Valerie Beston Artists’ Trust Award

Each year one student from the RCA is awarded a Valerie Beston Artists’ Trust Award.

The VBAT prize is made up of four main elements which are a SPACE studio for one year, a cash prize of £2,000 towards materials, an exhibition at the end of the year and support from a RCA tutor.

The VBAT awarded its first Valerie Beston Young Artists’ Prize in 2007. Former prize winners include:

• José Jun Martínez, 2024
• Edmond Brooks-Beckman / Jhonatan Pulido, 2023
• Emma Prempeh, 2022
  
• Catherine Repko, 2021
• Emily Moore, 2020
• Corsin Billeter, 2019
• Tahmina Negmat, 2018
• Seeun Kim, 2017
• Seung Ae Lee, 2016
• David Cyrus Smith, 2015
• Jonathan Lux, 2014
• Katrin Koskaru, 2013
• Matthew La Croix, 2012
• Nicholas Pankhurst, 2011
• Gareth Cadwallader, 2010
• Caroline Walker, 2009
• Lydia Gifford, 2008
• Laura Oldfield-Ford, 2007