The Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize 2025

APPLICATIONS OPEN ON 1ST JANUARY 2025.

Awarded for the best visual arts response on the theme, which will be announced soon.

Prizes:

The winner and runners-up will receive cash prizes and will be invited to attend our annual symposium. We will offer up to £500 travel expenses to help with travel to the event and meals and accommodation during the symposium dates are also covered.

First place: £3,000

Second place: £1,000

Third place: £1,000

Rules:

Open to all nationalities.
Applicants must be aged 18 or above at the time of entry.
All entries must be written in English.
If your work is from a larger collection, please choose the single image that best displays the potential of your collection. Entries who submit more than one image may be disqualified at the judge’s discretion.
All media are permitted, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation, stating media, date, and, where relevant, size. Videos should be no more than 8 minutes long.
Applications generated by programmes or services that utilse AI or generative software in their entirity are not eligible to enter this prize. If a work uses AI or generative software in part this must be disclosed in the description of artwork in advance of judging.
Travel expenses can be used for economy travel costs only and are not exchangeable for cash, any leftover travel budget will not be redeemed as cash.
Travel expenses can be used for transport only, and can not be used towards accommodation outside of the dates of our symposium.
Submissions will be judged anonymously, so please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere on your work.
Due to the volume of applications, the judge’s decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into following the results.

Key dates:

Applications open: 1st January 2025
Applications close: 1st March 2025 at 23:59 (UK time)

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*Please note: we reserve the right to change any aspect of our prizes at any point during the submission or judging process, or to not award a prize if we choose.

Judges

Sue Grayson Ford - MBE has enjoyed a 40 year career in arts administration since founding and directing the Serpentine Gallery as a platform for emerging artists. Later, she expanded the programme with exhibitions of international artists such as Giacometti, Saul Steinberg, De Kooning and Henry Moore. She has been Sculpture Director for the Liverpool International Garden Festival, Exhibitions Director at Manchester’s Cornerhouse, Director of Wakefield’s Centenary Festival and of London’s Photographers’ Gallery. Sue initiated the Campaign for Drawing, and ensured that it’s flagship, The Big Draw, grew into an international phenomenon with over 1000 events annually across the UK and 20 other countries.

Julian Spalding - was a director of art galleries for Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow. He established the Ruskin Gallery, the St Mungo Museum of Religious Art and Life, the Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow and the Campaign for Drawing. His many books include The Poetic Museum, The Eclipse of Art, The Art of Wonder (winner of the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize 2006), Con Art, The Best Art You've Never Seen, Realisation and, with Raymond Tallis, Summers of Discontent.

Previous winners

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2024 - On Language

Ella Krispel

Ella Krispel is a graphic designer and visual artist. Her recent work, "Imagined Immigration," is a collection of paper-woven tapestries illustrating the media's influence on public perceptions of immigration in the UK, based on academic research. By giving new form to existing information, she visualizes the formation of common assumptions held by the British public and the tension between these perceptions and reality. She is currently working on new pieces commissioned by The Migration Museum London and giving lectures titled "Art as Intervention," explaining the power of art and design to communicate complex ideas and amplify voices from often unheard communities.

https://www.ellakrispel.co.uk/