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BP Portrait Award

  • National Portrait Gallery.
  • Annual.
  • Award of £30,000 for first-prize winner with a total prize fund of £61,000.
  • Unrestricted entry.
  • Focus on promoting young figurative painting. More traditional outlook.
  • In 2015 a new procedure was introduced which required artists to submit a digital image of their work. From these, 456 works were selected for second stage judging where the original paintings were viewed and the exhibition selection made.
  • http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bp-portrait-award/exhibition.php

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Elephant Trust Grants

  • The Elephant Trust.
  • Trustees meet four times a year to consider applications, as advertised on website.
  • Grants of up to £2,000 but with the addition of the Shelagh Wakely Bequest some larger grants of up to £5,000 may be awarded.
  • Awards are available to UK artists for new, innovative visual projects. Small organisations and galleries are also eligible.
  • Aims to make it possible for artists to undertake and complete projects when confronted by lack of funds.
  • Open application by post. Requires projected budget, visual material and CV.
  • http://www.elephanttrust.org.uk/docs/intro.html

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ING Discerning Eye

  • 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. 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 displayed 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.
  • http://www.discerningeye.org/exhibition/intro/intro.php

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Jarman Award

  • Film London, Channel 4 and The Whitechapel Gallery.
  • Annual.
  • One award of £10,000 and a broadcast commission from Channel 4, worth £20,000.
  • Any mid-career film-maker from the UK can be put forward for the prize.
  • Focus on innovative artist film-making – ‘…the award is a means of recognizing artists who are changing the rules of the game’.
  • Ten artists shortlisted for a single prize. Winner chosen by a jury of five, including representatives from The Whitechapel Gallery and Channel 4.
  • http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/jarman_home/jarman_intro

Tags: 5 - 20k | Film | UK   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

Jerwood Drawing Prize

  • Jerwood Visual Arts.
  • Annual.
  • First prize of £8,000, second prize of £5,000 and two student awards of £2,000 each. Between 60–70 artists are also selected for an exhibition.
  • Open to all artists resident or domiciled within the UK.
  • The country’s leading award in drawing, and the largest and longest running annual open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the UK.
  • Selection by panel – artists are invited to submit their works though regional collection centres.
  • http://www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/projects/jerwood-drawing-prize-2016/

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Jerwood Makers Open

  • Jerwood Visual Arts.
  • Annually for three years.
  • £7,500 for makers submitting proposals for new work. The work will then be exhibited in London before touring the UK.
  • Open submission.
  • Focus on recognising making practices within contemporary visual arts. It offers crucial support in the early stages of their careers, enabling the selected artists to develop their creative ideas independently of specific commissioning structures.
  • Recipients selected by a panel of three.
  • http://jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerwood-makers-open

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Jerwood Painting Fellowships

  • Jerwood Visual Arts.
  • Annual.
  • £10,000 bursary and a six-month period of professional development support.
  • The Jerwood Painting Fellowships are specifically for UK artists who are within five years of graduating or setting up their practice.
  • They cannot have committed gallery representation, or have had a UK solo show at the time of applying.
  • Selection panel and subsequent interview.
  • http://www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/3467/Jerwood-Painting-Fellowships

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John Moores Painting Prize 2010

  • National Museums Liverpool/ Walker Art Gallery/ John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust.
  • Biannually – to coincide with the Liverpool Biennial.
  • First prize of £25,000 with four other prizes of £2,500. In addition, the winner of the popular ‘Visitor’s Choice’ prize will win £2,016 (in 2015). Exhibition at Walker Art Gallery for selected works
  • Artists must live or be professionally based within the UK. Candidates are judged on a particular piece.
  • Marketed as the UK’s biggest painting prize.
  • Open submissions shortlisted by a jury. Works must then be submitted through six depots across the UK and are brought to Liverpool for judging. Paintings worthy for exhibition and prizes are then selected.
  • http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/

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Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize

  • Lynn Foundation and Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers.
  • Annual.
  • First prize of £15,000, five runner-up prizes of £1,500, young artist award of £2,500. There is also a £5,000 prize for works of the human figure (for artists 30 years or under). Complemented by an exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London, SW1 featuring a wider range of paintings from the field of submissions.
  • Open to all UK based artists over 18 years of age.
    The purpose of the prize is to encourage creative representational painting and promote the skill of draftmanship. All work must be for sale, except commissioned portraits
  • http://www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk/

