The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award is one of the country’s largest art prizes for an emerging artist.
The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award brings a rising artist to Derbyshire for nine months to create and exhibit a body of work in response to the landscape, heritage and people of the county on the theme ‘A Sense of Place’. Within this theme, the artist is free to pursue their own research and to develop their own artistic practice.
Over the course of the nine-month residency in Derbyshire, the selected artist will produce a new body of work for public exhibition at Derby Museum & Art Gallery and Mall Galleries in London.
In order to do so, the successful artist will receive:
