Sorry, submissions for our 2025 Annual Exhibition have now closed, but you may be interested in the NEAC Scholarships opportunity.
The NEAC Annual Exhibition is a showcase not only for its members but also for aspiring artists: with a history going back more than a hundred years, it is an opportunity for work to be seen alongside some of the best artists today.
The exhibition offers several prizes and awards, worth over £10,000, including the new NEAC Climate Emergency Prize.
Prizes & Awards
There are many prizes and awards to be won, including:
- NEW The NEAC Climate Emergency Prize: An award of £2,000 for an artwork that addresses the climate crisis and a prize of £500 for a runner up. For more information about the prize, see the official announcement.
- The Doreen McIntosh Prize: For an artist whose work fulfils the New English Art Club’s ideals of rigour, immediate engagement with the visual and a searching attitude. Value £2,000
- The Hermione Hammond Drawing Award: £2,000 for a drawing by an emerging artist aged 35 or under
- The Ken and Dora Howard Prize: £1,000 for a painting that best captures a sense of light
- The Val Harris Prize: Two week residency in The Atelier in Hay-on-Wye followed by a one week exhibition at The Chair, the art gallery owned by Val Harris, for a non-member
- The Bowyer Drawing Prize: Selected by the Bowyer family, £500
- The Michael Harding Award: £500 worth of art materials
- The Milner Prize for an Emerging Artist: £500
- The Winsor & Newton Award: Art materials to the value of £500
- The NEAC Critics' Prize: £250
- Mall Galleries / FBA Award: Ten free submissions to exhibitions by the Federation of British Artists at Mall Galleries (worth up to £200) for a first time exhibitor with the New English Art Club
- The Anthony J. Lester Art Critic Award: A certificate and cheque for £100
- The Dry Red Press Award: The winning work will be published as a greetings card in the Dry Red Press 'Prize Winners' range, with royalties from the sale of the cards going to the artist
Subject to final confirmation
- You may also be interested in the NEAC Scholarships opportunity.
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NEAC Annual Exhibition
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