RSA New Contemporaries 2025 Award Winners

We are delighted to announce a full list of award winners in this year's RSA New Contemporaries. We would like to extend a huge thank you to our external award givers for their generosity and support.

External Awards

The Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Award

£5,000 for three-month residency including studio space, accommodation and a material allowance of up to £10,000. Exhibition opportunity at Glenfiddich with a work accessioned to the Glenfiddich Collection.

Justine Watt

The Walter Scott Award

£2,000

Amy Odlum

David & June Gordon Memorial Trust Award

£800, split £400 each for an artist living in the Grampian region or having studied at Gray’s School of Art.

Cavan Reed-O’Connor

Kirsty E. MacDonald

Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation Award

£1,500 for a painter, draughtsperson or sculptor.

Mia Gwenllian

Edinburgh Printmakers Residency Award

A printmaking course, 30 sessions (the equivalent of 1-month free studio use), 2 weeks accommodation in EP’s artists apartment and a £100 materials budget, a year’s membership and a studio space.

Hanna Lehtinen

Glasgow Print Studio Award

Membership and unlimited session fees for one year.

Hanna Lehtinen

National Library of Scotland Purchase Prize for Moving Image

Olive Sinclair

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.

Olivia Priya Foster

NHS Lothian Charity Tonic Arts Award

Purchase prize for an artwork/works suitable for an NHS Lothian hospital setting.

Tallulah Batley

Scottish Parliament Art Collection Purchase Award

Purchase prize for artwork to join the Scottish Parliament Art Collection.

Fiona Goss

Outer Spaces Scotland Award

Use of a large-scale studio space for 1+ months, together with a £500 bursary.

Anna Charlotta Gardiner

Mothadaka Foundation Purchase Prize

Purchase prize for work to join the Mothadaka Foundation Art Collection.

Agnes Roberts

Olive Sinclair

Adrienne Murray

VAA Highly Commended Award

Visual Artists Association premium membership plus free access to 1 VAA course of the artist’s choice.

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 two upcoming exhibitions

Calder MacKay

Internal Awards

Sir William Gillies Bequest Award

£2,000

Ishbel Angus

RSA Patrons Award

£1,000

Jillian Lee Adamson

RSA Friends Award

£1000, split £500 each

Francesca Grace Cecelia Cairns

Amy Anna Graham

RSA Art Prize and Maclaine Watters Medal

£400 plus Medal

Olivia Priya Foster

RSA Art Prize

£400

Aimie Harding

RSA Architecture Prize

£400

Jakob Young

RSA New Contemporaries Medal for Architecture

£100 plus Medal

Mari K. Helland

RSA Carnegie Scholarship

£200 for painting

Erin McPhee

RSA Adam Bruce Thomson Award

£150

Jennifer Upson

RSA Landscape Award

£150 for a drawing, oil or watercolour

Lara Juneman

RSA Chalmers Bursary

£150

Shiza Saqib

RSA Stuart Prize

£150

Adrienne Murray

RSA Chalmers-Jervise Prize

£150

Keir Chaggar-Brown

The exhibition and exhibitors have received funding support from RSA Blackadder Houston Bequest.

Now in its sixteenth year, RSA New Contemporaries offers a unique opportunity to see some of the most promising talent in Scotland in one single, large-scale exhibition in the heart of Edinburgh. On view untill Wednesday 16 April 2025.

25 March 2025