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{{Short description|Art prize}}
'''The Columbia Threadneedle Prize''' (formerly '''The Threadneedle Prize)''' is a major art prize, which showcases contemporary figurative art. It was launched by the [[Mall Galleries]] in 2008.<ref name="FT 2009" /> The prize is open to any artist, eighteen or over, who is living or working in the UK or Continental Europe. The prize is named after the [[asset management]] firm, [[Columbia Threadneedle Investments]].

==Background==
The Threadneedle Prize was launched in 2008 to support the popular interest in [[figurative art]]. It was organised by the Federation of British Artists and offered a prize of £25,000.<ref name="FT 2009" /> The new competition coincided with a move by the rival [[Turner Prize]] away from painting and sculpture and, in some eyes, becoming "trivial and dull".<ref name="FT 2009" /> Art critic [[Brian Sewell]] welcomed the new prize, though complained that the majority of entries were disappointing, concluding that the "new prize is capable of achieving a greater good than any other, but it must, without becoming quite as predictable as the Turner Prize... achieve next year a far higher level of distinction."<ref name="ES 2008" />

In 2009, almost half of the 80 final exhibits at the [[Mall Galleries]] were portrait paintings in a wide variety of styles.<ref name="FT 2009" />

By 2013, the number of exhibits had increased to 111, chosen from over 3,500 entries.<ref name="CLife 2013" />

== Prizes ==
In the first year of the competition, there was a single prize of £25,000. In 2010 the Visitors’ Choice Prize, worth £10,000, was introduced.<ref name="BBC 2010" /> The two major prizes available are the Threadneedle Prize and the Visitor’ Choice Prize. In 2012 the Threadneedle Prize was increased from £25,000 to £30,000 making it the largest prize for single work of art in the UK. For the Threadneedle Prize, a panel of selectors shortlist six works and then choose the winner of the £30,000 prize. Two finalists for the Visitors' Choice Prize are awarded £500. Each of the five finalists for the Threadneedle Prize receives £1,000. In 2013, there were eight prizes totalling £46,000.

Selectors have included artists, critics and curators [[Peter Randall-Page]], [[Ed Vaizey]], [[Michael Sandle]], [[Jock McFadyen]], [[Daphne Todd]], [[Richard Cork]] and [[Desmond Shawe-Taylor]].

In 2016, the £20,000 winner - ''Salt in Tea'' by Lewis Hazelwood-Horner - was also named the winner of the £10,000 Visitors' Choice Award.

Following the 2016 exhibition at Mall Galleries, London, selected works from the Prize toured to Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy.

==Prize winners==
;2018
Winner - [[Ana Schmidt]], ''Dead End''<ref>{{cite web |title=The Columbia Threadneedle Prize |url=https://columbiathreadneedleprize.mallgalleries.org.uk |access-date=2020-08-02}}</ref>
 Visitors' Choice - Emily Allchurch, ''Babel Britain''
;2016
Winner - Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, ''Salt in Tea''<ref>{{cite web |title=Press Release {{!}} Threadneedle Prize |website=columbiathreadneedleprize.com |url=http://columbiathreadneedleprize.com/page/3264/Press+Release |access-date=2017-04-26}}</ref>
 Visitors' Choice - Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, ''Salt in Tea''
;2014
Winner - [[Tina Jenkins]], ''Bed Head''<ref>{{cite web |title=The Threadneedle Prize |url=http://www.threadneedleprize.com/ |accessdate=30 January 2015}}</ref>
 Visitors' Choice - [[Ben Johnson (artist)|Ben Johnson]], ''Room of the Revolutionary''
;2013
Joint winner - [[Clare McCormack]], ''Dead Labour/Dead Labourer'' <ref name="CLife 2013" />
 Joint winner - [[Lisa Wright]], ''The Guilty's Gaze on the Innocent'' <ref name="CLife 2013" />
 Visitors' Choice - [[Conrad Engelhardt]], ''Aung San Suu Kyi'' <ref name="2013 Threadneedle Prize Artworks" />
;2012
Winner - [[Ben Greener]], ''My Feet'' <ref name="BBC 2012" />
 Visitors' Choice - [[Robert Truscott]], ''Defeat'' <ref name="BBC 2012" />
;2011
Winner - [[Henrietta Simson]], ''Bad Government'' <ref name="2011 Threadneedle">[http://www.threadneedleprize.com/page/3187/2011 2011], ThreadneedlePrize.com (archive). Retrieved 2013-10-16.</ref>
 Visitors' Choice - [[Nicholas McLeod (artist)|Nicholas McLeod]], ''Drained'' <ref name="2011 Threadneedle" />
;2010
Winner - [[Patricia Cain]], ''Building the Riverside Museum'' <ref name="Guardian 2010" />
 Visitors' Choice - [[Fionnuala Boyd]] and Les Evans, ''Clee Hill 2009'' <ref name="Guardian 2010" />
;2009
Winner - [[Sheila Wallis]]<ref name="BBC 2010" />
 Emerging Artist Prize - Aishan Yu <ref>{{cite news |date=19 September 2009|title=Sheila Wallis Wins the 25,000 Pound Threadneedle Prize |work=Art Daily |url=http://artdaily.com/news/33376/Sheila-Wallis-Wins-the-25-000-Pound-Threadneedle-Prize#.Um-8wlMXJUs |accessdate=2013-10-29}}</ref>
;2008
Winner - [[Nina Murdoch (artist)|Nina Murdoch]], ''Untitled'' <ref name="2008 Threadneedle">[http://www.threadneedleprize.com/page/3029/2008 2008], ThreadneedlePrize.com (archive). Retrieved 2013-10-16.</ref>
 Selectors' Choice - Tim Shaw, ''Tank on Fire'' <ref name="2008 Threadneedle" />

