Valeria Sykes has supported New Light since the charity was founded in 2010. New Light would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to Valeria, whose dedication and contributions have played a vital role in establishing New Light as the leading supporter of artistic talent in... Continue reading
Congratulations to the following artists: Winners were announced at the launch of the New Light Summer Exhibition of the North at The 1912 Mill, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds on Thursday 10th July 2025. The following judges each selected an artist to receive a bursary of... Continue reading
Congratulations to the following artist: Announced in our Newsletter 27 January 2025. New Light Visitors’ Choice Award (sponsored by TIG) – voted for by visitors to The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Virginia Ray – When the Moors Settle, North Yorkshire Continue reading
Congratulations to the following artist: The winner was announced at The Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate on Friday 11th October 2024 New Light Visitors’ Choice Award (sponsored by TIG) – voted for by visitors to The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Chrissie Freeth – Light Footfalls ... Continue reading
Congratulations to the following artists: The winners were announced at The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle on Friday 28th June 2024 New Light Sculpture Prize 2024(sponsored by The Biscuit Factory Foundation) Brian Shields – ‘FALLEN (John Clare, poet) Sam Waters, Curator says: ‘Brian Shields is the... Continue reading
Congratulations to the following artist: The winner was announced at The Gallery at Rheged on Wednesday 14th March 2024 New Light Visitors’ Choice Award (sponsored by TIG) – voted for by visitors to The Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead Kate Bentley RI SWA –... Continue reading
Congratulations to the following artists: Winners were announced at the launch of the New Light Prize Exhibition at the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum on the evening of Friday 29th September. The New Light Valeria Sykes Prize: Frances Bell – ‘Lockdown’ The New... Continue reading
This Friday, at the launch of the New Light Prize Exhibition 2023-24, hosted by the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, we finally get to find out the winners of this year’s Prize Exhibition! We’ve had an exciting few months watching entries pile up on... Continue reading
The Retreat Clinic in York is enjoying the loan of several contemporary artworks from the New Light Collection. Founder, William Tuke, is regarded as being a revolutionary in the care of mental health. Horrified by the treatment of patients in what were then called... Continue reading
New Light Printmakers’ Fair 2022 …no crowds, no rain, no elbows, no parking… wonderful original prints, by far the nicest way to do your Christmas shopping, whilst supporting northern artists. Alan Stones | Anne Desmet RA | Anthony Ratcliffe | Cat Moore | Clare... Continue reading
Northern Lights – A 10 Year Retrospective of New Light Art In celebration of 10 years of the New Light Prize Exhibition, we are excited to announce that we will be holding a retrospective in collaboration with the Saul Hay Gallery in Manchester March 26th... Continue reading
If you are a member or director of a community group, hospital, hospice or school you are welcome to borrow any of the artworks in the permanent New Light Collection free of charge. In 2021, despite the covid-19 pandemic continuing to give us daily challenges,... Continue reading
Several articles about this year’s New Light Prize Exhibition: The Net Gallery – New Light Prize Exhibition 2020 The Yorkshire Times – Brian Shields The Yorkshire Times – Wilf Tilley The Yorkshire Times – Christian Alexander Bailey The Yorkshire Times – Joanna Whittle The Yorkshire... Continue reading
Unfortunately as of midnight on 4th November Scarborough Art Gallery has now closed to comply with the current lockdown restrictions and is planned to re-open on 2nd December. We would like to thank all our visitors to the gallery and to suggest a few ideas on how... Continue reading
Our 2017/18 emerging artist award winner Deborah Grice tells us how being part of the New Light Prize Exhibition transformed her career. Born in a village in East Yorkshire, not far from the Yorkshire Wolds, Deborah Grice grew up under big skies. Running... Continue reading
The Saul Hay Gallery and New Light have a common objective to celebrate the best in contemporary art across the region, and have once again kindly agreed to sponsor the Emerging Artist Award for the New Light Prize Exhibition. We met up (virtually) with Ian... Continue reading
Exciting opportunity for Artists – £10k Art prize & touring exhibition Northern artists are encouraged to enter for the New Light Prize Exhibition before the deadline of the 31 May 2020. This is an exciting opportunity for northern artists to win a £10k art prize and... Continue reading
Exciting opportunity for Cumbrian Artists – £10k Art prize & touring exhibition Cumbrian artists are encouraged to enter for the New Light Prize Exhibition before the deadline of the 31 May 2020. This is an exciting opportunity for northern artists to win a £10k art prize and... Continue reading
We asked Annette Petchey, Founder of New Light and judge of the Prize Exhibition 2020/21 a few questions …. Congratulations! New light is now in its 10th anniversary year and has exhibited hundreds of artists in dozens of venues with thousands of entries and visitors.... Continue reading
Northern Prize Exhibition is a fabulous opportunity for Yorkshire Artists. NEW LIGHT PRIZE EXHIBITION 2020-21 Artists still have time to enter for the New Light Prize Exhibition, which has been described as the ‘most talked about Prize Exhibition in the North’ with the deadline being... Continue reading
An update from Scarborough Art Gallery on the New Light Prize Exhibition which opens on 19th September 2020. It’s ‘business as usual’ for the prestigious New Light Prize Exhibition, an open exhibition that shines a light on Northern art. The exhibition is going ahead as... Continue reading
Originally from the Lake District, Grant has worked as a curator in museums and galleries based in London, the East Midlands and Yorkshire since completing his post graduate studies in the mid 1990s. Since 2011, Grant has been responsible for the management and programming of... Continue reading
Anne Desmet, one of this year’s Prize Exhibition judges is one of only three engravers to ever be elected as an Royal Academician. As a wood engraver, Anne describes her work as ‘creation in light’. In this interview, she explains her techiques, her inspirations and... Continue reading
A London-based arts writer and editor, Sam Phillips is one of this year’s New Light Prize Exhibition judges. Sam is the author of a guide to the capital’s art collections, The Art Guide: London (Thames & Hudson, 2011), and Isms: Understanding Modern Art (Bloomsbury, 2012), an... Continue reading
Now that the Prize Exhibition has had all its loose-ends tied and tidied we can catch up with Gavin Watson – winner of The Inter Group’s Visitors’ Choice Award at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery – and ask him a few questions. ... Continue reading
At New Light we are always astounded by the generosity of the artists we work with and never more so than when they donate their artwork to the New Light Collection. So imagine our surprise and delight to receive three new pieces this month, as... Continue reading
We’re delighted to announce that Gavin Watson has scooped the third ‘Visitors’ Choice Award’ of the New Light Prize Exhibition with his work entitled ‘Lucky Jim’. With well over 1000 votes cast the award, sponsored by The Inter Group, certainly had the people of Cumbria... Continue reading
The end of each leg of the Prize Exhibition tour always has a slight sense of sadness… a sense that is soon lifted when the TIG Visitors Choice Award votes are counted and we can reveal whose work captured the audience’s imagination. At Huddersfield Art... Continue reading
The end of each leg of the Prize Exhibition tour always has a slight sense of sadness… a sense that is soon lifted when the TIG Visitors Choice Award votes are counted and we can reveal whose work captured the audience’s imagination. At Huddersfield Art... Continue reading
With the Prize Exhibition taking a well-earned rest before heading over to Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in October, we’re taking the opportunity to catch up with some of the artists whose work is in the show. First we chatted to Justin Coburn, whose... Continue reading