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.

The Chadwell Award will not run for the year starting October 2025 – September 2026.

Daniel Leyland has won the Chadwell Award 2024. His residency will start in October 2024 and finish at the end of September 2025. There will be no Chadwell Award for the year October 2025 – September 2026, the Chadwell Award is having a year off. Plans for the Chadwell Award after September 2026 are unclear at present. An announcement will be made on this web site in due course.