THREADNEEDLE FIGURATIVE PRIZE

About the Prize

The Threadneedle Prize showcases the best new figurative and representational art in Britain today. Its purpose is to encourage artists with real commitment and vision to submit paintings and sculptures created especially for the competition. There is over £40,000 to be won.

Three selectors - Xavier Bray (Assistant Curator at the National Gallery), David Rayson (Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art) and Michael Sandle RA (Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors) - will curate an exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London in September 2010 drawing on work submitted through the open competition.

Artists of all nationalities aged 18 or over, living or working in the UK, are encouraged to submit up to three new works created since 1 January 2009.

Experience or age will not be a benchmark for selection.

Selectors Award the 2010 Threadneedle Prize

This year our three selectors will decide the winner of the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize from a shortlist of seven works submitted through the open submission. The prizewinner will be announced on the evening of 15 September.  Each of the six runners up will receive £1,000.  This year a new prize, the £10,000 Visitors' Choice, will be awarded by visitors attending the exhibition.

It is possible for the same artist to win both the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize and the £10,000 Visitors' Choice, making this event one of the most valuable competitions for a single work of art in Britain today. Â

2010 Receiving & Collection

This year the organisers have made special arrangements for Receiving and Collection at Warehouse 7, 3 Mills Studio, Three Mill Lane, London E3 3DU. The venue benefits from excellent transport links and ample parking. See further details and full location information.