The worldwide artwork competitors returns for the twelfth 12 months to seek out the very best in rising and established artwork. Artists working in any two-dimensional approach are invited to enter, and stand the prospect of profitable a First Prize of £6,000 plus £2,000 in artwork supplies, or considered one of 30 different awards.
Enter now for simply £5 with our Early Chicken provide for the prospect to exhibit in central London and showcase your work to our distinctive Visitor Judging Panel. Learn on for extra particulars on this 12 months’s competitors, and bookmark this web page for future reference.
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Awards and Prizes
There are 31 awards to be received, together with First Prize, 5 Jackson’s Alternative Awards, eight Materials Awards and Runners Up, the Scholar and Novice Awards, the Individuals’s Alternative Award, and 6 Decide’s Alternative Awards chosen by our Visitor Judging Panel
First Prize
- £6,000
- £2,000 Jackson’s artwork supplies
- A filmed interview in your studio
- An invite to take a seat on the Visitor Judging Panel for 2028
- Exhibited at Bankside Gallery
Visitor Decide’s Alternative Awards (x 6)
- £1,000 Jackson’s artwork supplies
- Invited to exhibit at Bankside Gallery
Jackson’s Alternative Awards (x 5)
- £1,000 Jackson’s artwork supplies
- Invited to exhibit at Bankside Gallery
Individuals’s Alternative Award
- £1,000 Jackson’s artwork supplies
- Invited to exhibit at Bankside Gallery
Scholar Award and Novice Award
- £500 Jackson’s artwork supplies
- Invited to exhibit at Bankside Gallery
Materials Awards
Oil Award, supported by Michael Harding
Winner: £1,000 in supplies | Runner Up: £500 in supplies
Acrylic Award, supported by Golden
Winner: £1,000 in supplies | Runner Up: £500 in supplies
Watercolour Award, supported by Schmincke
Winner: £1,000 in supplies | Runner Up: £500 in supplies
Drawing Award, supported by Faber-Castell
Winner: £750 in supplies | Runner Up: £250 in supplies
Pastel Award, supported by Sennelier
Winner: £750 in supplies | Runner Up: £250 in supplies
Intaglio Print Award, supported by Charbonnel
Winner: £750 in supplies | Runner Up: £250 in supplies
Aid Print Award, supported by Cranfield
Winner: £750 in supplies | Runner Up: £250 in supplies
Planographic Print Award, supported by Speedball
Winner: £750 in supplies | Runner Up: £250 in supplies
Dates and Deadlines
Submissions open: 10 November 2026
Submissions shut: 10 February 2027
Inexpensive Artwork Truthful: 5 – 9 Could 2026
Bankside Gallery: 29 June – 4 July 2027
Entry Charges
Our mission is to assist artists by creating alternatives, celebrating their work, and fostering a thriving artistic neighborhood. Jackson’s Artwork Prize operates with out revenue. Each entry payment goes immediately towards masking operating prices, the prize fund, and exhibitions.
Visitor Judging Panel
Jim Moir: Artist and broadcaster
Jennifer Higgie: Author and critic, former editor of Frieze journal
Georgia Spray: Curator and founding father of Partnership Editions
Will Jarvis: Impartial curator, founding father of Gertrude
Angela Lizon: Artist, winner of Jackson’s Artwork Prize 2026
TBC:
Keep tuned for the choose’s interviews coming quickly.
Exhibitions
We stay up for exhibiting a collection of shortlisted works on the Inexpensive Artwork Truthful on Hampstead Heath for the eighth 12 months.
Following that, we are going to exhibit a bigger collection of the shortlist at Bankside Gallery in central London for the fifth 12 months.
FAQs
What can I enter?
We settle for:
- Open to artists working in any two-dimensional approach e.g. portray, drawing, and printmaking
- Artists based mostly within the UK or internationally
- Novice, rising, and established artists
- Any theme or subject material
We don’t settle for:
- Three-dimensional/sculptural work
- Digital, laptop manipulated, or AI artwork
- Pure pictures
- Art work of an inappropriate or offensive subject material
- Digital prints e.g. giclée
What number of artworks can I enter?
You might submit between 1 and 5 artworks. There are a number of benefits to getting into a couple of: it provides the judges a fuller sense of your creative type and recurring themes, it will increase your probabilities that one piece will resonate with the judges, and it’s less expensive – your fifth entry is free!
Can I save the entry kind and are available again to it one other time?
Sure, after you have signed in and began your entry, you’ll be able to navigate to the underside of the web page and click on ‘Save and shut.’ To renew your entry, register to Award Drive and click on ‘Enter’ on the prime of the web page. Your drafted and submitted entries might be listed beneath ‘My Entries’.
Discover out extra about Jackson’s Artwork Prize 2027 in our FAQs
Sources
A Step-by-Step Information to Submitting Your Art work to Jackson’s Artwork Prize 2027
Learn how to {Photograph} Your Art work
Learn how to Write an Artist Biography, Assertion, and Art work Description
Learn and watch interviews with previous award winners from Jackson’s Artwork Prize.
