RSA New Contemporaries 2025

 

Alana Ashby, Lewis Cavinue, Ewan Douglas, Aimie Harding, Fern Lovande, Calder Mackay, Madeleine Marg, Jen Meldrum, Amy Odlum, Rowan Roscher, Olivia Sinclair, R L Taylor

              

Jillian Lee Adamson, Ahed Alameri, Tallulah Batley, Robin Bigret, Amanda Cathy Bullock, Will Dutton, Niamh Finnigan, Fiona Goss, Hanna Lehtinen, Adam Lock, Ellis Ludlow, Agnes Roberts, Shiza Saqib, Christian Sloan, Justine Watt, Kitty Yarrow

 

Ishbel Angus, Felix Bode, Francesca Grace Cecelia Cairns, Joe Cameron, Matthew Casey, Keir Chaggar-Brown, Double Pivot, Olivia Priya Foster, Amy Anna Graham, Eva Griffin, Mia Gwenllian, Lara Juneman, Jasmína Lustigová, Theodora Koumbouzis Maclellan, Liv Mather, Erin McPhee, Esther Metcalfe, Lola Pilkington, Coire Simpson, Connie Woods

              

Charlotte Forsyth, Kirsty Elaine MacDonald, Bronwyn Mackenzie, Ben McGinlay, Adrienne Murray, Cavan Reed-O'Connor, Bethany Reid, Lotta Wald 

 

Anna Charlotta Gardiner, Jennifer Upson

 

Brendan Kerrisk

 

Mari Kristine Helland

 

Emily Morgan

 

Laura Sutherland

 

Jakob Young

 

With over £25,000 worth of monetary, residency, studio and purchase prizes, the development of this exhibition is an important initiative for emerging artists in Scotland. We are grateful to all our external award givers who support this commitment to emerging artists, in particular to William Grant & Sons for the £15,000 Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Award.

 

• The Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Award (£15,000 residency plus exhibition, work accessioned to Glenfiddich Collection)
• The Walter Scott Award (£2,000)
• RSA Sir William Gillies Bequest Award (£2,000)
• RSA Patrons Award (£1,000)
• RSA Friends Award (£1,000)
• RSA Art Prize (£400 plus the Maclaine Watters medal)
• RSA Art Prize (£400)
• RSA Architecture Prize (£400)
• RSA New Contemporaries Medal for Architecture (£100 plus medal)
• RSA Carnegie Scholarship (£200)
• RSA Adam Bruce Thomson Award (£150)
• RSA Landscape Award (£150)
• RSA Chalmers Bursary (£150)
• RSA Stuart Prize (£150)
• RSA Chalmers-Jervise Prize (£150)
• David and June Gordon Memorial Trust (£750 for exhibitors who studied at Gray’s School of Art, or whose home address is in the Grampian Region.)
• Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation Award (£1,500 for a painter, draughtsperson or sculptor)
• Arusha Gallery Award (£1,000)
• Edinburgh Printmakers Graduate Residency Award (One-month free studio use, a printmaking course, accommodation, £100 materials budget and one year's membership.)
• Glasgow Print Studio Award (Membership and unlimited session fees for one year.)
• National Library of Scotland Purchase Prize (£1,500 purchase prize for moving image.)
• The Skinny Prize (A two-page presentation of the artist's work in the print publication and shared online, an interview feature with the artist, timed to best coincide with promotion of future projects)
• Outer Spaces Scotland Award (Two artist awards of large-scale studio spaces for 1+ months, together with a £500 bursary.) *
• VAA New Artist Award (Visual Artists Association Premium membership, 1 year of mentorship and PR opportunities, access to a series of online short courses, an invitation to show work in upcoming exhibitions.) *
• VAA Highly Commended Awards (6 winners receive Visual Artists Association Premium membership plus access to a VAA course of their choice.) *
• Mothadaka Foundation Purchase Prize (Purchase prize for work to join the Mothadaka Foundation Art Collection.) *

 

* new for 2025