| Young Masters returns in 2023 with a call for artists for the Young Masters Art Prize. This unique initiative encourages emerging and mid-career contemporary artists to look back to the art of the past for inspiration. Young Masters recognises and showcases artists who show originality, skill and imagination in response to art history, and for artists working in Ceramics there is a dedicated Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize, which runs concurrently with the Young Masters Art Prize. |
Up to 15 artists will be shortlisted for the Young Masters Art Prize, and up to 10 ceramicists will be shortlisted for the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize. All shortlisted artists will feature in an exhibition in two parts, at 67 York Street in central London coinciding with Frieze week in October 2023.
Prizes for the Young Masters Art Prize include an Overall Award of £1,500, and two Highly Commended prizes of £500 each, awarded by the Artists Collecting Society.
The Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize has an Overall Award of £1,000 and a Highly Commended prize of £500, generously given by James and Maylis Grand.
For a third edition, Dr Chris Blatchley awards the Emerging Woman Artist Award of £1,000, along with mentoring, career advice and inclusion in an upcoming Art Fair with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Brownhill Insurance Group also support the People’s Choice Award with a £500 prize. The Lerouge Knight Award returns for an artist who explores and embraces cross-cultural awareness through their work.
Two shortlisted artists working within the expanded field of craft will receive the new Cockpit Prize from Cockpit, including four sessions with a Cockpit business coach, and participation in the Make It Count programme.
Key dates:
11 June 2023: Call for Artists closes
July 2023: Artist Selection and Judging
5 September 2023: Shortlist announcement
3 – 8 October 2023: Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize exhibition at 67 York Street, Marylebone
10 – 15 October 2023: (coinciding with Frieze week) Young Masters Art Prize exhibition at 67 York Street, Marylebone
October – December 2023: Young Masters Autumn Exhibition at the Exhibitionist Hotel
About the Young Masters Art Prize
The mission is to support emerging artists from across the world, bringing their work to a wider audience through a triennial Art Prize and a regular programme of touring exhibitions and fairs as well as maintaining a vibrant online presence that showcases their wide network of hundreds of talented artists. This global visibility and support can be career-making and life-changing, with opportunities for sales, exhibitions, gallery representation, press, and much more.
Young Masters is a not-for-profit international initiative which was launched in 2009 by gallerist Cynthia Valianti Corbett, founder of Cynthia Corbett Gallery.
This unique initiative highlights emerging artists of any gender, age, or nationality, working in any media, whose work responds to the art of the past.
In 2014 the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramic Prize was added to focus more attention on the growing interest in the collection of contemporary craft. 2017 saw the launch of the inaugural Young Masters Emerging Women Award. The fifth edition and 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Prize took place in October 2019.
The most recent Young Masters initiative is the curatorial platform Focus on the Female developed in 2021 as an artistic and philanthropic antidote to the impact of the COVID pandemic on women. Focus on the Female continues as a regular project within Cynthia Corbett Gallery’s exhibition programme.
About The Cynthia Corbett Gallery
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery is an international contemporary art gallery, which has an annual exhibition programme and exhibits at contemporary art fairs worldwide. The Gallery represents both emerging and established artists whose careers have been nurtured since the Gallery’s inception in 2004.
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