London-based Haroon Mirza is the first British artist to receive the biennial award which honours those influenced by the late American sculptor Alexander Calder.
Four artists from the north of England have received awards in the biennial New Light Prize, with Sheffield-based Mandy Payne winning the £10,000 Valeria Sykes Award for her depiction of Park Hill housing estate.
10 artists have been selected for annual competition and showcase exhibition which profiles the work of recent UK based graduates whose primary medium is painting or drawing.
Whitechapel Gallery and Max Mara fashion group have announced the shortlist for the sixth Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
In a piece originally published by The Conversation, artist and 1997 Turner Prize nominee Christine Borland, professor of art at Northumbria University, argues that the prize needs to transcend its own ‘structures of power’ and instead find a way for the art itself to be centre stage.
This year’s Turner Prize exhibition features work by Assemble, Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers, and is showing in Scotland for the first time in its 31-year history. Chris Sharratt reports from Glasgow.
The seven-strong shortlist for the international prize and exhibition’s seventh edition features artists from Angola, Lebanon, USA and Japan, and includes two well-known British artists.
As part of the year-long fig-2 show, which sees a new artist exhibiting every week at London’s ICA, the winner of the Student Open Call is Goldsmiths MFA student Manuel Mathieu.
Tom Harrison has been awarded the £8000 prize for his elevated depiction of the Singapore cityscape.
The UK’s longest-established painting prize is open for entries from now until 9 November 2015.
Artist wins award for apocalyptic film of building sites left empty and half built in austerity-hit Britain.
Ten artists working in the digital realm have been shortlisted for the new, open submission Sluice_screens prize.
The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture has announced the winners of its annual art prizes for artists working in lens-based media and water-based media, plus its annual travel award for graduates and current postgraduate students.
Flying Object, winners of the IK Prize 2015, are set to launch their multi-sensory environment at Tate Britain later this month – an experiential experiment that will see how taste, touch, smell and sound impact on how audiences encounter four paintings from the Tate collection.
The largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK has announced this year’s shortlist of 58 artists.
Six artist filmmakers have been shortlisted for the £10,000 prize, which this year will include a UK-wide tour as part of the programme for the first time.
The four shortlisted museums and their nominated artists have been announced for the Contemporary Art Society’s £40,000 Annual Award 2015.
The Whitworth Art Gallery follows its recent Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year win with a nomination for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize.
The sixth edition of the international photography prize, created to promote debate around global sustainability, features a shortlist of 12 photographers addressing the theme of ‘disorder’.
The recipients of the Jerwood Makers Open 2015 awards, which offers five artists commissions totalling £37,500 to realise significant new projects, are presenting the outcomes in an exhibition at Jerwood Space, London. Jack Hutchinson attended the preview and met the artists.
The Nottingham Trent University graduate has been announced winner of the £20,000 prize for a final year painting and sculpture student during the unveiling of an exhibition of twelve shortlisted artists at Baltic 39’s Project Space in Newcastle upon Tyne.
This year’s Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery, which reopened in February after a £15m extension.
The Argentinian artist best known for his large-scale concrete and clay sculptures has won the international art prize sponsored by fine art paper manufacturer Canson.
The third triennial Daiwa Foundation Art Prize , designed to give a British artist exposure to Japan’s visual arts sector, has been awarded to Oliver Beer.
Israeli artist Matan Ben-Cnaan has won the £30,000 portrait prize for his allegorical scene inspired by the bible story of Jephthah and his daughter.
