Prizes, Competitions and Awards
The University offers a range of annual prizes, competitions and awards for fine artists:
Ashmolean Museum Vivien Leigh Prize
A prize is offered by the Ashmolean Museum from the Vivien Leigh Fund for a two-dimensional work of art on paper, not exceeding 55 by 40 centimetres, by an undergraduate member of the University.
Value: £350
The work will be chosen, if a work of sufficient merit is submitted, by the Keeper of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum from work submitted to the Print Room in June 2012 or work exhibited at the annual degree show at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
It is a condition of the award that the winning work be given to the Ashmolean.
For further details, please contact the Western Art Print Room, Ashmolean Museum:
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Bate Collection Postcard Competition
Entries are invited from undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art for artworks inspired by the Bate Collection of musical instruments for a new range of postcards. The collection can be accessed during weekday afternoons, 2-5 pm.
The artworks are to be judged by a panel comprising of one representative of the Bate Collection, one representative of the Ruskin School and one external judge, followed by a presentation of small cash prizes and subsequently a batch of the resulting postcards to the winners.
Winning works will also be used for publicity purposes on the Bate Collection website and also for use in the Faculty of Music brochure.
Value: £100 winning entry, £25 runners up
Artworks are to be hung in the foyer and a 50 word statement to be submitted to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), by date tbc November 2012
Judging and winning announcement: date tbc November 2012
Egerton Coghill Landscape Prize
The Egerton Coghill Landscape Prize will be awarded, if an entry of sufficient quality is submitted, for the best small landscape painting painted during the twelve months preceding the closing date for entries by a member of the University who is at that date reading for any degree, diploma, or certificate of the University.
Value: £350 approx
Entries must not exceed four square feet in area and should be sent unframed to Head of School, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, 74 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG, no later than Friday in fourth Week of Trinity Term, with a statement signed by the competitor that the painting has been painted in the preceding twelve months. No competitor may submit more than one entry for any one competition, and the winner of the prize in any one year shall not be eligible to compete in any subsequent year.
The 15 New Bridge Street Prize
All 2nd year undergraduate students from the Ruskin School are invited to make site specific work for 15 New Bridge Street Chambers, London. The work is to be initially displayed at 74 High Street and judged by a panel from 15 New Bridge Street with external guests. A cash prize is awarded for the winning work and all other pieces are then installed at 15 New Bridge Street for an annual display.
Value: £500
A statement of 100 words should be emailed to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by date tbc October 2012
Work should be hung in 74 High Street by no later than date tbc October 2012
Judging and winning announcement : date tbc October 2012
Installation of work at 15 New Bridge Street : date tbc October 2012
Preview event and award presentation at 15 New Bridge Street : date tbc November 2012
Geoffrey Rhoades Commemorative Bursary
The bursary, will be awarded, if there is a candidate of sufficient merit, by the examiners in the Preliminary Examination in Fine Art to the candidate whom they regard as the most outstanding on the basis of work submitted for the examination.
Value: £100
John Farthing Prize
The prize is given by Professor Stephen Farthing, RA, for outstanding performance in Human Anatomy in the Preliminary Examination in Fine Art.
Value: £300 approx
Kevin Slingsby Prize for Funnel Vision
The Kevin Slingsby Prize for Funnel Vision is open to all undergraduates at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art for work in any media. The prize was established in 2006 to celebrate the life and work of Kevin Slingsby, who taught at the Ruskin for 21 years and had a profound effect on the hundreds of students he worked with. The judges will be looking for creative and original thinking and the prize is awarded on those grounds, rather than for a specific piece of work and regardless of media. The shortlisting and judging takes place in 1st Week of Trinity Term and the panel includes members of the Slingsby family, a member of academic staff from the Ruskin School and a member of the Ruskin School alumni body.
Value: £500
Entries comprising a statement of up to 50 words, together with three images, with their titles, sizes and media where appropriate, (film and YouTube clips are acceptable but no more that 5 MB in total) should be emailed to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by no later than Friday 27 April 2012, 5pm. “Slingsby Prize” and the entrant’s initials must be in the subject line and year of study should be indicated in the submission.
Judging and winning announcement : Friday 4 May 2012
Oxford University Press Pirye Prize
The OUP Pirye Prize is an annual commission open to 2nd year students from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. It provides an opportunity for students to experience the whole process of turning an original concept into a site-specific work, transforming their initial ideas into actual works of art and finally exhibiting their pieces as public art in the OUP Bookshop on the High Street in Oxford. Running for the past twelve years, the Pirye Prize was named after Dr Pirye, an early 16th century tenant of the Bookshop site and the judging panel has included well-known names of the art world including Adrian Searle, Andrew Wilson, Sarah Kent, Ossian Ward. This year’s guest judge was Martin Herbert from the Arts Review.
Value: £1,000
Early in Trinity Term at the Ruskin School the 2nd years mount an exhibition of their works, in all media, together with their written proposals for the OUP Bookshop commission. The judging panel consider both the works presented, and the quality of individual students proposals to select the winner of the Pirye Prize.
The exhibition must be mounted and completed proposals submitted to
Prof Maria Chevska, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, 74 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG, by Monday 14 May 2012, 5pm
Stuart Morgan Prize for Art History
The Stuart Morgan Prize is awarded by the examiners for the outstanding extended essay in BFA Finals. The prize commemorates the life and work of the art critic Stuart Morgan (1948-2002) who was a tutor at the Ruskin School from 1992-98. His criticism was renowned for its independence and originality, and a collection of his writings, What the Butler Saw, was published in 1996.
Value: £100
The Sir William Dunn School for Pathology Prize
The Sir William Dunn School for Pathology announces a new prize open to all BFA finalists at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. Students are invited to submit proposals for a site specific work to be housed centrally in the new part of the Sir William Dunn School.
Value: £1000
Proposals should consist of approximately 250 words with supporting visuals and be inspired by the Sir William Dunn School either directly through the subject area of pathology or by the surrounding new architecture. These should be handed in to Sarah Wilkinson at 74 High Street by no later than Tuesday 24 April, 2012, 5pm. The judging and announcement will take place on Wednesday 25 April and the winner will complete the commission over the summer vacation for installation during October 2012 (date tbc).
Waddesdon Manor Postcard Competition
An annual collaborative competition with Waddesdon Manor where undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art are invited to visit the Manor and subsequently create artworks suitable to be reproduced as postcards to be retailed at Waddesdon inspired by the collection and grounds. The work is then displayed at 74 High Street where a panel from Waddesdon Manor come and select the winning entries, followed by the presentation of Waddesdon Champagne and subsequently a batch of the resulting postcards to the winners. The chosen original artworks are then displayed at Waddesdon Manor during the MAD festival in June.
Visit to Waddesdon Manor: Friday 27 April 2012
Artworks and a short statement must be submitted to
Sarah Wilkinson, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, 74 High Street,
Oxford OX1 4BG, by Wednesday 9 May, 5pm