- 4th MAR 2025
Submissions Open - 13th MAY 2025
Sumbissions close midday - 15th - 17th JULY 2025
All entrants, Longlist & Shortlist notified - 23rd OCT 2025
Prize Winners announced at Private View - 24th OCT - 1st NOV 2025
Copeland Gallery show open - 10th NOV 2025
People's Choice Award winner announced - SPRING 2026
Winner's stand at The Other Art Fair
Artist DAVID MACH, Founding Director of Soho Revue INDIA ROSE JAMES, Artist ISHBEL MYERSCOUGH, Artist MICHAELA YEARWOOD-DAN, Artist & Director of The Bomb Factory PALLAS CITROEN, Curator, Cultural Producer and TV Personality RYAN LANJI, and Times Radio Arts & Culture Producer TIM ALLEN.
CASS ART
Cass Art is a leading art supplies retailer where customers can shop online or in 14 stores across the UK, browsing more than 20,000 products from the world’s best art brands. Committed to its manifesto of ‘Let’s fill this town with artists’, Cass Art is on a mission to make good quality art materials accessible and affordable to everyone, aged 3-103, beginner or professional. The brand supports artists through bursaries, prizes and sponsorships, working with the Mayor of London, Sky Arts, National Saturday Club as well as universities and societies across the UK.
SAA
SAA (Supporting All Artists) is the UK’s largest Art Club with 30,000+ members. Recently acquired to form part of the wider Cass Group, SAA offers various membership options covering a magazine, exclusive offers on products on top art brands, online art classes and knowledge hub as well as artists insurance. There’s something for everyone within SAA’s creative community, from hesitant beginner to professional artist.
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THE OTHER ART FAIR
The Other Art Fair is a global art fair that connects independent artists with thousands of art buyers in a welcoming and creative environment. Set against the backdrop of the world's biggest cities, each Fair delivers the unexpected, combining access to boundary-pushing yet always-affordable artworks with immersive installations, performances, and unique features. With three editions in London, the result is an inspiring, evocative, inclusive, and fun event that creates lasting connections between artists and art lovers. Since its launch in 2011, The Other Art Fair has worked with over 4,000 artists from more than 20 countries and now hosts 11 fairs annually across the UK, the US, and Australia.
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ZEALOUS
Zealous empowers organisations to streamlines their awards, competitions, grants, residencies and more. This unique online submissions platform lets you create forms, gather applications, evaluate entries, and communicate with all participants effortlessly. Zealous is more than a service; reinvesting some of their profits into supporting the creative industries.
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COPELAND GALLERY
Located minutes from Peckham Rye Station at the heart of Copeland Park, Copeland Gallery is a landmark within Peckham's cultural quarter. Providing a supportive platform for emerging artists since 2013, the gallery has played a key role in the rise of Peckham’s art scene, housing hundreds of exhibitions, fashion shows, and workshops. Global brands, cutting edge artists, large filming productions as well as student exhibitions have all graced Copeland Gallery's walls.
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SOHO REVUE
Soho Revue, founded in 2019 by India Rose James, is a contemporary art gallery located in the heart of Soho showcasing emerging artists at the vanguard of contemporary art. Soho Revue is committed to working with those who have traditionally been denied equity in the arts, and therefore prioritises a programme which promotes emerging female artists amongst other historically under-represented groups.
CONTEMPORARY ART ACADEMY
Contemporary Art Academy provides premium online courses for artists at all stages in their careers for affordable prices. DEVELOPMENT (PG) courses are for artists who maintain a studio practice and want to advance their practical, critical and professional capabilities. DISCOVERY courses are for all artists looking to explore the creative process and develop new ways of making and thinking. INSTRUCTIONAL LIVE courses are for all artists wishing to learn or develop technical skills.
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Who can enter The Cass Art Prize?
The prize is open to all artists of all abilities based in the UK & the Republic of Ireland aged 18+.
What can I enter?
We are accepting all forms of 2D & 3D artworks made using analogue materials. We are not accepting photography, videography, sound art, performance art, architectural designs, NFTs, fully digital and AI artworks. Artworks must have been created since 1st March 2022. Artworks which have previously won prizes or awards may not be submitted. See the ‘Eligibility’ section for other restrictions.
How many works can I submit?
Artists may enter up to 4 artworks.
How should I photograph my work?
Take a high-resolution photo of your work in good lighting, with no shadows falling across it, and tightly crop the photograph to the work. Upload your submission images as Jpegs, Jpgs or PNGs (we suggest between 3MB-8MB). Please do not include the frame in the photograph, unless it is integral to the work. Ensure images are free of copyright stamps or watermarks. Read our blog for more tips on photographing your work. Please note, if the photograph is not a true representation of the original work, we reserve the right to exclude the work from the competition.
When will I hear the results?
All entrants will be emailed between 15th – 17th July 2025 to be informed if they have been Shortlisted, Longlisted or unsuccessful. Please ensure you have subscribed to the Cass Art Newsletter for updates and mark cassartprize@cassart.co.uk as a safe email address and add it to your list of allowed senders. If you haven’t received an email from Cass Art or The Cass Art Prize by the end of day on 17th July 2025, please check your junk and promotional or contact cassartprize@cassart.co.uk. A list of Longlisted and Shortlisted entrants will also be published at cassart.co.uk/thecassartprize on 15th July 2025.
For any complex questions not covered by our FAQs please contact cassartprize@cassart.co.uk.
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