London based artist Reuben Murray has won the first ever Cass Art Prize 2024, a new annual award created by leading art supply retailer Cass Art, continuing the Cass family’s legacy of supporting artists for over 120 years. The awards were presented by Cass Art Founder Mark Cass at a prize giving ceremony at Copeland Gallery in Peckham. Murray won The Main Prize, being awarded a £10,000 cash prize and a stand at Saatchi Art’s The Other Art Fair 2025. Inspired by Ben Enwonwu’s African Mona Lisa, Murray’s winning piece Ada proudly portraits Ada, an extraordinary Jamaican Maroon with a Nigerian Yoruba name. Telling the story of African slaves who…
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Alon Zakaim Fine Art is delighted to present Carved & Cast: Sculpture Through the Ages – a captivating exhibition that brings together a museum-quality selection of privately owned sculptures, spanning over two millennia. Across two floors, the exhibition aims to highlight the divergent attitudes and approaches towards sculptural practice, and present a compelling survey of how some of the greatest masters of the last two centuries have shaped and redefined the medium. The exhibition features more than fifteen artists, with highlights including a magnificent hand-carved marble statue by Auguste Rodin, widely regarded as “the father of modern sculpture”, and a seminal unique…
Photographer Eilon Paz has travelled the world to capture a total portrait of global record collecting culture in his definitive Dust & Grooves project. 10 years on from the best-selling Vol. 1, Paz returns with new photobook Dust & Grooves Vol. 2: Further Adventures in Record Collecting. With 650 pages and a foreword from legendary De La Soul producer Prince Paul, Vol. 2 is released this month in the UK with a free party in East London. Eilon Paz is bringing together some of the contributors from the book on 19 November at The BBE Store in Hackney, with vinyl-only DJ sets from the likes of Don Letts, DJ Food, Mr Thing, Dom…
From refugee camps and mental health units to NPG Portrait Award nominees –The Cass Art Prize’s first ever shortlist offers a fascinating snapshot of contemporary British art’s diversity, resilience and impact. The selected artists, from across the length and breadth of the UK and Republic of Ireland, will see their work exhibited in a prestigious November exhibition in London at Copeland Gallery, with the winners announced on 14 November. The People’s Choice Award winner, voted for by visitors, will follow on the 25 November. The nominated artists, who cover an extraordinary range of disciplines and subjects, include: Fresh from a nomination for the National Portrait Gallery’s Portrait…