Tags: 5 - 20k | Painting | UK   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

RA Summer Exhibition

  • Royal Academy of Arts.
  • Annual.
  • Several monetary awards:
    • £25,000 (The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award) for the most distinguished work
    • £10,000 (The Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture) for sculpture first prize
    • £10,000 (Turkishceramics Grand Award for Architecture) for the most outstanding work of architecture.
    • Two prizes of £5,000 and £3,000 (The British Institution Awards for Students) for work across a comprehensive range of creative disciplines from painting to architecture
    • £5,000 (Hugh Casson Drawing Prize)
    • £4,000 (Sunny Dupree Family Award for a Woman Artist) for a painting or sculpture
    • £2,500 (London Original Print Fair Prize) for a print in any medium
    • £2,000 (The Arts Club Award) for an artist aged 35 or under for a work in any medium except architecture
    • £1,000 (The Rose Award for Photography) for a photograph or series of photographs
  • Around 1,200 works are also exhibited each year and many are sold.
  • Unrestricted entry within the UK – works are judged automatically according to their categories.
  • High profile scheme; the largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world.
  • A panel of Academicians judge all the pieces, and prizewinners are announced on non-members Varnishing Day, when exhibitors arrive to view their pieces.
  • www.summer.royalacademy.org.uk/

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The Arts Foundation Futures Awards

  • The Arts Foundation.
  • Annual.
  • Up to six £10,000 awards, each for a practitioner of a different art form. Categories rotate each year. In 2016, the categories are Arts in the Urban Space, Children’s Theatre, Producers of Live Music, Jewellery Design, Literary Translation and Materials Innovation.
  • Eligibility limited to artists living and working in the UK. The award is given to emerging artists who have achieved some professional standing. Selection based on both talent and need.
  • Aims to provide artists with stability to explore new forms at a critical stage and to facilitate cross-artform networking.
  • Shortlist for prizes drawn up by nomination. ‘The Foundation uses leading practitioners and experienced professionals whose key positions enable them to identify the most talented and deserving artists.’
  • www.artsfoundation.co.uk/

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The Gilchrist-Fisher Award

  • Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
  • Biennial.
  • First prize of £6,000.
  • Open to artists under the age of thirty whose work deals with the broad theme of landscape.
  • Application by written form and electronic submission of selected portfolio. Shortlist of six is chosen to produce work for an exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery. Prizewinners chosen on the basis of exhibition.
  • www.gilchristfisheraward.co.uk/home/

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The Leverhulme Trust Arts Training Bursaries

  • The Leverhulme Trust.
  • Next call for applications will be in spring 2018.
  • The aim of these awards is to provide training opportunities across the whole range of artistic disciplines in the fine and performing arts. Arts Scholarships may be in the form of (a) Bursaries to enable individuals to develop their talent and/or (b) Innovative teaching awards to provide new and original training opportunities for the students concerned.
  • Individual scholars or students may not apply directly to the Trust
  • https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/grant-schemes/arts-scholarships

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Wellcome Trust Arts Awards

  • Wellcome Trust.
  • Several awards each year.
  • Two types of award. Up to and including £40,000 for small-to-medium sized projects projects – delivery of small-scale productions, investigation of new methods, development of new collaborations. Above £40,000 for large projects – significant productions that will have high levels of impact.
  • Applicants must live and work in the UK or Republic of Ireland and are usually affiliated to third-party organisations (e.g. galleries). Collaborative projects are welcomed. Projects should involve the creation of new artistic work and must have some biomedical scientific input.
  • Scheme aims to stimulate interest, excitement and debate about biomedical science through the arts.
  • Slightly different application process for small and large projects. The former requires a written form that is assessed on merit and need by a funding committee. Initial applications for large grants are assessed by the Arts Awards Advisory Panel, which then invites successful applicants to develop a full proposal.
  • http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Public-engagement/Funding-schemes/Arts-Awards/index.htm

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