Vanguard Court Studios Residency Prize

Studio Residency October 2025-26

Vanguard Court in partnership with Camberwell College of Arts is offering a Camberwell Fine Art graduate (BA or MA graduating 2025) or recent Camberwell Fine Art alumni (graduates from 2022, 2023, 2024) a 12-month rent-free studio.

In addition to the studio, Camberwell will provide up to 100 hours negotiated access to the College resources.

The prize culminates with a solo exhibition of work at Camberwell College of Arts.

The Public Engagement team will support the recipient with the production of the exhibition and a programme of student and public activity that sits alongside it.

An artist fee and production budget will be provided as part of the exhibition offering after your time at Vanguard.

Application deadline

9 June 2025

Submit your application

By email to Daniel Sturgis - d.sturgis@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

Proposal

The proposal must include:

• full name and contact details (phone and email) at the top of the written document.
• 500 words max.
• no more than 12 images.
• your CV.

Guidelines

• submit 1 printable PDF document with all the relevant information.
• describe what your practice is, its context and your ambitions? (be concise and clear)
• how do you plan to use the studio? (the making process)
• how would the use of a studio benefit your practice?
• are there particular resources of the College you would hope to make use of within the 100 hours negotiated access offered?

Eligibility

You must be:

• either a Fine Art student graduating from Camberwell in 2025 or a recent Fine Art alumni graduating from 2022, 2023 or 2024.
• able to start the studio residency in October 2025.
• eligible to remain in the UK for the 12-month period of the award.

The studios

Vanguard Court Studios are in a mews directly opposite the College. For the last 30 years they have housed a vibrant community of artists and craftspeople. They specialise in high quality fine art, design and crafts.

Studio-holders include ceramicists, jewellers, stained glass and textile artists, photographers, painters, sculptors and creators of other process-led work. There are several internationally established artists and makers in the yard.

The prize winner will have use of a self-contained studio with access to a sink and free wifi, other bills (electricity) are not included.

The prize

The Vanguard Prize allows Vanguard Court to help new artists grow and develop and reinforces Vanguard's strong links with Camberwell College of Arts.

The residency was previously awarded to Murray O’Grady (BA Fine Art: Sculpture 2010), Philip Li (BA Ceramics 2011), Phillip Booth (BA Fine Art: Painting 2012), Lauren Allen (BA Fine Art: Painting 2013), Alex Deveraux (BA Fine Art: Sculpture 2014), Queenie Clarke (BA Fine Art: Drawing 2015), Billy Crosby (BA Fine Art: Painting 2016), Rosie Ward (BA Fine Art: Sculpture 2017), Gwendolyn Spink (BA Fine Art: Drawing 2018), Isobel Finlay (BA Fine Art: Drawing 2019), Niccolo Binda (BA Fine Art: Drawing 2020), Amir Dehghan (BA Fine Art: Photography 2021), Robin Pickering (BA Fine Art: Painting 2022), Stella Pearce (BA Fine Art: Painting 2021) and Helena Samarasinghe (BA Fine Art: Drawing 2023).