The Women In Art Prize 2025
Discover our comprehensive range of prizes and awards designed to celebrate and elevate emerging women artists across the UK and beyond. Entries open on the 8th of March 2025.
Championing Women Artists
Women in art
Main Awards
Painting First Prize
The Women In Art Initiative
£1,000
Photography First Prize
Eve Arnold Award
£1,000
Sculpture Prize
£1,000
Drawing Prize
Using charcoal, pencils, graphite sticks, chalks, pastels and even oil pastels
Prize TBC
Print making Prize
- £500 prize money
- The Print winner will receive a dedicated page on www.printed-editions.com for 3 months
- Dedicated mailshots to collectors. Promotion of artwork on social media
- The Artist can list up to 12 prints
Best Overseas Artist
Open to all artists outside the UK
£1,000
Winner's work will be made into a print and framed for the 2025 exhibition
Additional opportunities include:
- Sonia Bb platform podcast interview on Create Magazine
- Article feature and AQ Society interview
- 1-hour coaching session (top 4 overseas artists)
- Disruptor's magazine article
- Artvox social media PR and artist profile interview
Special Awards
The Susan Angoy Award
For artists of African and Caribbean Heritage
£1,000
Open to Women Artists with the following Heritage:
- Black African
- Black Caribbean
- Black Other
- Mixed – White and Black Caribbean
- Mixed – White and Black African
- Other mixed backgrounds
Must provide a supporting statement on how the award would enhance artistic development.
Tim May Memorial Prize
For emerging women artists
£1,000
Donated by Susan Angoy
Artists must provide a supporting statement on how the award would make a difference and enhance their artistic development.
Exhibition & Media Opportunities
Cass Art Exhibition
Solo Exhibition opportunity plus £250 worth of Art vouchers
Zebra One Gallery
Exhibition space in Hampstead for one month
Square Feet Gallery
Private View and Exhibition in Marylebone, London
FLUX Exhibition
Exhibition Space at Flux 2025 and 10-page feature in The FLUX Review magazine
Stocked in over 700 bookstores
Media Coverage
- Feature in Fabric Magazine (50,000 monthly copies)
- Interview and studio visit/outreach campaign
- Dedicated page on printed-editions.com for 3 months (Print winner)
- Dedicated mailshots to collectors
- Social media promotion
Art Fair Opportunity
Booth at @forgeartfair in November 2025 for one finalist
Additional Prizes
Young Woman Artists Award
For artists 26 years and under
£500
The Riverstone Award
For artists 65 and over
Hosking House Residency
One-month residency for artists 40+ years (2025)
The Art Academy London
Free place on masterclass weekend (2025)
Mall Galleries Prize
Best Figurative Painting
10 free entries to Open Exhibitions (Worth £180)
HSoA Prizes
- Abstract Painting Prize - Exhibition at Hampstead School of Art
- Young Artist Prize - Art course up to £400 (ages 18-25)
Special Events
Private View and Award Ceremony
The British Library
Art on a Postcard
All finalists entered into the 2025 International Women's Day Auction
Conditions for Entry
• Any female artist over 18 living and working in the UK may submit
• Overseas women artists may apply for the Overseas Prize only
• Work must have been completed in the last two years
• Maximum of two works submitted (only one work will be chosen)
• Works should not be larger than 1 metre wide or 130 cm high (including frame)