Hermione Hammond Drawing Award

About

The Award was established in 2012 in memory of the artist Hermione Hammond to encourage artists to develop their drawing skills. It is now run in conjunction with Mall Galleries. This year 674 entries came from 74 colleges in Britain and Ireland.  The exhibition will feature the work of 14 student artists.

Gideon Summerfield, studying at the Royal Drawing School, won the first prize of £4,000 for his pencil portrait of the British immunologist Dr William Frankland MBE, who popularised the Pollen Count in weather reports. Runner Up, Rebeka-Louise Lee, studying at Canterbury Christ Church University, won Cass Art vouchers worth £250 for her sketchbook series Journal of Places I Visit which includes drawings of the inside of a bus, the kitchen, coffee shops and the print room at college. 

The exhibiting artists are:

Annie Clough-Hillman, Wimbledon College of Art

Immie Dungate, Anglia Ruskin University

Willa Hilditch, Chelsea College of Art

Sung-Kook Kim, Royal College of Art

Jonathan Koetsier, Falmouth University

Rebeka-Louise Lee, Canterbury Christ Church University (Runner Up)

Anna Menshenina, University of Westminster

Elizabeth Monahan, Norwich University of the Arts

Tyler Reed, Camberwell College of Arts

Gideon Summerfield, Royal Drawing School (Winner)

Stefan Tiburcio, Royal Drawing School

Haoxuan Wei, Royal College of Art

Colette Williams, Falmouth University

Scott Williams, Gower College