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The shortlist for the ninth Catlin Art Prize features eight artists, with recent graduates of the Royal College of Art dominating the selection.

£30,000 of prize money has been awarded to artists by the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and the Lynn Foundation.

The artist Alex Hartley has won the Arts Foundation’s £10,000 Art in the Elements award, chosen from a shortlist of four.

Chosen from over 400 applicants, Photoworks and Jerwood Visual Arts have announced the three artists who will each receive £5000 to develop new work.

The winners of The Arts Foundation’s annual awards will be announced later this week, with this year’s fine art category throwing a spotlight on artists who make objects, interventions and installations out in ‘the elements’.

The winner of the sixth Artes Mundi prize is the American artist Theaster Gates.

The publication on Tuesday of an a-n news feature investigating the subject of open exhibitions and entry fees has prompted a flood of comments on social media.

Co-creators of the Tower of London ‘poppy’ installation, artist Paul Cummins and theatre designer Tom Piper, have been recognised in the 2015 New Year’s Honours list, alongside outgoing Arts Council England CEO Alan Davey and Metal founder Jude Kelly.

“So many of our friends are now having to leave London, who can afford to stay?” Artes Mundi-shortlisted artists Karen Mirza and Brad Butler on a year of “being squeezed”.

In the first of our end-of-year series, Rose Wylie – winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2014 – reflects on 12 months that have seen the joy of her achievements tempered by personal loss.

The search is on for the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2015, with the fundraising charity announcing that the photographer Martin Parr has been commissioned to produce a portfolio of the shortlisted museums.

Lowcs International has awarded commissions to two artists, Liam Aitken and Rich White, following the Swansea-based organisation’s second annual Public Art Open Submission competition.

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard have been announced winners of The 2014 British Independent Film Award’s Debut Director category for 20,000 Days on Earth, their feature film about Nick Cave that merges fiction with documentary.

The winner of the 2014 Film London Jarman Award and the four recipients of Random Acts commissions for Channel 4 have been announced.

Glasgow-based filmmaker Duncan Campbell has been announced winner of the 2014 Turner Prize.

Kelly Best and Georgie Grace have been selected for Jerwood Encounters: 3-Phase – a year-long artist development opportunity with exhibitions at Eastside Projects, Jerwood Space and g39.

The three artists shortlisted for the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s third triennial prize have been announced.

The French-Albanian artist Anri Sala has been awarded the sixth Vincent Award, which recognises European contemporary art.

The £40,000 Contemporary Art Society Annual Award for an artist working within a museum has been won by Nathaniel Mellors in partnership with Preston’s Harris Museum.

The British artist Haroon Mirza has won the fourth Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, which acknowledges artists whose work is felt to be particularly innovative and experimental.

The recipients of this year’s Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists include Turner Prize-nominated filmmaker James Richards.