7th – 11th May 2025
Returning for the sixth year, we’re partnering with the Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, to showcase a selection of shortlisted and prize-winning works. Get tickets here.
24th – 29th June 2025
We’re looking forward to the third annual exhibition of shortlisted and prize-winning works at Bankside Gallery in central London. Taking place over the last week of June, see 60 of this year’s finalists in person for free.
This year, Jackson’s Art Prize received 12,964 submissions from 129 countries around the world. 932 made it to the longlist, and 115 went on to the shortlist. From these, 23 artworks were awarded prizes including this year’s First Prize winner, Eleanor Johnson. View the prize-winners below.
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Oil on canvas, 150 x 225 cm | 19.7 x 88.5 in
“Eleanor Johnson’s Slick with Olive Oil is a richly wrought painting on a grand scale. The complex, circular interaction of grappling wrestlers and dancers punctuated with hyacinth grape flowers is confidently expressed with skillfully handled oils that are as juicy and glistening as the title suggests.
This dizzying composition borrows from Peter Paul Rubens’ fleshy Baroque excesses to present a labyrinthine whirl of tumbling bodies, in a theatrical approach that explores themes such as aggression, sexuality, and play, and was the clear choice for this year’s overall winner.” Jackson’s Judging Panel
Oil on canvas, 90 x 60 cm | 35.4 x 23.6 in
“The public have chosen Chloe Cox’s heartfelt painting, What’s Mine is Yours, to win the People’s Choice Award. This sensitive painting is titled to reflect the kindness this couple showed to over 200 children they fostered before their retirement last year. Exquisitely rendered, with a saint-like composition, Chloe effectively captures the essence of the couple’s nurturing spirit.” Jackson’s Judging Panel
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 x 100 cm | 59 x 39.3 in
“Daisy Fulton’s semi-abstract in oil and acrylic uses a painted framing device that gives movement, depth, and unexpected shape to its playful composition. Can We Not Do It Right Now suggests a still life or interior space through an interplay of blocks of colour and looser passages of paint that hold the eye.” Jackson’s Judging Panel
Water mixable oil paint and monoprint on paper, 17.5 x 24.5 cm | 6.9 x 9.6 in
“Natasha Motaghi’s monotype, Waters of August, effortlessly evokes an airy summer scene saturated with sunlight through subtle, harmonious colours and the natural textures of this medium. Beautifully composed, the spare use of form makes this print feel as though it fell magically onto the paper.” Jackson’s Judging Panel
Congratulations to the following artists, who have each received £1,000 worth of fine art materials from Jackson’s Art Supplies.
The winners of the Guest Judge’s Choice Awards were selected by the Guest Judging Panel for 2025: Anne Rothenstein, Péjú Oshin, Hugo Barclay, Anita Klein, Andrew Torr, and Joshua Donkor.
Congratulations to the following artists, who have each received up to £1,500 worth of fine art materials from this year’s Award Sponsors. We would like to thank Michael Harding, Royal Talens, Schmincke, Faber-Castell, Sennelier, Cranfield, Speedball, and Lawrence for sponsoring the Material Awards.
This year’s Guest Judging Panel is made up of exciting names in contemporary painting, printmaking, and curation: Anne Rothenstein, Péjú Oshin, Hugo Barclay, Anita Klein, Andrew Torr, and Joshua Donkor.
Each Guest Judge will choose the winner of their own Judge’s Choice Award from the longlist.
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Artist represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery
https://annerothenstein.co.ukAnne Rothenstein grew up in a family of artists reaching back two generations. She spent her early childhood in the Essex village of Great Bardfield which was virtually an artists community. For some time Rothenstein tried hard not to become an artist and after doing only one year at Camberwell Art School in the 1960’s left to explore other avenues. She spent the next ten years earning her living as an actress but, dissatisfied, gradually returned to painting.
She had her first solo show in 1991 and has shown every 2 to 3 years since, as well as in a huge variety of mixed shows, including the Royal Academy. She is an RWA Academician and has been designing covers for The London Review of Books since 2012.
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Curator, writer, and lecturer
https://www.pejuoshin.comPéjú Oshin is a British-Nigerian curator, writer, and lecturer born and raised in London. Her work explores the intersection of art, style, and culture, with a focus on liminal theory and diasporic narratives. Oshin has a proven track record of supporting artists at various career stages, collaborating with emerging talents and cultural producers at institutions like Tate, Barbican, and Wellcome Collection.
