Derwent Art Prize

The Cumberland Pencil Company is delighted to announce the inaugural exhibition of the Derwent Art Prize.

The exhibition of artworks selected through open submission, aims to reward excellence through showcasing the very best international works created in pencil and offers prizes of up to £8,750.
93 works by 80 international artists have been chosen for exhibition by the distinguished panel of selectors: Yvonne Crossley (Director of the The Drawing Gallery, Shropshire); Fisun Güner (journalist and freelance visual arts writer); and Professor Stephen Farthing RA (artist and Rootstein Hopkins Research Chair of Drawing at the University of the Arts, London).

The exhibition will open at the prestigious Mall Galleries, London from 16-21 September 2013. Following the London exhibition the show will tour to venues across the UK, including the Pencil Museum in Keswick, Cumbria.