Art Prizes
Details of entry for the festival's art prizes 2023 will be announced later this year. Please sign-up to the festival's mailing list to receive details as soon as they are available.
Winning Artists
Sir John Hurt Art Prize
Kate Giles
In the Wake of Wind. Scudding Sun [West Acre]
Oil on board, 30 x 38cm
The board mounted on an oak box
Late March 2022. Blustery day in West Acre, Norfolk, looking eastwards. Erratic sun spooling over distant fields.
£1,650
Charlotte Fraser Ceramics & Glass Prize
Jennifer Amon
Blue Landscape Vessel
36 x 28cm
Hand built/coiled and pinched from black stoneware clay, with oxide slip and glaze.
Sworders Emerging Artists
Mary Whitlock
Time to Party
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30cm
Black floating frame 3cm wide
Time to party after two years of lockdowns.
£550
Sworders Young Artists
Izzy Wright
No Means No
Tonal pencils, acrylic paint, 30 x 100cm
Unframed
This is a tonal piece I created for my school project which was based on ‘how can art be used to address social issues’. The piece visualises the emotional pain of sexual assault and how it can happen to any woman of any shape or size. The style was inspired by the artist Barbara Kruger but all photos/concepts used are my own.
£350
Shortlisted Artists
Sir John Hurt & Sworders Art Prizes
| Sworders | Young Artists | Sworders | Emerging Artists |
| Zahara Akram | Mike Dodd | Liz James | Gina Soden |
| Guy Allen | Louise Dougherty | Wendy Kimberley | Eleanor-Rose Stamp |
| Christine Allman | Amy Doughty | Stephanie Lacey | Beth Stilgoe |
| Momina Anwar | Sophie Duez | Alan Latter | Nic Stratton Tyler |
| Diana Ashdown | Zelda Eady | Caroline Mackintosh | Emilia Symis |
| Peter Baldwin | Anthea Eames | Ipshita Meyer | Heather Tamplin |
| John Bardell | Lee Eveson | Inês-Hermione Mulford | Mary Thatcher |
| Mia Bartram | Geoff Evison | Peter Norton | Corrin Tulk |
| Lynda Baxter | Gypsy Kate Garramone | Daisy Pearson | Imogen Tyler |
| Keron Beattie | Kate Giles | Susie Penrose | Peta-Stacey Wainwright |
| Mary Blue | Paula Gonzalez | Rosie Phillips | Emilia Lotta Wald |
| Gabriella Buckingham | Annie Hall | Dylan Pulley | Jane Weinle |
| Christy Burdock | Frankie Hanmer | Judith Reece | Sammy Weston |
| Safi Butler | Chris Hann | Kirsten Riley | Icy White |
| Sascha Chopra | Imogen Hawgood | Tracey Ross | Mary Whitlock |
| Antonia Clare | Helen Herbert | Kathryn Rowden | Ray Whyard |
| Dallas Collins | Caroline Houchell | Jill Sharpe | Bobbie Wilson |
| Adam Cornish | Lucy Hu | Rachel Shaw Ashton | Rosie Winn |
| Maggy Day | Ken Hurst | Anna Sims | Izzy Wright |
| Ada Densham Bond | Ruby Hyde | Design Smith | Paul Zawadski |
| Nick Dittrich | Susan Isaac |
Charlotte Fraser Ceramic & Glass Prize
| Jennifer Amon | Beatrice Galletley | Henrietta MacPhee | Pat Southwood |
| Emma Blount | Eliza Gooden | Emma Marks | Nessie Stonebridge |
| Helen Breach | Jemma Gowland | Rebeca Maxiniuc | Sarah Strachan |
| Rose Brettingham | Alison Henry | Annie McAlister-Dilks | Dr Chimene Taylor |
| Judith Campbell | Susan Isaac | Stephen Murfitt | Erica Tung |
| Stephanie Carlton | Sarah Jenkins | Florence North | Katrina Wheeler |
| Chi-Son Chang | Hassina Khan | Jade Pinell | Bethany Wood |
| Jan Crombie | Sogon Kim | Verity Pulford | Mary Wyatt |
| Clare Cummins | Julie Light | Pamela Schomberg | Muna Zuberi |
| Malakai Fox | Keri Lowe | C R Smith | |