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The Macclesfield-born artist wins the £25,000 prize and gives an emotional, politically-charged acceptance speech.

The gallery, which reopened in 2015 after a £8million redevelopment, is the only UK venue on a shortlist of 46.

Now in its second edition, Jerwood Open Forest has awarded its 2016 commission to artist Keith Harrison who will explore the links between community, industry, car manufacture and access to nature, in a new installation and performance event for autumn 2017.

The London-based artist and poet is presented with the £10,000 prize at an award ceremony at Whitechapel Gallery.

Four photographers, including Sophie Calle and Dana Lixenberg, have been shortlisted for the £30,000 international prize run by London’s The Photographers’ Gallery.

Serbian artist wins fifth edition of award for emerging artists and receives three-month studio residency at Griffin Gallery next year.

UK-based artists Phoebe Boswell, Rebecca Moss and Andy Holden are among the 21 artists shortlisted for fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize.

The London-based artist, who is shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize, wins the £30,000 biennial award.

Swiss-Italian artist wins £15,000 award for portrait of an 18-year-old Johannesburg schoolboy.

The Baltic Artists’ Award will provide a platform for the work of four emerging artists and celebrate the role of the artist-mentor.

Five visual artists and three composers each receive £50,000 ‘no strings attached’ awards to ‘develop their creative ideas’.

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Artist Donal Moloney’s painting, Cave Floor, is the visitors’ favourite, chosen from the 54 works on show at this year’s exhibition in Liverpool.

The Beirut-based artist has been announced as the winner of the biennial award for his forensically powerful film installation, earshot.

The Worthing-based sculptor Oliver Macdonald receives the £7,000 Shape Arts’ bursary plus a three-month residency at Turner Contemporary in Margate.

Italian duo Fabio Giampietro and Alessio De Vecchi win digital art prize with work that brings painting to life through virtual reality.

The French artist Pierre Huyghe has been announced as the recipient of the 2017 Nasher Prize for sculpture.

The Turner Prize may have grown lacklustre in recent years and its upper age limit of 50 looks increasingly problematic, but this year’s show at Tate Britain showcases the prize’s strongest shortlist for some time. Fisun Güner reports.

Six artists from the UK, America and Europe receive awards at the 4th International Print Biennale in Newcastle and across the North East.

The inaugural award for mid-career female artists will see the Edinburgh gallery present a new exhibition by Glasgow artist Jacqueline Donachie.

The four award winners of the longstanding art prize that celebrates and promotes insight into contemporary drawing have been announced.

London-based painter Cathy Lomax wins the first edition of this new, artist-led prize, selected from a shortlist of 15 artists.