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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

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

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/

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/

Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
Annual.
Various awards open to artists of all ages, both young and established.
The annual awards reflect a commitment by the Society to promote and encourage member and non-member artists working in waterbased media.
www.rsw.org.uk/pages/awards.php

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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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