Threadneedle Prize
The Columbia Threadneedle Prize: Figurative Art Today, formerly The Threadneedle Prize, is a major art prize, which showcases contemporary figurative art. It was launched by the Mall Galleries in 2008.[1] The prize is open to any artist, eighteen or over, who is living or working in the UK or Continental Europe.
About the Prize
The Columbia Threadneedle Prize champions figurative art today. It is one of the most valuable open art competitions in Europe, offering a first prize of £20,000, plus the opportunity to exhibit a wider body of work at a solo exhibition at Mall Galleries in the succeeding year.
The Visitors’ Choice Award is £10,000 and is awarded by visitors to the exhibition.
In 2016, in a first for the competition, the £20,000 winner - Salt in Tea by Lewis Hazelwood-Horner - was also named the winner of the £10,000 Visitors' Choice Award.
Following the 2016 exhibition at Mall Galleries, London, selected works from the Prize toured to Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy.
Prize winners
- 2016
Winner - Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, Salt in Tea[2]
- Visitors' Choice - Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, Salt in Tea
- 2014
Winner - Tina Jenkins, Bed Head[3]
Visitors' Choice - Ben Johnson, Room of the Revolutionary
- 2013
Joint winner - Clare McCormack, Dead Labour/Dead Labourer [4]
Joint winner - Lisa Wright, The Guilty's Gaze on the Innocent [4]
Visitors' Choice - Conrad Engelhardt, Aung San Suu Kyi [5]
- 2012
Winner - Ben Greener, My Feet [6]
Visitors' Choice - Robert Truscott, Defeat [6]
- 2011
Winner - Henrietta Simson, Bad Government [7]
Visitors' Choice - Nicholas McLeod, Drained [7]
- 2010
Winner - Patricia Cain, Building the Riverside Museum [8]
Visitors' Choice - Fionnuala Boyd and Les Evans, Clee Hill 2009 [8]
- 2009
Winner - Sheila Wallis [9]
Emerging Artist Prize - Aishan Yu [10]
- 2008
Winner - Nina Murdoch, Untitled [11]
Selectors Choice - Tim Shaw, Tank on Fire [11]
Selectors
2016
Emma Crichton-Miller
David Dawson
Dr Arturo Galansino
Dr Tim Knox
2014
John Martin
Kevin Francis Gray
Nancy Durrant
Whitney Hintz
2013
Tim Shaw
Barnaby Wright
Paul Benney
Laura Gascoigne
2012
Nicholas Usherwood
Peter Randall-Page
Christopher Riopelle
2011
Julie Lomax
Lisa Milroy
Godfrey Worsdale
2010
Dr Xavier Bray
David Rayson
Michael Sandle RA
2009
Jock McFadyen
Cathy Lomax
Michael Leonard
Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Daphne Todd OBE
Nine Murdoch
2008
Richard Cork
Angela Flowers
Hew Locke
William Packer
Brian Sewell
References
- ^ Wullschlager, Jackie (4 September 2009). "The Threadneedle award at the Mall Galleries". Financial Times. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
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- ^ "The Threadneedle Prize". Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ a b Lloyd, Kate (25 September 2013). "Mall Galleries host Threadneedle Prize 2013". Country Life. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
- ^ "2013 Threadneedle Prize Artworks". Retrieved 2014-01-17.
- ^ a b "Threadneedle Prize: Foot sculpture wins £30,000 prize". BBC News. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
- ^ a b 2011, ThreadneedlePrize.com (archive). Retrieved 2013-10-16.
- ^ a b Brown, Mark (16 September 2010). "Threadneedle prize awarded for Clyde shipyard piece". The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "Seven artists vie for £25,000 Threadneedle Prize". BBC News. 23 July 2010. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
- ^ "Sheila Wallis Wins the 25,000 Pound Threadneedle Prize". Art Daily. 19 September 2009. Retrieved 2013-10-29.
- ^ a b 2008, ThreadneedlePrize.com (archive). Retrieved 2013-10-16.