As an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, Oshin taught courses in Fashion and Culture & Enterprise departments. She authored “Between Words & Space” (2021), a collection of poetry and prose, and has written for artists and the Financial Times HTSI. In 2021, Oshin was shortlisted for the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Arts & Culture category and selected as one of fifteen “rising stars” by AWITA.
Currently serving as Associate Director at Gagosian, Oshin is also a member of the ArtFund Curatorial Diversity Steering Group and a trustee of iniva (Institute of Intenational Visual Arts). Her previous roles include Curator of Young People’s Programmes at Tate (2018-2022), Chair of Trustees at Peckham Platform and a judge for a number of cultural initiatives. Oshin’s multifaceted career demonstrates her commitment to fostering diverse voices in the art world and bridging cultural gaps through her curatorial practice.
Director of Affordable Art Fair UK
https://www.hugobarclay.comHugo Barclay is UK Fair Director at Affordable Art Fair, leading the execution of three London art fairs. His previous experience includes managing the gallery programme at London Art Fair and among previous roles at Artsy and art advisories. He has an acute understanding of the gallery ecosystem he is particularly passionate about nurturing living artists, and the galleries supporting them.
Printmaker and painter, fellow and past president of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers
http://www.anitaklein.comAnita Klein studied at Chelsea and the Slade schools of art. She is a fellow and past president of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (RE) and her work is in many private and public collections in Europe, the USA and Australia, including Arts Council England and the British Museum. She divides her time between studios in London and Anghiari, Italy.
“Ravel said he wanted his music to be complex, but not complicated. Anita Klein might say the same of her art. There is a grand simplicity to her works, but that is not the same as saying they lack subtlety and ambiguity. On the contrary, they have the sort of unselfconscious directness that comes from living and breathing art for so long that it becomes second nature” – John Russell Taylor
Artist, winner of Jackson’s Art Prize 2024
https://andrewtorr.comBorn in Yorkshire in 1965, Andrew Torr moved to London in 1983 to study painting under Bernard Cohen at Wimbledon School of Art. He has lived and worked in the capital since completing his degree in 1987 initially from a studio in Cable Street in the East End and latterly in Wandsworth.
Much of his work has been an attempt to render and explore the city, and most recently, Torr has been working on a series of paintings of suburban housing estates; the modest, all-purpose, vernacular architecture, ubiquitous in UK towns and cities. These paintings share the same interest in big spaces and the lived environment but, although they are formal paintings, they are charged with a quiet melancholy
and ennui.
In 1992, Torr took a forced sabbatical after suffering a serious accident which severed all the tendons and nerves of his right hand. This may well have finished his career but surgeons were able to reattach the connective tissue and, through therapy and determination, he regained enough dexterity to return to painting.
Artist, Contemporary British Portrait Painters member
https://www.joshuadonkorart.co.ukJoshua Donkor (b. 1997, UK) is a Ghanian-British painter whose work uses portraiture as a tool to subvert monolithic portrayals of Black identity.
“My goal is to tell people’s individual stories,” Donkor says. “What essentially makes the work I do so accessible to so many people has to do with the fact that so many people have a background of being in between; between different cultures and different families. People are stuck in between different worlds that are equally part of themselves. That comes through in the work.”
RBA Rome Scholarship 2024
Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2024
First Prize: £6,000 + £2,000 art materials
Jackson’s Choice Awards (x6): £1,000 art materials each
Judge’s Choice Awards (x6): £1,000 art materials each
People’s Choice Award: £1,000 art materials
Student Award: £500 art materials
Amateur Award: £500 art materials
Material Awards and Sponsors:
Oil: Michael Harding worth £1,500
Acrylic: Royal Talens worth £1,500
Watercolour: Schmincke worth £1,500
Drawing: Faber-Castell worth £1,000
Pastel: Sennelier worth £1,000
Intaglio: Cranfield worth £1,000
Relief: Speedball worth £1,000
Planographic: Lawrence worth £1,000
• UK and international artists.
• Amateur, emerging, and established artists.
• Artworks in painting, drawing, and printmaking.
• Any subject matter.
• £5 early bird entry | 25th November – 31st December
• £6.50 discounted entry | 1st January – 18th February
• £7 full price entry | 19th February – 2nd March
Submit 5 artworks for the price of 4 until 18th February
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