Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award 2023/24

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:

• A bursary of £18,000 over the nine-month residency period (£2,000 per month) between 1 October 2023 and 30 June 2024
• The use of a studio at Banks Mill, Derby, for the duration of the residency and until 30 September 2024
• A solo, selling exhibition at Derby Museum & Art Gallery, including exhibition catalogue
• A smaller show at Mall Galleries, London, thereafter
• Expenses up to £3,000 towards materials, transport, and other production and exhibition-related costs
• The opportunity to work on an outreach project during the residency
• Professional development/teaching opportunities, support and mentoring within the University of Derby's BA (Hons) Fine Art programme