Visual Arts

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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/

The Jolomo Foundation.
Biennial (ran in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013)
Winning award of £25,000 with an additional £10,000 divided amongst the second and third award winners.
Open to all emerging artists over 18 years of age committed to painting the Scottish landscape. Applicants must be painters living and working in Scotland. They can be students or recent graduates of art school. If more than five years has passed since graduation, the body of work submitted must be approved by a qualified referee – for instance, a gallery owner. ‘Artists can emerge at any age.’
Open application policy via written form and virtual submission of work. Thereafter, shortlisted candidates are interviewed by the judging panel at the same time as the submission of their original works.
http://www.jolomofoundation.org/previous.html

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.
£3,000 for the Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award (best work by an artist under 30 years) and £2000 prize and purchase of winning work for the Walter Scott Award. Both award winners are chosen from entries to the annual exhibition held in Edinburgh. The former prize is for the best outdoor scene and the latter is given for the ‘…most outstanding work’.
RSW members and their guests are eligible to enter the exhibition. The work of non-members is selected from an open submission.
The exhibition is intended to be a celebration of water-based painting.
Exhibition pieces and prizewinners chosen by RSW judges.
http://www.rsw.org.uk/pages/awards.php

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Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
Biennial.
First prize of £6,000.
Eligibility limited to landscape artists under the age of 30.
Award deals with all aspects of landscape art but excludes video and installation.
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.
http://www.gilchristfisheraward.co.uk/2016/

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