170 Annual Open Exhibition Prize Winners
The RWA wishes huge congratulations to all of this year’s Annual Open Exhibition Prize Winners.
Not only were these artworks selected from over 4,000 entries in order to be hung in the show, but they have also been singled out by our sponsors for their particular excellence. What an honour!
In no particular order, here are this year’s winners…
(click on each image to find the work on our website)
Jemma Appleby, for all exhibited artworks – Winner of The Academy Prize, and £5000
Daphne Gradidge, for Green Horizon– Winner of The Other Art Prize and £2000
Tessa Maiden, for Survey Series No5 – also a winner of The Other Art Prize and £1000
Dail Behennah, for Shift – also a winner of The Other Art Prize and £1000
Julia Hutton, for Golden Hour IV – Winner of the Watercolour Prize 1st place and £250, sponsored by Consumer Intelligence
Robert Mckenzie, for Voyagers – Winner of the Watercolour Prize 2nd place and £150, sponsored by Consumer Intelligence
Ruth White, for Remains – Winner of the Cass Art Materials Award and £100 voucher to spend at Cass Art
Rachel Dittrich, for The Dreamers – Winner of the Cass Art Solo Show Award and a Solo Show in the Park Street, Bristol Store
Hammer Chen, for Passing – Winner of the Creativity Award and £250 in printing and framing, and £250 cash, sponsored by Niche Frames
Christopher Binding, for both Conversation 2 and Conversation 5 – Winner of St Cuthberts Mill Work on Paper Prize and 20 sheets of Saunders Waterford 300gsm 56x76cm paper worth over £120
Martin Bentham, for Wasps Nest – Winner of the Derek Balmer Painting Prize, £300 and a copy of Derek Balmer: A Singular Vision, by Andrew Lambirth
Judith Jones, for Tree Portrait Series -Aesculus X Carnea – Winner of the MPB Award a £500 MPB voucher to spend on used photography and videography equipment on the MPB website
Helen Cass, for Mapping drawing 27 – Winner of The Drawing Prize and £300, sponsored by Fiona Robinson PRWA
Sam Dowling, for Juxtaposition of Man-Made and Organic Decay – Winner of the Floating Circle Student Prize, £250 and a feature in the Floating Circle magazine. Sponsored by the Friends of the RWA
Henny Burnett, for Mycelium House – Winner of the Evolver Cover Award. This artwork will feature as the cover image of the November/December issue of Evolver magazine
Patricia Volk, for all exhibited artworks – Winner of the Evolver Feature Award. This artist will feature in their own article in the November/December issue of Evolver magazine
Graeme Wilcox, for Sleepwalker – Winner of the Houghton Art Prize and £500
We want to say a HUGE thank you to all of the people, organisations and businesses that sponsored one or more of our prizes this year. Your support has helped to make the 170 Annual Open Exhibition truly special.
