Congratulations to both David Rae and Edward Jones who have both been shortlisted for the Gilchrst-Fisher Award 2024. This is a notable achievement with previous winners of the prize including Peter Doig, Alasdair Wallace and Angela Hughes.
Available paintings by each of these artists can be viewed and acquired via their gallery pages:
View David Rae’s available work here
View Edward Jones’ available work here
History of the Gilchrist-Fisher Award.
The Gilchrist-Fisher Award was established in 1987. The award was established in memory of Alasdair Gilchrist-Fisher who died of cancer in December 1986 at the age of twenty-four.
“He was a remarkable young man whose wit, intelligence, enthusiasm and love of life won him many friends and presaged a great future. Soon after his illness was diagnosed he began a postgraduate art course, finding much joy in the discovery and exploration of landscape painting.”
To celebrate Alasdair’s life – and this particular connection, his friends raised a fund to establish the Gilchrist-Fisher Award.
The Award is a biennial prize, meaning it happens every two years. The award is open to all artists under the age of 30 whose work explores the broad theme of Landscape.
This is a very well-respected art award, just 6 artists have been shortlisted. The Financial Times described it as ‘remarkable and admirable’. Previous prize winners include Peter Doig, Alasdair Wallace and Angela Hughes.