RSA William Littlejohn Award: Deadline has passed for 2024, judging underway

  • About

    Lindsay Sekulowicz, Jogo

    About

    The RSA William Littlejohn Award (£2000) for Excellence and Innovation in Water-based Media, funded by The William Littlejohn Bequest and administered by the Royal Scottish Academy, consists of:

    • A monetary award to research, develop and produce a new body of work in a water-based medium
    • An exhibition of selected completed work at the Royal Scottish Academy at a future date
    • Acquisition of work into the Royal Scottish Academy's Collection, a Recognised Collection of National Significance. 
  • Eligibility

    Sarah Casey, Ice Watch, glacial flour watercolour on glass watch face, 2023

    Eligibility

    • Entrants must be working in water-based media (any pigment mixed with water).
    • Entrants must either be born in Scotland or have been resident in Scotland for at least 3 years.
    • In the case of students applying, entrants must either be graduating in 2024 or currently studying at postgraduate level at one of the following art schools in Scotland - Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, Duncan of Jordanstone Collage of Art, Dundee, Edinburgh Collage of Art, Glasgow School of Art, and University of the Highlands and Islands.
    • For full Conditions of Entry and to apply click below.

     

    How to apply

    Application deadline has passed for 2024. Please check back in Spring 2025 for the next round of applications. 

     

    We are pleased to announce Sarah Casey is the winner of the 2024 William Littlejohn Award. Sarah plans to use the award to explore the potential of print, using inks pigmented with glacial flour gathered at post glacial sites in Switzerland and Scotland.


     
  • Previous Winners

    Kyle Noble, Meditations from the Malachite Glen

    Previous Winners

    • Sarah Casey, 2024
    • Lindsay Sekulowicz, 2023
    • Rosalind Lawless, 2022
    • Samantha Clark, 2021
    • John Brown, 2020
    • Sam Drake, 2019
    • Amy Dennis, 2018
    • Alasdair Wallace, 2017
    • Frances Rokhlin, 2016
    • Catherine Ross, 2015
    • John Kellock, 2014
    • Kyle Noble, 2013
    • Anne Murray, 2012
    • Paul Westcombe, 2011
    • Jean Duncan, 2010
    • Laura Sutherland, 2009

     

    Banner image: Sarah Casey, Ablations (Mont Mine), risograph with gold ink on paper

  • Return to Opportunities
  • John Kellock, Hands, 2016 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Paul Westcombe, Just Reciepts (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Anne Murray, The Change in the Wind is Coming (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jean Duncan, From the Fertile Crescent (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Kyle Noble, Balgorkar (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Alasdair Wallace, Prospect Easy, etching (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Samantha Clark, From Yesnaby (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    John Kellock, Hands, 2016