Art prizes and awards

Art / 18 Nov 2018

Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans on winning the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture

The winner of the £30,000 biennial Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018 has been named as Cerith Wyn Evans: Welsh conceptual artist, filmmaker and contemporary sculpture’s golden child. There’s no doubt that Wyn Evans has been basking in his element...

Art / 28 Jun 2018

Jameel Prize announces first ever joint winners of the Islamic art and design award

Iraq-born artist Mehdi Moutashar and Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum have been announced as joint winners of the Jameel Prize 5. It is the first time two finalists have been awarded the prize, which is aimed at artists and designers who...

Lifestyle / 8 May 2018

Montblanc’s commitment to international arts runs deep

Luxury brands are entering the crowded world of the art award at a rate of knots, offering intelligent cultural prizes with great intent, thoughtful outreach, and high profiles. Max Mara’s Art Prize for Women is in its seventh edition; the...

Architecture / 26 Apr 2018

Meet Forensic Architecture, the architectural nominees of the 2018 Turner Prize shortlist

A recent, major exhibition at the ICA brought the work of Forensic Architecture to a wider audience; and today’s 2018 Turner Prize shortlist announcement confirmed it – Eyal Weizman and his team are onto something big. From their academic base...

Art / 5 Feb 2018

Meet the David Collins Foundation young art stars of tomorrow

For 25 years, The Arts Foundation has given opportunities to artists, designers, poets and choreographers at the start of their careers. Wayne McGregor, writer Ali Smith, poet Alice Oswald and artist Alex Hartley have all benefited from the annual award, which is known...

Art / 17 Jul 2017

A tribe of Emma Hart’s decapitated ceramic skulls swing into the Whitechapel gallery

Bulbous ceramic jugs hang upside down in the darkened Whitechapel Gallery. Sickly yellow light pours from each, casting cartoonish speech-bubble shaped shadows across the floor and walls. ‘They’re not just jugs – they are decapitated heads, chopped open below the nose...

Art / 7 Jul 2017

The community spirit at Baltic is celebrated with an inaugural Artists Award

There’s a genuine community feeling at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Young artists are nurtured there, and more established ones return to exhibit there time after time. What’s more, the same familiar faces of gallery-goers can be seen on every visit. Perhaps...

Art / 19 May 2017

Looking glass: head to head with Photo London founders Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad

The indefatigable husband and wife team behind Candlestar art and education consultancy, Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad, are particularly busy in the spring. It’s when Photo London, one of their most ambitious projects, launches in the grounds of Somerset House...

Art / 27 Jan 2017

Scottish painter Peter Doig named the 2017 Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon

The Scottish artist Peter Doig, whose disorientating figurative works have garnered global artistic acclaim, has become the fourth recipient of the Whitechapel Gallery’s Art Icon award. Supported by Swarovski, the lifetime achievement award recognises an artist’s notable contribution to their...

Art / 25 Oct 2016

From sewing to scented curtains, the startling breadth of the first Hepworth Sculpture Prize

Visually, the work of the four artists nominated for the first Hepworth Sculpture Prize couldn’t be more different. Under the surface, the eclectic group share a progressive attitude, a desire to interrogate their materials and a penchant for audience interaction...

Art / 21 Oct 2016

Anicka Yi awarded the 2016 Hugo Boss Prize

Hugo Boss chairman and CEO Mark Langer and Guggenheim Museum director Richard Armstrong named artist Anicka Yi as the recipient of the biennial Hugo Boss Prize in New York last night. ’The Hugo Boss Prize marks a highlight in our...

Art / 13 Oct 2016

Coach trip: the Rolex Arts Initiative offers seven creative talents the journey of a lifetime

Every two years since 2002, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative has conducted an experiment in creative fusion, flinging some of the best-known creators in the world together with talented young artists at or near the start of their...