This year we have over 600 works on display covering a vast array of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, film, sculpture and architecture by artists ranging from leading professionals to emerging talent, from across the UK and beyond.

We are delighted to announce that this year's invited Artist is Rana Begum, RA.

Buy Art from the exhibition 

All works are available for sale in the building or via our online shop. artwork at the RWA - ask at the Welcome Desk. Interest free payments plans are available through our Own Art scheme. 

Prizewinners:

We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to our generous prize donors, prizes valued at over £10,000 has been awarded this year. The RWA is delighted to congratulate the following prize winners:

• The Academy Award, sponsored by the RWA and RWA Academicians | Awarded to an outstanding work in any medium that has particularly appealed to the selectors (not open to RWA Academicians) | Prize: £5000
  
  Winner: Nicola Turner, Klipp Und Klapp
   
  
• The Steele Art Prize, awarded by Tony Steele | Awarded to work reflecting contemporary society, saying things about people or place and what’s going on around us or in the world | Prize: £4000
  
  Winner: Anna Gillespie RWA, The UnWise | Prize: £3000 
  
  Winner: PJ Crook RWA, Sisterhood | Prize: £1000
  
  
  
• Niche Print Makers Award, sponsored by Niche Frames | Awarded to any work using printmaking techniques | Prize: £250 in printing and framing, and £250 cash  
  
  Winner: Martyn Grimmer, Ebb 
  
  Highly Commended: Michaela Wheater, Pelhamia I & II 
  
  Highly Commended: Leonie Bradley, Text Prompt: A General History of Quadrupeds II and II
  
  
  

• Sto Emerging Architecture Prize at the RWA, Sponsored by Sto  | Awarded to an architecture work made by a student or recent graduate (graduated 2020 or after) | Prize: £500 in cash 
  
  Winner: Nathaniel Stevenson, Trefusis Community Centre 
  
  Highly Commended: Ade Olaosebikan, Reconstituted Planes_Villa Savoye 002 
  
  Highly Commended: Michael Paul Lewis, An Architect's Sketchbook 
  
  
  

• The Drawing Prize, sponsored by Fiona Robinson PRWA | Awarded to any drawing | Prize: £300 in cash  
  
  Winner: Lucinda Burgess, Timeline
  
  
  
• The Painting Prize, sponsored by Derek Balmer PPRWA | Awarded to any painting | Prize: £300 and a copy of Derek Balmer: A Singular Vision, by Andrew Lambirth
  
  Winner: Stephen Jacobson RWA, The Last of the Leaves
  
  
  
• The Floating Circle Prize, sponsored by Friends of the RWA | Awarded to a student | Prize: Interview to be featured in Floating Circle magazine, as well as a £250 cash prize 
  
  Winner: Freya Valie Dobson Roberts, Aunty Francisca, Dominica 2007 
  
  Highly Commended: Yoichi Ishida, Untitled (Solstice 2024) 
  
  
  
• St Cuthberts Mill Work on Paper Prize, sponsored by St Cuthberts Paper Mill | Awarded to any work on paper | Prize: 20 sheets of Saunders Waterford 300gsm 56x76cm paper worth over £120 
  
  Winner: Brian Smith, Pigments of the Medina
  

• Watercolour Award 1st Prize, sponsored by Consumer Intelligence. | Awarded to any watercolour painting | Prize: £250 cash 
  
  Winner: Richard Anthony Elliott, Louvre, Staircase 
  
  
• Pangolin Sculpture Prize, sponsored by Pangolin Digital  | Awarded to any sculpture | Prize: A 3D digital scan of your work by Pangolin Digital Ltd.
  
  Winner: Yoshihiro Watanabe, 3 Elephants
  
  
  
• 2 x Cass Art Materials Awards, sponsored by Cass Art | Awarded to: Any artist | Prize: £50 voucher to spend at Cass Art  
  
  Winner: Amanda Wallwork RWA, Will Stones Close - Portland Lost Fields 1857 
  
  Winner: Zoe Williams, Morphosis: Series I 
  
  
  
• Cass Art Solo Show Award, sponsored by Cass Art | Awarded to any artist | Prize: Solo Show in Cass Art, Bristol Park Street store
  
  Winner: Miriam Sheppard, Liminality viii
  
  
  
• Evolver Magazine Cover Award, sponsored by Evolver Magazine | Awarded to any work | Prize: A cover image for the November/December issue of Evolver magazine 
  
  Winner: Gina Soden, Statia Voltaj
  
  
  
• Evolver Magazine Feature Award, sponsored by Evolver Magazine | Awarded to any artist | Prize: A feature article in the November/December issue of Evolver magazine  
  
  Winner: Jemma Gunning RWA, all works
  
  
  

Works for this open were selected by an esteemed panel of judges which included  Freeny Yianni, Dr Chris Stephens and Ann Christopher RA RWA Hon, together with RWA Academicians Fiona Robinson PRWA, Jessa Fairbrother RWA,  Andrew Hardwick RWA, Stephen Hoskins RWA and Hamish Young RWA. 

Image top: Mountain Ridges, Chowwai Cheung

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