Other funding and prizes

Artes Mundi

The Artes Mundi Prize is a new, international visual arts prize, established to celebrate visual culture from across the globe. Based in Wales, the very first Artes Mundi Prize was awarded in March 2004, launching the event as a biennial opportunity for artists. 

Arts & Humanities Research Board (AHRB)

The AHRB’s activities are grouped into three programme areas:

Innovation Awards
Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts
Small Grants in the Creative and Performing

Beck's Future's Awards

Beck's Futures is open to artists working in any media based in the UK, regardless of nationality. This art prize highlights the work of a new generation of British artists and reflects a growing interest in British contemporary art.

The Bombay Sapphire Prize

International Glass Design Award open to architects, designers and artists. Submitted entries must use glass as an integral part of the design and must have been built, created or manufactured within the last two years.

BP Portrait Award

With a first prize of £25,000, the annual BP Portrait Award is a leading showcase for young painters specialising in the field of portraiture.

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is responsible for grant aid in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The UK branch supports funding programmes in the arts, social welfare and education and Anglo-Portuguese cultural relations.

City of Westminster Arts Council Arts Funding

Westminster City Council offers three types of grant aid to arts organisations.
1) Revenue / Contract Funding
2) Sponsorship and Self Help Fund
3) Educational and Arts Project Fund

The Hunting Art Prizes

The Hunting Art Prizes is an 'open' competition, welcoming entries that range from traditional figurative to modern abstract. As a result it attracts a wide range of entries, including leading established artists, promising newcomers and talented amateurs. It has proved particularly important as a vehicle for up and coming artistic talent to achieve recognition and past prizewinners have gone on to enjoy significant success.

Hugo Boss

Their partnership with the arts and the art world began more than seven years ago. Since then, there have been numerous notable exhibitions and, in conjunction with the Guggenheim Foundation, the Hugo Boss Prize has been established, which has evolved into an internationally renowned art award. Projects bearing a particular relevance to the company - featuring contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons, Dennis Hopper and Frank O. Gehry - add breadth and depth to the arts program, and infuse the Hugo Boss brands with aesthetic values.

The Jerwood Foundation

The Jerwood Photography Awards is annual award is open to UK-based artists working with the medium of photography who have graduated from visual art degree courses in the UK between January 2001 and September 2004. There is no age limit. Five winners will each receive an award of £2,000, an exhibition at The Jerwood Space in London, and publication in Portfolio Magazine.

The Leverhulme Trust

The Trust, established at the wish of William Hesketh Lever, the first Viscount Leverhulme, makes awards for the support of research and education. The Trust emphasises individuals and encompasses all subject areas.

Pollock Krasner Foundation

The Pollock Krasner Foundation offers financial support through 'demonstrable need' for painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers (not commercial artists, photographers, video artists, performance artists, filmmakers or crafts-makers). Grants are to assist individuals who have worked as artists over a significant period of time and who have recognisable artistic merit. Grants are not available to students or to fund academic study. The size and length of the grant is determined by individual circumstances but ranges from US $1,000 - $30,000.

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has a variety of funding programmes. It’s primary concern is to address issues of inequality and disadvantage, particularly in relation to young people and though the arts, learning and education.

SCIART

sciart seeks to support arts projects informed by biomedical science. sciart forms part of the Wellcome Trust's Engaging Science grants programme and is an amalgamation of two previous funding schemes: Science on Stage and Screen and the consortium-funded sciart scheme. They award grants to further support and encourage innovative arts projects investigating biomedical science and its social contexts.

The Turner Prize

The Turner Prize is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the past twelve months. It was established in 1984 by Tate’s Patrons of New Art and is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art.