The winner of The Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize of £1,000 is Anne-Laure Cano for Ussade – 114, (2022). The winning piece is loosely based on Cano’s experiences as a foreigner in a new country and made with fragments from former pieces the artist broke and reassembled to create new ones. The clays used to make the work, as well as the dry elements to create the glazes and slips, are sourced from the UK, Spain and Iceland, feeding the reflection on identity and sense of belonging that this series – Ussade - explores.

The highly commended prize of £500, also generously given by James and Maylis Grand goes to Australian artist Ebony Russell whose hand-piped porcelain urns in blue stain, reminiscent of Wedgwood jasperware, are decorated with a profusion of white decorative bows and ribbons.

Dr Virginie Lerouge Knight is again generously supporting a £1,000 award for an artist who explores and embraces a cross-cultural awareness through their work. The winner is Egyptian hyperrealist artist Nourine Hammad who winning works Letter Zay in Arabic, Equivalent to Z in Latin (2021) and Nefertiti Postage Stamp (2021) blend the boundaries between reality and art using meticulous drawing techniques.

The Cockpit Prize, which is new for 2023 and awarded by Cockpit, goes to an artist working in the expanded field of craft, which includes mentoring and business support. The winner is London based Isis Dove-Edwin for her work Scorched by the sun of the worlds (2023) which explores the ethnographic object of a ‘traditional’ domestic coiled terracotta pot, communally made by women in West Africa, as a subject of decolonial making.

The Rudolph Blume Acquisition Prize goes to Zoe Moss for her work Look Mum my painting got into the Royal Academy (2020). Moss is predominantly a photo-realist painter and pop artist, and has, in the past, been shortlisted for the BP Portrait Prize and John Moores Painting Prize.

Paintings in Hospitals, the UK charity, awards £500 to an artist for their work which responds to a health and wellbeing theme. The winner is Dawn Beckles for We Did It (2023). Beckles is a self-taught artist who seeks to weave threads of memory, emotion and nostalgia into the fabric of her work.

Sadie Lee’s figurative painting Sandy Powell Done Up 1, (2021) also wins the People’s Choice Award for £500 which is sponsored by Brownhill Insurance Group.