==Selectors==
'''2018'''

Pipa Stockdale, Jennifer McRae, [[Helen Pheby]], Lewis McNaught

'''2016'''

Emma Crichton-Miller, David Dawson, Dr Arturo Galansino, Dr Tim Knox

'''2014'''

John Martin, Kevin Francis Gray, Nancy Durrant, Whitney Hintz

'''2013'''

Tim Shaw, Barnaby Wright, Paul Benney, Laura Gascoigne

'''2012'''

Nicholas Usherwood, Peter Randall-Page, Christopher Riopelle

'''2011'''

Julie Lomax, Lisa Milroy, Godfrey Worsdale

'''2010'''

Dr Xavier Bray, David Rayson, Michael Sandle RA

'''2009'''

Jock McFadyen, Cathy Lomax, Michael Leonard, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Daphne Todd OBE, Nine Murdoch

'''2008'''

Richard Cork, Angela Flowers, Hew Locke, William Packer, Brian Sewell

==See also==

* [[List of European art awards]]

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="ES 2008">{{cite news |last=Sewell |first=Brian |date=12 September 2008 |title=Now for a real art prize |work=Evening Standard |place=London |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/arts/now-for-a-real-art-prize-6902331.html |accessdate=2014-02-09}}</ref>

<ref name="FT 2009">{{cite news |last=Wullschlager |first=Jackie |date=4 September 2009 |title=The Threadneedle award at the Mall Galleries |work=Financial Times |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e9c7d35a-98e3-11de-aa1b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2hvWp5in1 |accessdate=2013-10-16}}</ref>

<ref name="Guardian 2010">{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Mark |date=16 September 2010 |title=Threadneedle prize awarded for Clyde shipyard piece |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/sep/16/threadneedle-prize-clyde-shipyard |accessdate=2013-10-16}}</ref>

<ref name="CLife 2013">{{cite news |last=Lloyd |first=Kate |date=25 September 2013 |title=Mall Galleries host Threadneedle Prize 2013 |work=Country Life |url=http://www.countrylife.co.uk/culture/fineart/article/531558/Mall-Galleries-host-Threadneedle-Prize-2013.html |accessdate=2013-10-16}}</ref>

<ref name="2013 Threadneedle Prize Artworks">{{cite news |title=2013 Threadneedle Prize Artworks |url=http://threadneedleprize.com/page/3219/The+Artworks |accessdate=2014-01-17}}</ref>

<ref name="BBC 2010">{{cite news |date=23 July 2010 |title=Seven artists vie for £25,000 Threadneedle Prize |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10740948 |accessdate=2013-10-16}}</ref>

<ref name="BBC 2012">{{cite news |date=10 October 2012 |title=Threadneedle Prize: Foot sculpture wins £30,000 prize |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19894504 |accessdate=2013-10-16}}</ref>

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==External links==
*[http://www.threadneedleprize.com The Threadneedle Prize for painting and sculpture]

[[Category:British visual arts awards]]
[[Category:Awards established in 2008]]
[[Category:Figurative art]]
[[Category:Arts competitions]]

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