ING Discerning Eye
- Awarded by Discerning Eye, ING and Parker Harris (organizers of annual exhibition).
- Annual.
- Sponsor’s prize of £5,000 and Founder’s prize of £2,500. Various other monetary awards down to £250, along with a Drawing Bursary of £1,000. A key reward for this scheme is the exhibition of work in the Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries.
- Open to all British artists or those resident in the UK.
- The programme is advertised as providing a unique opportunity for works by lesser-known artists to be hung alongside those by internationally known names.
- Combination of invited artists and open submission of works. Six selectors – two artists, two collectors, two critics – curate their own separate exhibitions, taking a minimum of 25% of their final selection from the pool of submitted works.
- www.discerningeye.org