The Love Art Insurance team at Brownhill Insurance Group specialise in insurance for collectors, dealers, galleries and artists as well as those associated with the art world. Being avid collectors themselves, the team appreciate the strong ties that collectors have to their prized possessions. Brownhill Insurance Group have a strong record of excellent customer service and take pride in offering expert cover and being able to offer clients competitive and comprehensive policies. The wider Brownhill family also cater for personal and business insurances.

Originally from France, Dr Virginie Lerouge Knight is an artist who has spent more than 25 years living and working in China. Dr Lerouge Knight has exhibited extensively in China, Hong Kong and France and specializes in public art projects and installations. She is also a performance artist, participating in several major theatre productions in both French and English, as well as co-designing and directing experimental theatre performances in various museums in China and at the Shanghai Biennale in 2016.

Drawing on both her artistic and scientific background, Dr Lerouge Knight is passionate about pushing the boundaries of artistic innovation both conceptually and technically with a strong interest in cross-cultural themes, drawing on her personal experiences of living and travelling extensively overseas.

Cockpit is a centre for excellence in craft, bridging the gap between talent and opportunity. An award-winning social enterprise, Cockpit is home to 160 independent creative businesses in London.

Two shortlisted artists working within the expanded field of craft will receive the new Cockpit Prize from Cockpit, including four sessions with a Cockpit business coach, and participation in the Make It Count programme.

Hogbens Dunphy’s passion is finding new ways to improve businesses. Established in 1921, they have over 90 years of success providing caring, professional accountancy for The Arts and creative industries, including galleries and public and private art institutions. The firm offers a wide range of services and specialist knowledge of the arts sector. Hogbens Dunphy provides vital accountancy advice including: preparation of projections, cash flow and business plans, arranging finance, bookkeeping tuition and implementing management procedures and systems, tax planning, and business software.

Alex Eliezer is a businessman who helps clean his wife’s paintbrushes.

Evelyn Partners is the UK’s leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, created following the merger of Tilney and Smith & Williamson. With £54.4 billion of assets under management (as at 31 March 2023), it ranks as the second largest UK wealth manager measured by EBITDA and the fifth largest professional services firm ranked by fee income (source: Accountancy Age 50+50 rankings, 2022).

It has a network of offices across 28 towns and cities in the UK, as well as the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands. Through its operating companies, the Group offers an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.

Evelyn Partners’ purpose is to ‘place the power of good advice into more hands’, and it is uniquely well-placed to support clients with both their personal financial affairs and their business interests. Evelyn Partner’s personal wealth management services include financial planning, investment management and advice, personal tax advice and, through Bestinvest, an award-winning online investment service for self-directed investors. For businesses, its wide range of services includes assurance and accounting, business tax advice, employee benefits, forensic advice, fund administration, fund governance, recovery and restructuring and transaction services. 

For further information please visit: www.evelyn.com 

Maylis Grand and her husband James have generously donated Prize money to a dedicated Ceramics Prize, a unique prize for artists working in ceramic media. Maylis is Head of Product Development for a major European perfumery chain. She is also an avid collector of ceramic art.

In 1972, Viscountess Bridgeman founded Bridgeman Images, today one of the world's most prominent image archives. In 2006, she was lobbied by art market professionals to set up the Artists' Collecting Society, which handles the copyright and resale rights of over 1000 artists, including such high-profile names as Lucian Freud and Stanley Spencer. She has also edited and packaged a number of books connected with the arts and edited two art magazines, The Masters and Discovering Antiques. In 1997, Harriet was awarded the European Women of the Achievement Award in the Arts and, in 2005, she was voted the International Business Woman of the Year. In 2013, she was awarded a CBE for her contribution to the arts.

The Artists’ Collecting Society (ACS) was set up in 2006 as a not-for-profit, Community Interest Company dedicated to the administration of the Artist’s Resale Right (ARR) and copyright.

ACS represents just under 2,000 artists and artists’ estates including painters, sculptors, photographers, designers, and artists working in glass and ceramics. Their members range from well-known artists such as Frank Auerbach, Eileen Cooper, Michael Craig-Martin and Cecily Brown, to estates of important artists such as Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Rego, Leon Kossoff, Lucie Rie and Stanley Spencer. They are also proud to represent artists whose work has only recently started to sell regularly on the UK secondary market such as Bambi, Flora Yukhnovich, Cristina BanBan, Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Albert Willem and Vojtěch Kovařík. Through its Community Interest Initiatives, ACS proudly supports a great variety of prizes, bursaries, community projects and charities.

The Rudolph Blume Foundation was created to honor Sean Rudolph, whose passion for life and the arts was boundless. The mission of the Foundation is to continue Sean’s legacy by encouraging, sponsoring and promoting emerging artists in the fields of Contemporary Art and Theater. The Foundation will support scholarships, as well as innovative, singular and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres.

The Foundation’s first award was the Sean Rudolph Musical Theater Scholarship given on April 18, 2017, to Ryan Simon of Cypress Ranch High School during Theater Under the Stars’ “Tommy Tune Awards.” The Foundation intends to award this $5,000 scholarship annually. Additional awards will be made to Broadway Cares, the Houston MFA Core Program and similar arts entities.

Dr Chris Blatchley is a dedicated patron of the Arts. He generously supports the Prize from 2017 and has again generously donated the money for the Young Masters Emerging Woman Artist Award (previously Emerging Woman Art Prize).

Dr Blatchley is Director of The Glass House Opticians, founder of Capital Aesthetics, and Medical Director of The London Migraine Clinic.

UK-based charity Paintings in Hospitals are supporting a new award for an artist whose work responds to a health and wellbeing theme. They are offering a prize of £500.

Film Positives • Digital Print • Vinyl Decals... Since 1970

We are a specialist repro house based in London producing large format film positives for screen printers. Our large format services and products include: digital printing, large format printing, film positives, POS displays, scaffold signs, events banners, vinyl print and cut, bespoke wallpaper plus many more.

Henriane Mourgue d’Algue has over two decades of corporate, business management and executive coaching experience across continents and numerous industries. Her current focus is on impact investing, money coaching and accelerating inclusion. Henriane has always had an interest in art having studied Art History at UCL, and aims to give back to the arts through her collecting and philanthropic activities.

Henriane collects works and supports underrepresented artists with a particular interest in the subject of identity and cultural exchange. Henriane was born and raised in Belgium and has lived in worked in the US, Singapore, India, the Middle East and the UK.

She is the Founding Patron for Second Floor Studios, sits on the Executive Board of the Fondation BeLonging (France) and is interested in supporting projects that benefit artists directly.