THE THREADNEEDLE PRIZE

Last year's winning entry by Patricia Cain

Registration is now open for this year's Threadneedle Prize for representational art. 

The £25,000 Prize showcases paintings and sculptures that promote the practice of representational art but at the same time, challenge its "language and assumptions".

Both experienced and emerging artists are invited to submit work that is strong and topical in its observations on the world. There is over £40,000 of prize money to be won which makes this one of the largest prizes in the UK.

All the work selected for the exhibition in September - approximately 65 pieces - will be sourced through the open competition.  The winner of the £25,000 will be chosen by a panel of selectors from a shortlist of seven works and each of the six runners up will receive £1,000.  All works in the exhibition will also be eligible to win the £10,000 Visitors’ Choice prize.

Work in a variety of media - paintings, sculptures, original prints and drawings, mixed media constructions, reliefs and other figurative installations - will be accepted and each artist can submit up to three works.  Photography and video is only acceptable within other mixed media installations.
For full details, see The Threadneedle Prize website.