THREADNEEDLE FIGURATIVE PRIZE

The Threadneedle Prize Returns in 2009

"Fast becoming real art's equivalent of the Turner Prize"
The Times, May 2009

"Rival to the Turner Prize... full of constant surprises"
BBC Radio4, Front Row

"This new prize is capable of achieving a greater good than any other"
Brian Sewell, Evening Standard

Artists selected by Artists

The £25,000 Threadneedle Prize - one of the most important and valuable prizes awarded in the UK for a contemporary painting or sculpture - takes place at the Mall Galleries, London in September 2009.

This year our selection panel comprises five invited artists plus one guest selector. Prize money totals £36,000.

• About 60 works will be chosen for the exhibition held at the Mall Galleries, London in September 2009.
• Seven works will be shortlisted by our panel of selectors to win the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize, awarded by a public vote.
• Each of the seven finalists will receive at least £1,000.
• The selectors will award a NEW £5,000 Emerging Artist Prize to the best work submitted by an artist aged 18 - 28.
• Selectors include artists Michael Leonard, Cathy Lomax, Jock McFadyen, last year's winner Nina Murdoch and Daphne Todd. Our guest selector is Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures.