Selection has now been completed for this year's £25,000 Threadneedle Prize exhibition, which opens at the Mall Galleries on Thursday 2 September 2010.

46 works have been selected from more than 2,100 works submitted through the open competition. The emphasis for this year's Prize is on producing a visually coherent exhibition from a collection of outstanding figurative paintings and sculptures. This curatorial approach takes the Prize in a new direction, as the three selectors collaborate on an exhibition which we hope you'll find fresh and surprising, intriguing and beguiling.

Don't miss two exciting events at this year's Threadneedle Prize exhibition:

Critics' View

Debate: Who gets the money: Arts Funding in Crisis?

The Threadneedle Prize showcases the best new figurative and representational art in Britain today. Its purpose is to encourage artists with real commitment and vision to submit paintings and sculptures created especially for the competition. There is over £40,000 to be won.

What the Press said in 2009

“A triumph… more pleasure and provocation than any Turner show of the past decade” (Financial Times)

“There are paintings here which make an unpredictable splash” (The Independent)

“What is certain is that the times they are a changin’, and the Threadneedle has a part in that drama” (Financial Times)


This year three selectors  - Xavier Bray (Assistant Curator at the National Gallery), David Rayson (Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art) and Michael Sandle RA (Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors) -  curate an exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London in September 2010 drawing on work submitted through the open competition.

Our three selectors will decide the winner of the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize from a shortlist of seven works submitted through the open submission. The prizewinner will be announced on the evening of 15 September.  Each of the six runners up will receive £1,000.  This year a new prize, the £10,000 Visitors Choice, will be awarded by visitors attending the exhibition.

It is possible for the same artist to win both the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize and the £10,000 Visitors Choice, making this event one of the most valuable competitions for a single work of art in Britain today. 


Prize Winners
2009 - Sheila Wallis
2008 - Nina Murdoch


For further information www.threadneedleprize.com

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