominees working with sculpture.
The fifth edition of the open painting prize features 39 painters, with exhibitions planned for London and Dublin.
The shortlist of five for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year 2016 has been announced, with the winner of the £100,000 prize to be revealed in July.
Canson, the paper manufacturer from France’s Ardèche region, has announced details of the five finalists for the annual international award that celebrates art and paper.
Led by a-n, Artquest and DACS, The Artists Fund is a new community interest company providing small grants to visual artists based in the UK. The pilot programme, which offers five £1,000 grants and three commissions of £2,000, is now open for applications.
The long list for the biennial painting prize has been announced, with four painters set to be awarded prizes of £2,500, and an overall winner receiving £25,000.
Biennial art prize split between two artists who will also have joint exhibition at gallery based in Newtown, Wales.
Shortlisted artists to develop proposals for a major new £30,000 commission, with winner to be announced at the end of 2016.
London-based artist and filmmaker wins £25,000 prize to fund the making of new work to be exhibited in Amsterdam in 2018.
Bristol’s artist-led festival has received a significant increase in funding from Arts Council England towards the production of its next edition, taking place in September 2016.
The Freelands Foundation has launched a new award to raise the profile of women artists and support the work of visual arts organisations outside London.
Bristol based artist wins £8,000 award to create new work for solo exhibition at artist-run London gallery Standpoint in 2017.
Four artists have been shortlisted for UK’s first dedicated award for sculpture, with the winner receiving £30,000.
An exhibition of the seven finalists for this annual prize that showcases artists from UK art schools will take place at Londonewcastle Project Space in central London, with the winner of this 10th anniversary edition receiving £5,000.
20 artists have been awarded prizes during the opening of the eighth annual RSA New Contemporaries exhibition, with a selection of the works due to tour from Edinburgh to Camden later this spring.
The Edinburgh-based painter receives £15,000 prize for his representational painting of the Scottish capital’s old town.
Arts Council England funding will support three-year project to develop contemporary visual art produced in Sheffield.
London-based artist wins third edition of £5,000 prize, with additional awards also announced at ceremony in Walsall.
The Contemporary British Painting Prize offers winner a solo exhibition at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery plus a £2,000 purchase prize for their work.
Kate Murdoch wins the fourth annual Shape Open with her sculpture Bad Head Day, inspired by the muddle and confusion that being partially deaf can cause.
London-based artist Marcia Farquhar recipient of inaugural £10,000 award for live art.
The fourth edition of the prize for final-year undergraduate fine art students, which offers a total award fund of £40,000 and a first prize that includes a 12-month studio fellowship at BALTIC 39 in Newcastle upon Tyne, is open for applications.
The sixth Max Mara Art Prize for Women, a collaboration between the Italian fashion group and the Whitechapel Gallery, has been won by Emma Hart.
London-based artist wins Europe’s leading open competition for figurative and representational art.
Eleven artists and designers have been shortlisted for the fourth edition of the £25,000 international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition.
