The following Prizes and Awards were awarded at a ceremony on Wednesday 12 June at our 2024 Annual Exhibition. Congratulations to all the winners!
The Ken & Dora Howard Prize
£1,000 for a painting that best captures a sense of light
TOM'S CHINESE VASE by Mary JacksoN NEAC RWS
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 £3,000.
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, OXFORD by T.F. AshleY
The Hermione Hammond Drawing Award
£2,000 for a drawing by an emerging artist aged 35 or under
B66 by Rizza Zahid
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 Gentleman's Art Club by Charlotte Houlihan
The Bowyer Drawing Prize
Selected by the Bowyer family, £500
MY SON by Manny Woodard
The Michael Harding Award
£500 worth of art materials
GREY VENICE by Neale Worley NEAC RP
The Milner Prize for an Emerging Artist (£500)
GRANBY TERRACE, HEADINGLEY, LEEDS by Jonathan Hooper
The Winsor & Newton Award
Art materials to the value of £500
SMALL ESTATE by Andrew Torr
The NEAC Critics' Prize (£250) AND THE ANTHONY J. LESTER ART CRITIC AWARD (£100)
Furrow by Zahra Akbari Baseri
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
Still Life and Prospect Cottage, Dungeness by Ronald Hellen
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.
CURZON STREET by Lauren ProsseR
And last, but by no means least, we are delighted to announce the recipients of the NEAC Artist Scholarships for 2024-25 (Sponsored by Sir David and Lady Clementi).
THE £5,000 NEAC SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE GOES TO CHARLOTTE HOULIHAN.
and
THE 2 X £250 SCHOLARSHIP PRIZES GO TO THEO DUNFORD & RIZZA ZAHID.
Congratulations to all three new NEAC Scholars who, over the coming year, will benefit from mentorship from NEAC members and free entry to all classes and workshops run by the NEAC Education Programme.
Work created during their Scholarship years will be showcased in the NEAC Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries in 2025.
