Contemporary Arts Trust open to all students at UK Art Colleges; £8000 worth of prizes.
FBA Futures 2019
Showcasing the outstanding art graduates of 2017, selected from across the country
The National Original Print Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery September 2018
The National Original Print Exhibition Contemporary Arts Trust prize 2018 was awarded to Julie Dean for her bold woodcut composition “Port of Liverpool from Salthouse Quay”.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018
In our 250th year, Grayson Perry RA takes the helm to coordinate the world’s longest running and largest open-submission show
London Open at the Whitechapel Gallery 2018
The winner of Contemporary Arts Trust Prize at the Whitechapel Open exhibition is Alexis Teplin for her textile installation which was immediately striking, even before the performance, written by herself, which brought the whole work into a third dimension seamlessly. The costumes and the backdrop blended in an infinite exchange.
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Annual Exhibition Prize Winner 2018 – the Mall Galleries
The Alice Batkin Contemporary Arts Trust Prize for the most promising emerging Portrait Painter was awarded to Shaun McGovern for “Jess and Hayden”.
Bacon to Doig: Modern Masterpieces from a Private Collection at the National Museum Cardiff
One of the UK’s most important private collections of the very best British artists of the twentieth century, including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth and David Hockney.
The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet at The Hunterian Glasgow
A glimpse into the art and culture of early America through the reassembled collection used at Harvard for teaching and research.
The Modern Portrait at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh
Highlights from the Gallery’s outstanding twentieth- and twenty-first-century collection.
A new Era: Scottish Modern Art, 1900–1950 at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh
Scottish artists’ response to the great movements of European modern art.