RSA Lens-Based Media Award: Deadline has now passed for 2024

  • About

    Irvine & Spence, Getting okay with not being okay, that things are not okay, film still

    About

    The RSA Lens Based Media Award (£4,000) is open to artists working in lens-based media (including film and photography) in Scotland. The award consists of: 
    • A monetary award of £4,000 to research, develop and produce a new body of work in a lens-based medium
    • Exhibition of selected completed work at the RSA at a future date.
    • The acquisition of work into the prestigious RSA Permanent Collection.
  • Eligibility

    Alicia Bruce, Sim Man, NY Sim, Bellvue Hospital, Manhattan, New York, 2014, archival photographic print [2015.067]

    Eligibility

    • Artists must be working in a lens-based media (includes digital & analogue photography, film and video)
    • Artists must have been born in Scotland, or have studied at a Scottish art school, or have been resident in Scotland for at least 3 years.
    • Undergraduate or postgraduate students are not eligible.

     

    How to apply

    The application deadline has now passed.  

     

    The winners of the 2024 award are Irvine & Spence (Zoë Irvine and Pernille Spence). They plan to use the award funds to create a multi-screen installation that plays with the choreography of image and sound within physicaln space and an artists' film. 
  • Previous Winners

    Daniel Cook, Love Letters From Aberdeenshire - Ricky Babes, 2021, archival pigment print

    Previous Winners

    RSA Lens-based Media Award

    • IRVINE & SPENCE, 2024

     

     

    Listed below are recipients of the RSA Morton Award, our previous award for lens-based media between 2006 and 2023:

     

    • Aqsa Arif, 2023
    • Flannery O'kafka, 2022
    • Oana Stanciu, 2021
    • Sekai Machache, 2020
    • Daniel Cook, 2019
    • John Wallace, 2018
    • Mairi Lafferty, 2017
    • Paul Duke, 2016
    • Gair Dunlop, 2015
    • Alicia Bruce, 2014
    • Oliver Mezger, 2013
    • ROGER + REID, 2012
    • Paul Rooney, 2011
    • Christine Borland, 2010
    • Philip Braham, 2009
    • Rory Donaldson, 2008
    • Leena Nammari, 2007
    • Alexander & Susan Maris, 2006

     

    Banner image: Asqa Arif, Sohni ki Shaadi Sohnis Wedding, 2022, digital photograph

  • Return to Opportunities
  • ROGER + REID, End of Message, 2013, film still [2014.659] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Christine Borland, Cast from Nature, 2011, film still [2019.046] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Paul Duke, No Ruined Stone (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    John Wallace, ROADSPACE, 2019, installation photograph of film projection [2023.0036.1] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Philip Braham, Falling Shadows in Arcadia (The Offering), 2010, inkjet print [2011.020] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Alicia Bruce, Sim Man, NY Sim, Bellvue Hospital, Manhattan, New York, 2014, archival photographic print [2015.067] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Rory Donaldson, SQTIME USA, 2009, digital C-type gloss photograph [2010.034] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Paul Rooney, La Décision Doypack, 2008, film still, 16mm film transfered to DVD. Commissioned by Radar and Matt's Gallery. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    ROGER + REID, End of Message, 2013, film still [2014.659]