The Converse/Dazed Emerging Artists Award 2013 in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery

Converse / Dazed & Confused Emerging Artists Award is now in its fourth year, with sights set on discovering the best new artists in the UK. The aim is simple: to support burgeoning talent at the moment that it needs it most. This year the exhibition will be held here, at the Londonewcastle Project Space and will comprise never-before-seen works created by the shortlisted artists specifically for the show, which will open to the public October 25th.

The winner will be the recipient of £5,000. This years shortlisted artists are: Joey Holder Ben Washington Adham Faramawy Faye Green Christian Newby

The shortlist was deliberated over by an esteemed judging panel: gallerist Sadie Coles, ICA curator Matt Williams, Turner Prize-nominated artist Paul Noble, arts journalist Miranda Sawyer, firstsite curator Michelle Cotton, Whitechapel Gallery curator Kirsty Ogg and Dazed & Confused visual arts editor Francesca Gavin. The award has a strong track record in discovering new artists: last year’s winner, RCA graduate Samara Scott, has had a busy and successful 2013 with solo shows at Sunday Painter and Almanac Projects, 2011 winner Richard Parry has exhibited at Bloomberg SPACE and 2010 winner Peter Ainsworth has worked with rhizome.org. It is not just the winner who benefits from the prize funds and the exposure– the Emerging Artists alumni also includes the now very successful Francesca Anfossi, Steve Bishop, Laura Buckley and Jess Flood-Paddock.