This year’s Studio Prize was judged by Victoria Miro, Melanie Gerlis, Hester Westley and Harriet Bridgeman.

Founded in 2017, the ACS Studio Prize returned for the ninth year to offer one student or recent graduate a £6,000 prize to help contribute to the cost of an artist’s studio in a UK city of their choice and the opportunity to take part in a group exhibition at Gurr Johns.

As the premium collecting society for the administration of the Artist’s Resale Right (ARR) and copyright, the Artists’ Collecting Society (ACS) realises how difficult it is for emerging artists to focus on their practice, especially after leaving university. The ACS Studio Prize was founded with this in mind.

Georgia Dymock is a London-based artist with a BSc in Anthropology from UCL and an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art. The painter has enjoyed solo shows with JD Malat Gallery and Gillian Jason Gallery, who now represent her. Dymock’s paintings have been featured in group shows in London, Dubai and Shanghai, and in many art fairs internationally. In 2024, Dymock was selected for New Contemporaries and was an Ingram Prize finalist. Her work can be found in private collections and at the Museum Inima de Paula, Brazil.

Dymock describes her work as ‘Utopian images of dystopian ruins – a space of chambers, trapdoors, and shifting terrains. My paintings present a vision of a utopia (or perhaps a dystopia?), populated by futuristic models. I draw on imagination and humour to reimagine myself and others through paint, creating scenes that exist in a liminal space – not quite external, but rooted in the subconscious.’

High-resolution images of each of the five finalists, along with captions for press use, are available here. Additional images and further information are available upon request.