Each year the Royal Academy awards a number of prizes for outstanding works within the Summer Exhibition.

The prestigious £25,000 Wollaston Award has been won by Wolfgang Tillmans RA for his work Greifbar 1. Presented to the ‘most distinguished work’ in the exhibition, the award is one of the most significant art prizes awarded in the country.

Wolfgang Tillmans is one of the Royal Academy’s most recently elected Academicians and although he was elected in the category of painter, his work is primarily photographic. Greifbar 1 was created in the darkroom, without the use of a camera, using light and light sensitive paper. It is the first time that a photographic work has won the Wollaston Award.

The Judges for this year’s award were Mali Morris RA, Richard Cork and Alexandra Harris. The shortlisted artists included Marlene Dumas Hon RA, Sean Scully RA, Mick Moon RA, Charles Hewlings, Michael Craig-Martin RA and James Turrell Hon RA.

Arts Club Charitable Trust Award
£2,000 for a work in any medium by an artist under 35 years of age
Pauline Emond, Regarde De Tous Tes Yeux

Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture
£10,000 for a sculpture
Conrad Shawcross, Paradigm

Hugh Casson Drawing Prize
Prizes for original works on paper in any medium, where the emphasis is clearly on drawing.
£1000 to Barbara Sykes, Two People
£2500 to Sait Mingu, Bounce
£1000 to Michael Landy, All the Saint Catherine Wheels from the National Gallery Collection
£500 to Andy Drummer, New York

British Institution Awards
Four prizes of £1,000 each are awarded by the Trustees of the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the UK. Students entering paintings, works on paper, sculpture and architecture will be eligible for the awards.
Max Bolton, Promenade Study 05
Wuon-Gean, Unending Forest
Pauline Emond, Regarde De Tous Tes Yeux
Mark Whithorn, Family Portrait

The Sunny Dupree Family Award for Female Artist
Prize of £3,500 a painting or sculpture
Cathie Pilkington, Reclining Doll

London Original Print Fair Prize
Prize of £2,500 for a print in any medium
Katherine Jones, A Thaw

The Rose Award for Photography
£1,000 for a photograph or series of photographs.
Ackroyd and Harvey, Blaakow

Summer Exhibition 2014 is at the RA from 9 June - 17 August 2014.

Summer Exhibition is sponsored by Insight Investment