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Northern Talent Basks in London Sunshine

July 19, 2018 at 3:44 pm

Blazing June lived up to its name as the New Light Prize Exhibition continued to shine a light on Northern art, when its year-long tour visited the cultural heart of the capital. Our host for the week, the Bankside Gallery – home of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers – is situated on the South Ban ...

Self-Portrait Captures Visitors’ Imagination

July 11, 2018 at 11:12 am

Yorkshire-based artist Rhea Sherriff-Hammond has won the second of this year’s Visitors’ Choice Awards, with her haunting oil painting ‘Freyja’ Rhea is a British fine artist working primarily in oils from her farmhouse studio on the North Yorkshire Moors. Rhea trained in Fine Art at Hull University and has featured in solo ...

New data protection legislation means we could lose you

May 11, 2018 at 11:46 am

As a small charity working hard to champion the art and artists from the North of England, in the region and further afield, we rely heavily on your support to be able to continue our work and reach out further. We’d love to continue to let you know about all the exciting things we have planned, including our exhibition dates, artwork sales, ...

Thoughtful Choice made by Visitors to The Bowes Museum

March 14, 2018 at 11:12 am

Durham-based artist Justin Coburn has won the first of this year’s Visitors’ Choice Awards, with his beautiful painting ‘Thought Fox‘. Justin was born in the North East and studied Fine Art in the late 1980s, subsequently going onto work in commercial design. He is now a full-time painter, with his most recent work concentra ...

New Light Prize Exhibition Visits the Heart of Yorkshire

March 13, 2018 at 3:44 pm

The New Light Prize Exhibition, described as one of the ‘must see’ exhibitions in the North, continues to shine a light on Northern art by visiting the heart of Yorkshire as part of its year-long tour after the doors open at Huddersfield Art Gallery this month. By featuring a diverse range of work from hyperreal portraits to abstract paintin ...

Yorkshire-born Artist Comes Full Circle to Win Major Award.

November 27, 2017 at 4:08 pm

A bustling and exciting Private View of the New Light Prize Exhibition at The Bowes Museum saw Yorkshire-born artist Christopher Cook awarded the £10,000 Valeria Sykes Award for his graphite and resin drawing entitled ‘Forbidden Fruit’. Forbidden Fruit, 72x102cm, Graphite on c ...

Seventy Two Artists, Four Galleries, One Celebration

November 1, 2017 at 1:19 pm

With over 2,200 entries to this year’s New Light Prize Exhibition, the judges well and truly had their work cut out in selecting just 72 artists and 88 works. Well done those who made the cut and commiserations to those who didn’t. We are very aware of how much effort goes into the applications and we never take that for granted. One th ...

Manchester Gallery Helps Shine a Light on Emerging Northern Artists

July 26, 2017 at 2:30 pm

One of Manchester’s youngest contemporary art galleries is lending a helping hand to artists at the start of their career by sponsoring the Emerging Artist Award at this year’s New Light Prize Exhibition. Based in historic Castlefield in the heart of the city, Saul Hay Gallery joined Manchester’s vibrant art scene in October 2016 and exhibits both ...

Art for the good of your health

June 9, 2017 at 4:08 pm

Several thousand staff, patients and vistors to York Teaching Hospital will be the first to view a part of the New Light Collection as 14 artworks were installed this week. The Collection will be exhibited in York Hospital over the next 12 months with opportunities for staff, patients and their carers to take part in artist-run workshops and talks. ...

New Light launches Call for Entries

May 2, 2017 at 8:10 pm

New Light Prize Exhibition 2017, which boasts some of the region’s largest art awards, is open for entries. This will be the fourth New Light biennial Prize Exhibition and celebrates the range and quality of work being produced by artists in and from the North of England. It is open to artists at any stage in their creative careers, whether establi ...

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Northern Talent Basks in London Sunshine

Self-Portrait Captures Visitors’ Imagination

New data protection legislation means we could lose you

Thoughtful Choice made by Visitors to The Bowes Museum

New Light Prize Exhibition Visits the Heart of Yorkshire

Yorkshire-born Artist Comes Full Circle to Win Major Award.

Seventy Two Artists, Four Galleries, One Celebration

Manchester Gallery Helps Shine a Light on Emerging Northern Artists

Art for the good of your health

New Light launches Call for Entries

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