THE JOHN RUSKIN PRIZE | HISTORY & LEGACY

Seeing the Unseen, Hearing the Unspoken | The 6th John Ruskin Prize

The John Ruskin Prize is a multi-disciplinary art prize in the UK. With the values of the radical C19th polymath John Ruskin at its core, the Ruskin Prize has a growing reputation for supporting and promoting artists, designers and makers whose work defies easy categorisation.

The Prize was inaugurated in 2012 by The Guild of St. George and visual literacy charity, The Big Draw. Organised and delivered by The Big Draw, the prize aims to reflect a central thread of John Ruskin’s thought; as a writer and artist - and as an impassioned critic, not only of art but of society and life - he believed that art has the power to reveal and celebrate universal truths, and that a good artist and maker in any medium should always be guided by that search.