As a registered charity, the NEAC strives to support artists and champion quality figurative painting and drawing. You can help by becoming a Friend or making a donation. But what difference does that support make? Here's a closer look at the work it helps to achieve...
The NEAC Scholarships
The three annual art scholarships, worth £7,000 in total, are aimed at individuals who have not historically had many opportunities to engage with the NEAC and are intended to support those who face financial barriers in pursuing the arts professionally. In an art education landscape where many traditional art schools have pivoted away from practice and skills, these scholarships offer a rare opportunity to draw on the experience and expertise of some of the best painters in the country.
PRIZES & AWARDS
INCLUDING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY PRIZES
Every year at our Annual Exhibition, we award prizes worth in the region of £10,000. Notably, the NEAC Climate Emergency Prizes are about to enter their third year. After an extraordinary summer of heatwaves, wildfires, drought, and the devastating glacier collapse in Tibet, the sense of urgency continues to grow. We created this prize so our art is relevant to arguably the most important crisis humanity has ever faced. It also rewards brave artists who feel they must respond to this despite it not being the most commercial of subjects. We should support them and reward the best. But that requires new sponsorship to keep all these prizes going.
PAINTING FROM LIFE
A NEW OPEN ART COMPETITION FOR FIGURATIVE PAINTING BASED ON LOOKING AND OBSERVING THE WORLD AROUND US
Ever since the demise of the Threadneedle and Lynn Painter-Stainers Prizes, there has been a gap in the painting prize landscape for an award that reflects the values of the NEAC. We plan to put this right with a new open competition called “Painting From Life”. The judges will all be artists, including Peter Brown PPNEAC, Shani Rhys James MBE and Anne Desmet RA. The others are to be announced, but they will all be leading painters working closely from direct contact with the visual world. We are very excited about this new project but we urgently need sponsorship for its start-up costs and especially for its prizes.
HOW TO SUPPORT THE NEAC
Please consider supporting us with a donation or by signing up as a Friend. And if you are interested in sponsoring one of our prizes or initiatives outlined above, do get in touch.
Thank you,
Patrick Cullen, NEAC President
