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Pauline Mercier Award 2025
The assessor for the Pauline Mercier Award for 2025 was Dr. Hannah Lyons, Curator of University Art Collections, University of Reading.
Winner
2025
Collection of Limestone Sculptures
Limestone
Roger Smalley
Assessor: Dr. Hannah Lyons
Congratulations to Roger Smalley winner of the 2025 Pauline Mercier Award for his collection of limestone sculptures.
Hannah said about the winning 3D artworks “I have admired Roger’s limestone sculptures for a long time, and so tonight’s collection of 9 just caught my eye as soon as I came in here. I love the way he is able to manipulate the limestone into distinct forms, from human figures to more Modernist, geometric constructions.”
Hannah awarded Paul Whitehouse Highly Commended for his experimental piece “Composite I”, where he has used teak from Brunel’s SS Great Britain as a base, onto which is his familiar English alabaster.
Highly Commended
Marie Dyson Award 2025
The assessor for the Marie Dyson Award for 2025 was Dr. Hannah Lyons, Curator of University Art Collections, University of Reading.
Winner
2025
Evelyn Sleeping
Graphite on paper
Antoinette Brown
Assessor: Dr Hannah Lyons
2025
‘Evelyn Sleeping’ and other works
Graphite on paper
Antoinette Brown
Assessor: Dr Hannah Lyons
Congratulations to Antoinette Brown winner of the 2025 Marie Dyson Award for her collection of graphite drawings.
Hannah said about the winning work “Museums and galleries are full of paintings and sculptures of mothers. However, art which communicates the actual experience of motherhood is much rarer. I think Antoinette has done an incredible job of articulating the unspoken aspects of motherhood in these incredible sensitive drawings”
Highly Commended
Hannah also gave a special mention to Kit Yan Chong for her innovative, kinetic drawings and Sri Nambiar for her highly evocative and atmospheric charcoal landscapes.
Highly Commended 2025
The Lines, The Grids and Everything 03
Graphite and pastel on paper
Kit Yan Chong
Highly Commended 2025
The Lines, The Grids and Everything 05
Graphite and pastel on paper
Kit Yan Chong
Highly Commended 2025
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Graphite and pastel on paper
Kit Yan Chong
Highly Commended 2025
The Lines, The Grids and Everything 04
Graphite and pastel on paper
Kit Yan Chong
Highly Commended 2025
Wrath
Charcoal
Sri Nambiar
Highly Commended 2025
Expanse
Charcoal
Sri Nambiar
Highly Commended 2025
Breaking Light I
Charcoal
Sri Nambiar
Pauline Mercier Award 2024
The assessor for the 2024 Pauline Mercier Award was Curatorial Researcher and Cultural Strategist, Dr Loucia Manopoulou.
Winner
2024
Ceramic construction
Ceramic
Martin Andrews
Assessor: Dr Loucia Manopoulou
Congratulations to Martin Andrews winner of the 2024 Pauline Mercier Award for 2024.
Highly Commended
Works by Jan Bastow, Sadie Brockbank, Lou Jessop and Shirley Smith were highly commended.
Marie Dyson Award 2024
The assessor for the Marie Dyson Award 2024 was Curatorial Researcher and Cultural Strategist, Dr Loucia Manopoulou.
Winner
2024
Oscar’s Separate Hell
Mixed Media
Linda Saul
Assessor: Dr Loucia Manopoulou
Congratulations to Linda Saul winner of the 2024 Marie Dyson Award for Oscar’s Separate Hell.
Highly Commended
Works by Martin Andrews, Cath Baldwin, Tom Cartmill and Sri Nambiar were highly commended.
Small Works 23
Once again we had a small works exhibition at the Turbine House at the Riverside Museum with 54 artists participating. The exhibition was beautifully hung by exhibitions secretary Trish Roberts assisted by Heather McAteer.
Thanks to Martina Hildebrandt for the photographs.
92nd Annual Exhibition – Continuum
After many months of work by the RGA Exhibitions Team, RGA Council, and RGA members, the 92nd Annual Exhibition – Continuum at the Old Fire Station Gallery in Henley opened on 21st July 2023. Over 140 artworks by RGA exhibiting members are on display. A private view held on Friday evening was attended by many RGA members, families, and friends at which the winners of the Marie Dyson and Pauline Mercier Awards were announced by this year’s assessor Dr Hannah Lyons. Congratulations to the winners Jenny Halstead and Shirley Smith. The exhibition is open daily 10 am – 4 pm until 1st August.
As well as the work displayed inside the gallery, there is a virtual gallery outside the Old Fire Station using augmented reality that can be viewed using your phone using the URL henleyfirestation.walls.ar. Thank you to whizwall.com for setting this up.
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