2025 Ingram Prize

Now open for entries

The Ingram Prize is an annual purchase prize open to visual artists who are within five years of graduation from a UK-based art school.

This year we are celebrating ten years of the Ingram Prize! Established in 2016, the prize was created by The Ingram Collection to celebrate and support artists at the beginning of their professional careers.  It’s completely free to enter, in any size or media, and all the details are available on our online entry portal here.

This year we are delighted to be returning to Unit 1 Gallery ǀ Workshop in London for the Ingram Prize exhibition, showcasing the work of all our shortlisted finalists.

We will select three artists as recipients of the Ingram Prize, to be announced at the exhibition opening event on Wednesday 26 November 2025. Their shortlisted work will be acquired for The Ingram Collection, and one Ingram Prize recipient will be offered a solo exhibition in 2026 at Lightbox Gallery & Museum.

Selection Panel

For this 10th edition we are delighted to welcome a distinguished panel of artists and curators to select our Ingram Prize winners:

 

Jo Baring

Jo is an art historian and curator specialising in Modern British and Contemporary Art. She is Director of the Ingram Collection. A former Director of Christie’s UK, Jo is author for arts publications and a regular speaker at institutions, art fairs and galleries. Jo is the co-writer and co-presenter of the podcast Sculpting Lives. She is editor of Revisiting Modern British Art, published autumn 2022.

 

 

 

Kate Davies

Kate has over 20 years’ experience in the visual art sector. She is currently Director of the David and Indrė Roberts Collection and the Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), a non-profit contemporary arts organisation based in London. Kate has led RIA through a re-brand and new identity, vision and mission to increase accessibility to the David and Indrė Roberts Collection, one of the largest private contemporary art collections in the UK with close to 2,500 works. Since Kate joined RIA, the organisation has forged partnerships with over 20 national museums and cultural institutions, launched an artist residency in Scotland for international and UK artists and developed new performance commissioning programmes. Kate is a Trustee of Site Gallery, a non-profit contemporary art gallery in Sheffield, UK.

 

Permindar Kaur

Permindar Kaur is an artist whose practice extends over more than three decades, during which time she has become one of Britain’s most innovative artists. Known as much for her deft manipulation of materials including glass, metal, and fabric, as for her evocative exploration of home, childhood, memory and cultural identity, Kaur’s practice defies easy categorisation. With its fastidious regard for scale and form, Kaur’s work is both alluring and contemplative.

Her Overgrown House (2020) is included in Compton Verney’s major new Sculpture in the Park project for 2024 alongside legendary sculptors such as Louise Bourgeoise and Helen Chadwick, and her solo exhibition Mirror, Mirror will open at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery in June 2025. Permindar Kaur completed her MA at Glasgow School of Art and lives and works in the UK.

 

David Remfry

David Remfry studied at Hull College of Art from 1959 to 1964 and had his first solo show in London in 1973. He has since had more than 50 international solo exhibitions. Over the past five decades, Remfry has become known for his large-scale watercolours of dancers and his drawings and watercolours of neighbours and friends at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City, where he lived from 1995 to 2016. Remfry was elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1987. In 2001 he was awarded an MBE for services to British Art in America, in 2006 he was elected a Member of the Royal Academy of Arts and in 2007 he was invited to receive Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Lincoln. He was Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools from 2016 to 2018. A retrospective of Remfry’s work, curated by Dr Gerardine Mulcahy-Parker, is planned for 2025 at Beverley Art Gallery, East Riding.

Other prizes & opportunities for 2025

• Founder’s Award: Chris Ingram will personally select one work to be acquired for The Ingram Collection

• London Art Fair 2026: VIP Lounge Exhibition curated by Jo Baring. We will select two artists to showcase their work at this prestigious art fair

• Professional Practice Day: Professional practice talks by a range of industry specialists, hosted by The Ingram Collection for all finalists, at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in January 2026

• Residencies: we will invite all finalists to apply for two wonderful opportunities in 2026:

The Residency with CURA Art and the inaugural Artist in Residence programme at West Horsley Place, Surrey

 

About The Residency from CURA Art

Currently taking place at Villa Lena in the hills of Tuscany, Italy, The Residency is a platform aimed at supporting and sponsoring underrepresented artists, centred around a residency which allows time away from their usual routine.  The Residency uses a unique approach, creating a supportive ecosystem through mentorship and community, connecting artists with influential patrons as a catalyst for change. Created in response to the growth of collecting with purpose – collectors identifying and valuing their role in supporting the arts – The Residency is part of a movement seeking to nourish the art sector at a time when public funding for culture is being reduced. The aim is to create an accessible and international platform that nurtures artists and encourages a relationship with those that champion their work.
https://theresidencycommunity.com/
https://www.curaart.com/

 

About West Horsley Place:

West Horsley Place is a beautiful 400 acre estate in Surrey, with a Grade I listed manor house at its centre, and a mission to be a catalyst for creativity, providing learning and engagement opportunities in culture, heritage and nature. This Artist-in-Residence programme is created and offered in partnership with the Ingram Art Foundation and is designed to allow an artist to spend some time outside of their usual practice, connecting with the people, history, landscape and ethos of West Horsley Place to draw out its stories. This will be a unique opportunity to bring contemporary art to this historic site.
https://www.westhorsleyplace.org/

 

Deadline for entries

5 pm on Monday 15 September 2025

 

2025 Ingram Prize Exhibition

27 – 30 November 2025

We would like to extend our thanks to all of our 2025 partners and our sponsor Rawlinson & Hunter.