Awards & Residencies

As part of its support for early career sculptors, the RBS offers 10 Bursary Awards every year to those who show a high level of potential for further original contributions to the art form. A Bursary Award enables a sculptor to participate in the Bursary Award Show at the RBS gallery, to enjoy all the benefits of membership for 2 years with no subscription fee and to become a full Associate at the end of this period. Applications will next be considered in April 2012 and will be advertised on the website and in a-n magazine. These awards are currently supported by the Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust.

 

Congratulations to the 2011 Bursary Award winners: James Balmforth, David Buckley, Alex Chinneck, Mark Davey, Sian Griffiths, Julia Malle, Kate McLeod, Eric Schumacher, Katie Surridge, Hannah Wiles

 

The 2010 Bursary Award winners are: Eliza Bennett, Neil Dixon, Carlos Franklin, Aaron Head, Simon Linington, Wendy Mayer, Manuel Munoz, Anna Sikorska, Gaea Todd, Sam Zealey

 

 

FIRST@108 is an award designed to offer sculptors an opportunity to extend their practice into competing for public art commissions. The award is open to sculptors of any age and nationality working in any style or media who have yet to be recognised as practitioners in public art.

 

This award is advertised publicly and attracts worldwide applications. A shortlist of five sculptors are invited to make maquettes of their proposed ideas for an exhibition. The winning sculptor is awarded £10,000 towards the production and installation of the sculpture which they keep, and an accompanying solo exhibition in the RBS Salon Gallery.

 

Past winners of the FIRST@108 Public Art Award include:

2011 Jenske Dijkhuis, 2010 Suresh Dutt ARBS, 2009 Robert Worley ARBS