The Chadwell Award provides a bridge between art school and practice as a professional artist by giving a recent Fine Art MA graduate a free studio in Bow, London for a year, together with a materials grant of £1,000. In addition, there will be a discretionary purchase grant of up to £4,000 to buy a work from the award holder at their end-of-award show.

Applications for the 2026 Chadwell Award will open in March 2026. The Award will be open to students graduating in the summer of 2026 from the following courses:

• Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools

• MA Painting, Royal College of Art

• MFA or MA in Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art

The Chadwell Award will provide a studio at Bow Arts for a year from October 2026 to September 2027.

Further information and a link to the application will be provided on this website in March 2026.