Inspiring art for Derbyshire
The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award
Bringing a rising artist to the county to produce a lasting legacy of contemporary work inspired by the county’s landscape, heritage and people.
Limited edition prints of previous winners' paintings are available.
"The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award aims to enrich the cultural life of Derbyshire with the development of a growing collection of contemporary art of national importance."
The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award was established by Foundation Derbyshire in 1998 with the help of a legacy from the estate of the late Jonathan Vickers, a lifelong lover of fine arts. Jonathan Vickers worked for several years as a designer with Colefax and Fowler, the furnishing and wallpaper design company...
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Eighth Award winner announced
We are delighted to announce that artist Ed Burkes is the winner of the eighth Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award and will take up his residency in Derby in October 2019. Since graduating from Falmouth University in 2016 with a First Class Honours BA in Fine Art, Ed’s work has been selected for a number of exhibitions, including Saatchi Invest in Art and FBA Futures 2017 and he has been shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries and won the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Travel to Italy Award in 2016. In 2019, in a new collaboration between the Award and Mall Galleries, past exhibitors of FBA Futures, the UK’s largest annual survey of emerging figurative art, were invited to be considered for this exciting residency, which is fast becoming one of the most coveted, prestigious and nationally recognised Art Awards in the UK. Find out more…
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