Four gallery educators have been presented with professional development awards in recognition of their dedication to the sector, at an awards ceremony during this year’s engage International Conference in Leeds.
Founded in 1994, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists programme has helped some of the UK’s best-known visual artists with no-strings-attached financial support at crucial points in their careers. On the eve of the announcement of this year’s awards, Chris Sharratt talks to the foundation’s head of arts and to 2012 recipient Ed Atkins.
The winner of the Visitors’ Choice award of this year’s John Moores Painting Prize is Juliette Losq for her painting Vinculum.
This year’s Platform Graduate Award, for recent art graduates in South East England, has been awarded to Sophie Dixon.
A new annual prize for art and film, launched by Amsterdam-based EYE film museum and the Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund, will honour artists and filmmakers who have successfully brought the two worlds together.
Zeitgeist Arts Projects have named the 23 strong list of artists who will participate in the organisation’s annual open submission exhibition this November.
Mixed media sculptor Malene Hartmann Rasmussen has been named as the winner of aspex gallery’s second annual open submission competition for artists and makers working with craft.
The eight award recipients of digital plaform The Space’s first open call for digitally innovative works will explore challenging questions around technology and personal freedoms.
The five artists shortlisted for the South East’s third annual Platform Graduate Award and mentoring programme have been announced.
The prizewinners of the third annual Lumen Prize international award for digital art have been announced.
The inaugural £5,000 Jerwood/Photoworks Awards has launched with the aim of attracting proposals in relation to ‘new approaches to photography’.
The 2014 Turner Prize show has opened to the public, with three of the four shortlisted artists presenting film pieces.
MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Community Foundation have announced the four shortlisted artists for the inaugural £10,000 New City Art Prize for the Visual Arts.
Scottish-born oil painter Mackie has been awarded the 18th National Open Art Competition’s top prize of £10,000, from a selection of 29 awards worth over £60,000 in total.
The winner of this year’s £20,000 prize for figurative and representational art is the Berkshire-based artist Tina Jenkins.
The winner of this year’s John Moores Painting Prize is Rose Wylie for her painting PV Windows and Floorboards.
Burmese artist San Zaw Htway has been announced as the winner of the £2500 Artraker Award for Impactful Conflict Art 2014 at the opening of the Art of peace exhibition in London.
Ramona Zoladek has been announced as winner of the £20,000 1st prize at the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize.
aspex gallery has announced the 14 artists, designers and makers selected for its second annual open exhibition of emerging craft practitioners.
The 20th Jerwood Drawing Prize has been won by the artist Alison Carlier for a sound piece described as an ‘open-ended audio drawing’.
The annual award given to a Welsh artist, whose work is purchased for the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery’s permanent collection, has been won by Clare Woods.
The National Open Art competition has announced details of this year’s shortlisted artists ahead of the exhibition opening on 18 September.
Jessica Fulford-Dobson, Birgit Püve, Blerim Racaj and David Titlow have been named as the four shortlisted photographers for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.
A mass participation artwork by Manchester-based artist duo Sagar and Campbell has won the National Lottery Good Causes Award in the Best Arts Project category.
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network has announced the latest winners of its development awards for filmmakers, one of which will go on to receive production funding of £100,000.