UK &
International
Emerging Artist
Awards
Visual Art Open 2025 Overall Winner, Sculpture Category!
Congratulations to Li Hao
Artwork: Pop Star
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Medium: Metal, Glass, PVC, LED
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Dimensions: 1500 x 1500 x 1500cm
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Description: The installation "POP STAR" explores the limits of human perception through a massive icosahedral structure inspired by compound eyes. Viewers experience contrasting emotions - maternal calm inside, oppressive dominance outside - symbolising the paradox of perception, where vision blurs reality, embodying transcendentalist ideas of boundless, instinctual power.
£150,000
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Artwork: A 9JA Delta Speculative Future
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Medium: Acrylic and Pastel
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Dimensions: 91 x 121cm
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Description: A painting of a Utopian Niger-Delta. An alternate or healed region without the plagued and crippled social, economic, and ecological landscape. It delves into a reflection of a surreal vision expressing a proposed external projection from the internal. It is a wish, a dream or perhaps one day a reality
£8000
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Visual Art Open 2025 Painting, Mixed Media & Printmaking Winner!
Congratulations to Chiedu Okonta
Artwork: Sankofa: The Future Lingers in the Past
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Medium: Graphite, Carbon and Charcoal on Heritage Paper
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Dimensions: 130 x 100 cm
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Description: The work is inspired by the Adinkra symbol, Sankofa. Adinkra are representations of concepts, aphorisms and philosophies of cultural significance to the Akan people. Sankofa translates as “going back to pick up something” and highlights the importance of learning from the past to forge a better future.
£6800
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Visual Art Open 2025 Drawing & Illustration Winner!
Congratulations to Samuel Owusu Achiaw
Artwork: Enclosed
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Medium: Photography | Ball-Jointed Doll (BJD), Miniature Props, Natural Light
Textured Print on Permalite Cabo Fine Art Paper
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Dimensions: 41 x 51 cm
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Description: This piece draws inspiration from the surreal beauty of dreams and the evocative compositions of old master paintings. Using a BallJointed Doll (BJD) as a proxy for the human figure, the work redefines identity, vulnerability, and the delicate relationship we share with our environment.
£381
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Visual Art Open 2025 Photography & Digital Art Winner!
Congratulations to Jane Oliveira
Visual Art Open 2025 Art Educator Winner!
Congratulations to Francesca Busca
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Artwork: Ping (The Ping of a Pin on a Pebble in a Pond)
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Medium: 100% Waste: Hundreds of Used Hairdresser’s Foils
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Dimensions: 76 x 76 cm
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Description: Visually reproducing the sound and vibrations obtained by the fall of a metal object on a hard surface under water, like a pin in a pool. Part of my experimental series on trying to make the viewers empathise with our waters, understand they are a part of the same ecosystem
£1250
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Visual Art Open 2025 Student Artist Winner!
Congratulations to Yixue Yang
Artwork: Eternal Flux: The Dao of Becoming
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Medium: Porcelain & Glazes
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Dimensions: 80 x 20 17cm
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Description: This artwork series embodies Laozi's Daoist philosophy of "Wu" (non-being) as the universe's origin. The colourful glaze symbolizes "Wu's" vagueness, while flowing white folds represent the dynamic transformation of Qi, illustrating the evolution from "Wu" to "You" (being) and emphasizing constant change and eternal evolution.
£1500
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