Freelands Painting Prize 2025

This offsite exhibition at Greatorex (East London) presents the work of nine graduates selected from art schools across the UK.

Launched in 2020, the Freelands Painting Prize champions exceptional painting practice and teaching. Each year, we have invited every institution in the UK offering an undergraduate course in Fine Art or Painting to nominate a graduating student for the prize.
 
The programme offers an insight into the shifting status of painting and material experimentation within art departments, and serves as a celebration of the emerging artists keeping these spaces alive and thriving.

• Nahraine Al-Khafaji, Bath School of Art Film and Media, Bath Spa University
• Mariam Alsaadi, Aberystwyth University
• Danni Jo Barker, Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University
• Ruby Cascarina, Lancaster University
• Cain Casson, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Siddiq Hussain, University of Wolverhampton
• Alice Lane, City & Guilds of London Art School
• Siobhán Morrissey, Arts University Plymouth
• Elizabeth Omotosho, Leeds Beckett University 

• Wells Fray-Smith, Curator, Barbican
• Lewis Hammond, artist
• Andrew Pierre Hart, artist
• Emma Robertson, Co-owner, The Approach

Freelands Foundation is settling into a new building. As we do this, our events will be taking place offsite at host organisations. The Freelands Painting Prize exhibition and preview will be held at Greatorex. 

Address:
Greatorex
10 Greatorex Street
London E1 5NF

Accessibility:
For any enquiries related to access, please contact [email protected].

Opening times:
Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6pm

Exhibition preview:
2 October 2025, 6.30–8.30pm

This event is free and open to all. Please RSVP at this link.