The Platform Graduate Award offers recent graduates from arts degree courses the opportunity to feature in a group exhibition and possibly move on to receive a cash award and a programme of mentoring

For Phoenix Art Space, exhibiting artists are selected through an open call and we’re pleased to announce the 2025 artists –

Ailbhe Callanan

Charlie Davies

Anna Kowal

Richard Matthews

Lucy Redstall

Charlotte Robinson

Join us for the preview of their exhibition on Friday 8 August, 6-8pm

Thank you to University of Brighton and East Sussex Community College for their support

The Platform Graduate Award is an initiative of CVANSE (Contemporary Visual Arts Network South East) and takes place at four leading arts venues in the Southeast: Phoenix Art Space in Brighton, Modern Art Oxford, Aspex in Portsmouth & Arts University Plymouth

The Platform Graduate Award is an initiative to support emerging graduate artistic talent to further their practice with an exhibition and professional development opportunities. Established in 2012, the award now provides a £500 bursary and 6-months of mentoring support to a cohort of four awardees, each of them an outstanding graduate from one of the university partners. The scheme focuses on artists in the first year after graduation; a critical time when the loss of the university support structure and financial pressures can test an artist’s dedication to their practice. Graduate exhibitions take place in Brighton, Oxford, Portsmouth and Plymouth. For the participating galleries, this is a way to keep in touch with the most promising emerging practice, and with higher education institutions. More broadly, the scheme aims to stimulate artist networks outside of London and encourage artists to stay in the region

Image (above) – Untitled 2025 by Richard Matthews

Image (left) – 0.1% by Anna Kowal