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Self Portrait Prize 2025
Online Shortlist Exhibition 21 Jul 2025 - 7 Jan 2026 The online shortlist exhibition presents a selection of highly commended works entered into this year’s Self Portrait Prize. The works on dispaly highlight and celebrate a wide range of powerful and inventive approaches to self-portraiture apparent in contemporary practices. Please note: where prices have not been listed, the work has... -
Self Portrait prize 2025
Online Longlist Exhibition 21 Jul 2025 - 7 Jan 2026 This online display presents a selection of artworks entered into the 2025 Self Portrait Prize. Displaying self-portraits by artists from all backgrounds and at different stages of their artistic careers, it demonstrates the continuation of the long established tradition of the artist as a subject for their own work. Including...
Past
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The Next Generation today
Curation of Prize entries by Next Generation Artists 28 May - 30 Sep 2021 In 2011, the Next Generation Collection was established to continue Ruth Borchard’s project into the twenty-first century. Alongside the Prize, the fundamental tenet of the Next Generation Collection is to... Read more -
The Self-Portrait Prize 2021
Exhibition of Long-listed works 17 May - 30 Sep 2021 The Self-Portrait Prize online exhibition presents the long-list of highly commended self-portraits submitted to the 2021 Prize. The artworks on display have been selected by the 2021 Prize Judging Panel... Read more -
And the Winner is...
Announcing the 2021 Prize Winner Lucy Jones 16 May - 30 Sep 2021 Read more
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Prospering Painters
Three young artists 8 Feb - 2 Mar 2021 Prospering Painters presents a selection of works by three young artists; Hannah Murray, Rowan Bazley & Toby Rainbird. Each displaying originality and technical talent all three have had self-portraits acquired... Read more -
The Artist in His Studio
6 Jan - 26 Feb 2021 The Artist in his Studio is an oil painting on panel by Rembrandt. Completed around 1628 the painting is now held by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.... Read more -
"Not Only Can Women Paint but..."
1 Nov - 31 Dec 2020 This curated selection of works showcases the variety of media through which female artists have used the Self Portrait Prize to explore the concept of self. It serves as a... Read more
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Representing the Next Generation
4 Oct 2020 - 1 Mar 2021 Read more -
History of the Collection
Permanent The original Ruth Borchard Collection was a life-long project of writer and collector Ruth Borchard (1910-2000). It not only holds significant examples of many historically important artistic movements and styles... Read more
