RCA announces the winners of the Helen Hamlyn Design Awards for 2024
27 September 2024 • Mark Westall
The annual Helen Hamlyn Design Awards, organised by the Royal College of Art’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD) – have been announced
Tag: Awards and prizes
£10k bursary awarded to disabled artist Jay Price for creating subversive virtual memorial
1 June 2022 • Mark Westall
The Adam Reynolds Award and bursary is designed to support the practice of a mid-career disabled artist. Jay Price’s new project will… Read More
Turner prize 2017: a cosmopolitan rebuff to Brexit provincialism
4 May 2017 • Syndicate
Amid all the rule changes, Lubaina Himid is surely the favourite to win British art’s most important prize this year
‘The cat in the coffin almost steals the show’ … the Deutsche Börse photography prize
3 March 2017 • Syndicate
Landscapes at night, a hallucinatory road trip, ghetto life after the LA riots and a dead pet … our critic weighs the contenders
Helen Marten wins Turner prize, securing second award in a month
6 December 2016 • Mark Westall
Chair of judges praises 31-year-old artist, who recently won Hepworth prize, for baffling sculptural work which ‘reflects the condition of the world’
Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist: drones v the women of Tahrir
5 November 2015 • Mark Westall
The murky state of global surveillance and a moving account of the Arab spring, plus refugee activists and a pulled-apart Fiat 500, make up a surprising list
REVIEW: Deutsche Börse 2015 – shadowy burqas v epic towerblocks
19 April 2015 • Staff
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse spent six years photographing every door and window of a 54-storey tower in Johannesburg, while Viviane Sassen proves herself a sculptor of light. Set beside heartbreaking portraits of LGBTI South Africans and Russians letting loose on the beach, this year’s shortlist is full of intrigue
Albanian Artsis Anri Sala wins Vincent award for contemporary art
24 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Installation artist beats four nominees including British Turner prize winner Gillian Wearing
Louise Hearman wins 2014 Moran prize, Australia’s richest portrait award
29 October 2014 • Mark Westall
Painter’s portrait of photographer Bill Henson takes $150,000 Moran prize, which attracted more entries than the Archibald
Andrea Gjestvang wins L’Iris d’Or at Sony world photography awards
27 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Norwegian photographer, 32, holds off competition with poignant portraits of Anders Behring Breivik massacre survivors
Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers
18 April 2013 • Mark Westall
The Deutsche Börse Photography prize show draws on Google, space travel and Bertolt Brecht – but one artist stands head and shoulders above the rest
Turner prize winner Elizabeth Price warns against marginalisation of arts
5 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Price criticises introduction of Ebacc and withdrawal of state funding for humanities and arts at universities
The Turner prize has regained its style and importance
3 December 2012 • Mark Westall
This year’s nominees provide a powerful dose of what the avant garde is up to in 2012. If there’s any justice then Luke Fowler or Elizabeth Price will win
Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet?
2 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Immerse yourself in Spartacus Chetwynd’s daft performances, Paul Noble’s filthy drawings, Elizabeth Price’s terrifying video and Luke Fowler’s film about schizophrenia
Deutsche Börse photography prize won by John Stezaker
4 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Collagist who cuts up other people’s pictures in the name of his art wins prestigious £30,000 award
Read all about it: how Gilbert & George stole the headlines and made art
8 March 2012 • Mark Westall
Urbane artistic pair pilfered 3,712 newspaper bills from outside London shops to create works now on show at White Cube galleries
Gary Hume: the half-an-hour-a-day man
18 January 2012 • Mark Westall
It’s going to be a big year for Gary Hume. Not bad going for an artist whose creative bursts don’t last long.
Turner prize: the beauty lies in its orchestration
6 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Martin Boyce deserves the award for a beautiful and unexpected installation – his art is a sort of elegy to modernist purity
Lygia Pape, Scottish photography and the Northern Art prize – the week in art
2 December 2011 • Mark Westall
From a Serpentine celebration of the late Brazilian artist to the reopening of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, here’s your latest Art Weekly dispatch