UK &
International
Emerging Artist
Awards
Visual Art Open 2026 Sculpture Winner: Megumi Ohata
Artwork: Haori
Medium: Silicone, pigment, thread, foam, wood, acrylic rod, metal, rope
Dimensions: 190 x 15 cm (height variable)
Description: A kimono jacket made from artificial skin textiles cast from my own body, combining Yōkai folklore with posthuman thinking. Suspended installation elements evoke displacement, trauma and the feeling of having “no home,” turning the body’s surface into a fragmented archive of memory, culture and survival.
£9,000
Artwork: Empyreans
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 88 x 115 cm
Description: Empyreans captures the return of distant travellers to a forgotten home. Emerging from a celestial realm, they are drawn by ancient memory and quiet purpose, bridging the vast silence between what was and what must rise again.
£16,910
Visual Art Open 2026 Painting Winner: Maryam Deyhim
Artwork: Where it was
Medium: Pencil, graphite, acrylic on wood
Dimensions: 20 x 20 cm
Description: This work explores human presence at a moment of inner rupture. The face retains its form, yet ceases to function as a portrait, becoming a site of tension where vulnerability, silence, and resistance coexist.
£1,400
Visual Art Open 2026 Drawing & Illustration Winner: Viktoria Savenkova
Artwork: Mali: Conflicted
Medium: Map of Mali, giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl Paper
Dimensions: 30 x 30 inches, 20 x 20 inches
Description: Starting with a map of Mali, I created a sculpture to represent the impact of overlapping conflicts on the people there. The final artwork is a photograph, echoing the flatness of the original map while also providing a metaphor for suppressed narratives.
30 x 30 inches (edition of 6): £850 unframed, £1,150 framed
20 x 20 inches (edition of 8): £550 unframed, £800 framed
Visual Art Open 2026 Photography & Digital Art Winner: Linda Burris Webster
Visual Art Open 2026 Art Educator Winner: Duo Adma
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Artists: Mariano Paternoster and Adriana Giannini
Artwork: Sonitus
Medium: Digital video / audiovisual performance art (single-channel digital video, stereo sound)
Dimensions: Variable screening/projection setup, 16:9 video format
Description: “Sŏnĭtŭs” is an audiovisual performance exploring reality’s filter. A performer slowly sheds layers of clothing, inspired by Pistoletto’s Venus of the Rags, while a dense white noise undergoes a subtractive synthesis process. As the body reaches nakedness, the chaotic noise dissolves into pure harmonic tonality, revealing the essence of the self.
£1,500
Visual Art Open 2026 Student Artist Winner:
Yuxuan Wang
Artwork: Simbiosis
Medium: Chinese ink painting
Dimensions: 180 x 90 cm
Description: Artwork SYMBIOSIS aims to express the coexistence of human civilisation with nature and life. The space framed by geometric shapes is a metaphor for a space artificially confined, but humans are just one of the species that evolved on Earth, and we should coexist with all life on Earth.
£1,300
Visual Art Open 2026 Mixed Media, Collage & Printmaking Winner: Rayastre
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Artwork: THE DISTORTED ROOM (II)
Medium: Light object with taxidermy, dried flowers, water transferred etchings, radiograph, wax, oil paint, in antique frame with convex glass
Dimensions: 39 x 45 x 16 cm
Description: In the convex glass of my work is seen both the inner world and the outer world… The artwork behind the glass and the reflection of the room in which it’s situated… This combination gives both connection and estrangement. A work about mystery when you go past your own reflection...
£6,161.22
Artist: Jitrachote White
Artwork: May you always be surrounded by soft comforts
Medium: Oil on stretched linen
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm
Description: This painting captures a tender moment of my son sleeping peacefully, enveloped by the comforting presence of his beloved collection of soft toys. I wanted to convey a sense of warmth, security, and innocence, evoking the hope that these feelings will always accompany him.
£4,000