• Skip navigation
  • Jump to top of page
  • Accesskey details
  • Home page
  • Site Map
  • Accessibility
  • About Us
  • Composers Funding
  • Visual Arts Funding
 

Funding directory for visual artists and composers

Print

Visual Arts

Posted in ‘20 – 40K’

Artes Mundi Prize

  • Artes Mundi.
  • Biennially – even-numbered years.
  • Top prize of £40,000, with runners-up awarded £4,000. The work of short-listed artists is displayed as part of the Artes Mundi exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff.
  • Open to any artist of any age and nationality whose work explores the human condition.
  • Focus on international contemporary visual artists who engage with social reality and lived experience.
  • Open call for nominations artists via an online form. Artists can be nominated more than once across successive cycles. Two selectors then determine a shortlist of 5–7 artists for exhibition. Prizewinner is selected by a larger panel of eminent judges that does not include the original selector.
  • http://www.artesmundi.org

Tags: 20 - 40K | International | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

Baloise Art Prize

  • Baloise and Art Basel International Art Fair.
  • Annual – winners are announced at Art Basel fair.
  • Two top prizes of CHF 30000 (£21,770). Prize includes the acquisition by Baloise of a selection of works by the award winner. Baloise buys groups of works by the prize­winners with the object of donating them to two lead­ing European museums, currently the MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and the MUDAM, Luxembourg.
  • Eligibility limited to ‘emerging artists’, but candidates can be of any nationality.
  • Outlook of the award tied up with that of the corporate founder: ‘Baloise believes that the privilege of owning art brings with it the obligation to present it to a wider public.’
  • Winners chosen by a jury of five curators and art directors.
  • https://www.baloise.com/en/home/about-us/responsibility/art-baloise.html

Tags: 20 - 40K | International | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

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

Tags: 20 - 40K | Painting | UK   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

Celeste Prize

  • Celeste International – based in New York.
  • Annual.
  • A total of €23,000 in prizes divided across categories of painting and drawing, photography and digital graphics, video and animation, installation, sculpture and performance and a prize for young artists. Other benefits include promotion and expenses.
  • Unrestricted entry.
  • Aims to ‘…promote international contemporary art in its widest sense’.
  • Selection from a shortlist of 50.
  • http://www.celesteprize.com/prize/

Tags: 20 - 40K | International | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

Columbia Threadneedle Prize: Figurative Art Today

  • Mall Galleries.
  • Biennial.
  • The Columbia Threadneedle Prize champions figurative art today. It is one of the most valuable open art competitions in Europe.
  • One artist will be chosen to win the First Prize of £20,000 and a solo exhibition. A further prize of £10,000 is awarded by visitors to the exhibition, which takes place at Mall Galleries in central London. Five Shortlisted Artists each receive £1,000.
  • The Prize, UK and Europe’s pre-eminent prize for figurative and representational art, showcases important new works by emerging and established artists.
  • https://columbiathreadneedleprize.mallgalleries.org.uk/

Tags: 20 - 40K | International | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

  • The Photographers’ Gallery.
  • Annual.
  • First prize of £30,000, and £3,000 for the three runners-up, with an exhibition at the Photographer’s Gallery for all four shortlisted candidates.
  • Artists can be of any nationality and are nominated on the basis of a previous exhibition/publication within Europe.
  • Rewards artists who have made a ‘significant contribution’ to the medium of photography in Europe over the previous year.
  • Candidates are nominated by an independent academy of experts and are subsequently judged by a jury of four.
  • www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/en/support/photography-prize.php

Tags: 20 - 40K | International | Photography   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

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/

Tags: 20 - 40K | 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/

Tags: 20 - 40K | UK | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

The Jameel Prize

  • Victoria and Albert Museum.
  • Biannual.
  • A single prize of £25,000 is awarded to the winner at a prize-giving ceremony.
  • Entry is by nomination only. Nominations are invited from a wide range of specialists with a knowledge of contemporary art and design inspired by the Islamic tradition. More than 200 artists are put forward in this way.
  • The prize is truly international. It is not restricted to entrants who are Muslim or from the Islamic world, but is open to designers for any nationality, creed or age.
  • The aim of the award is to ‘…explore the relationship between Islamic traditions of art, craft and design and contemporary work as part of a wider debate about Islamic culture and its role today’.
  • The shortlisted artists and designers are invited to show examples of their work in a special exhibition at the V&A.
  • http://www.vam.ac.uk/info/jameel-prize-4

Tags: 20 - 40K | International | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

Turner Prize

  • Tate.
  • Annual.
  • £25,000 for the winner and £5,000 for each of the other nominees. Shortlisted artists present works in a show normally held at Tate Britain before the winner is chosen.
  • British artists under 50.
  • High-profile prize to celebrate new developments in contemporary art.
  • Nominations are invited each year and are judged by a rotating independent jury. Members of the jury in 2014 were: Stefan Kalmar, Helen Legg, Sarah McCrory, Dirk Snauwaert and Penelope Curtis.
  • http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/abouttheturnerprize.shtm

Tags: 20 - 40K | International | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

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

Tags: 20 - 40K | UK | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  


  • Home
  • About
  • Accessibility
  • Site map
  • Incorrect/missing information?
  • Print