Exhibition
Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize 2026
Theme - 'Shapes and Shadows of the Ridgeway'
The Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize features four categories: Wall Art (including painting, drawing, etching, textile pictures and wall hangings, and mosaics), Sculpture (including ceramics), Photography (including digital art), and Writing (including poerty and prose). Each category has its own gallery of entries in an external Google Drive folder.
An Exhibition 'Catalogue' provides details of all works on display. Many works are available for purchase, please see the 'Sale of Works' for information.
Wall Art
Sculpture
Photography
Written
Catalogue
Exhibition catalogue of the works & their sale price (PDF).
Sale of works
Many of the works are for sale through the website.
Entry guidelines
Entries shall comply with the following guidelines:
- wall art may be carried out in any medium (oil, watercolour, pencil, pastel, textile, mosaic etc.) and any size up to a maximum unframed size of 2.0 metres in any dimension. All wall art, including paintings and drawings, must be submitted framed and ready to hang with secure wire or cord attached at the back. Additionally entries shall be accompanied with a high resolution photograph of the work (say 5 to 10MB file size) or the work submitted for photographing;
- sculptures including ceramics may be in any material but excluding unduly fragile materials, of any size up to a maximum of 2.0 metres in any dimensions and not more than 100kg in weight. Sculptures shall be accompanied with a high resolution (say 5 to 10MB file size) photograph of the work or the work submitted for photographing;
- photographs and digital art shall be printed to ideally A4 size but between 10”x8” (254mm x 204mm) and 20”x16” (508mm x 408mm) and mounted with a mask but not framed, with a maximum mask size being 20”x16” (500mm x 400mm) or 50mm border around the image whichever is the largest, plus an electronic .jpg file to a maximum size of 15MB;
- pieces of written prose or poetry shall be a minimum of 200 words and maximum of 5,000 words in English. A single entry may comprise a collection of related shorter pieces which together form a coherent whole. Written prose shall be submitted as a .DOC or .PDF file.