The moment you’ve all been waiting for…
From an incredible pool of over 1,400 applicants, we are thrilled to reveal the shortlisted artists for The Hari Art Prize 2025, held in collaboration with A Space For Art.
Ranging from striking sculptures to captivating paintings, the shortlist celebrates a diverse array of artistic talent. Our esteemed panel of six judges faced the challenging task of narrowing down the selection from more than a thousand entries to just 20 exceptional artists.
Discover the full shortlist and explore their remarkable works below.
Anna Curzon Price (b.1999) is a London-based painter exploring the human body as a porous site of interaction between the interior self and external reality.
Anna graduated from the Slade with an MA in Painting in 2025, having previously studied at the Essential School For Painting and the University of Cambridge. She has won the Ivan Juritz Prize for Image (2025), the Cass Art Slade Painting Award (2025) and the Richard Ford Award (2024).
Beth McAlester is a Northern Irish artist based in London, England, exploring themes of identity, commemoration, and place. Through her paintings on wood, she examines semi-biographical narratives grounded by post-Troubles contexts within the UK and Ireland.
She attained her BFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2022-2025) and is going on to pursue her Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Royal Academy Schools (2025-2028).
Brianna Lois Parker (b.1998) is a Caribbean-British oil painter whose practice explores themes of memory, identity, and everyday life. Through oil paintings Parker creates intimate, symbolic, and culturally resonant portraits that centre diasporic narratives and intergenerational connection.
She holds a First-Class Honours degree in Fine Art (BA) from Kingston University, awarded in 2021. The artist is currently based in London, where she lives and works.
Cassie Vaughan lives and works in London. She completed a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and is a recent graduate from the MA Painting program at the Royal College of Art. Vaughan uses drawing and painting to explore elements of environmental and emotional collapse, solastalgia and imagined future landscapes.
Her methodology is to build a reciprocal relationship with painting, beginning each work with instinctive marks that
come to suggest landscapes, working intuitively and helping to achieve balance with a light touch.
Celia Mora studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, followed by an Erasmus placement at the University of the Arts London. She completed her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Arts in 2023 and continued her studies at Turps Art School in 2024.
Her work has been supported by the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant in 2023 and 2024. Mora’s work has been exhibited widely in shows, including Contemporary British Portrait Painters at The Department Store, Vessels with OHSH Projects, Art on a Postcard at Bow Arts, The Eve Principle at Norito Gallery, Startled at Lychee One Gallery, Crème Fraîche at ICA Museum, Unladylike at D-Contemporary, and Figurativas at MEAM, Barcelona.
Claudia Pons Bohman (b.1999) is an Ecuadorian Swedish artist. Deeply connected to nature, she often incorporates it as a central element in her paintings. Her creative process is sparked by specific places, thoughts, or dreams that capture her imagination and refuse to fade. Through her work, she explores themes of spirituality, memory, and the passage of time.
Claudia graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2024. Her most important exhibitions include a solo show The Swimmer at Sotheby’s, Stockholm; the group exhibition Landscape Today at Messums (2024); a solo show Messengers of Paradise at Materna y Herencia, Madrid; and a duo show at Gallery Tönheim, Madrid.
Damien Cifelli is an artist from Edinburgh, Scotland. He recently completed his MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2025 and has exhibited internationally at galleries including Whitechapel Gallery and Saatchi Gallery, with solo shows at Spinello Projects, Moosey Gallery, Pulpo, Liminal Gallery, and Edinburgh Art Festival.
He was shortlisted for the East London Art Prize, UK New Artists Award, Cass Art Prize and Delphian Open Call and won the Thyssen Versiona award.
Elinor Haynes is a French-Australian multimedia artist based in London. She graduated from the MFA program at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2023. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has earned her recognition including the Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize (2023) and the Royal Society of Sculptors’ Gilbert Bayes Award (2024).
Emily Hoyle (b.2002) is an emerging British artist currently dividing her time between the United Kingdom and the United States. Growing up in the rural English countryside, she developed a lasting sensitivity to seasonal rhythms and the ancient partnership between people and animals.
Working alongside horses, sheep, and dogs instilled in her a deep awareness of the cycles of life — themes that continue to inform her use of animals as vessels of symbolic and iconographic meaning.
Franklin Collins is a British / South Korean Artist based in London. Born in Cambridge, 2000. Collins graduated from a Fine art BA degree at Central St Martins in 2025. His practice, primarily sculptural, looks at the relationship between mind and material.
What aspects we tend to appreciate in the physical world, how they can be altered or highlighted, and the overall interaction however minute or massive, we have with the physical matter that surrounds our lives.
Grace Mcnerney (b. 2001, Harrogate) is a London based painter. Mcnerney graduated Chelsea College of Arts in 2023. Grace’s paintings are a pursuit through the liminal and the mundane in search of the sex, religion, and death that are so foundational to popular culture.
Grace’s oil paintings are often inspired by charity shop discoveries – vinyl covers, old magazines, recipe books.
Katie Tomlinson (b. 1996, Tees Valley) is a painter based in Manchester. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2021–2023), where she was supported by the Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award.
Recent solo exhibitions include Fantasy Girls (2024) at Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK; They Only Want You When You’re Seventeen (2024) at LKIF, Seoul, South Korea; At Least Buy Me Dinner First (2023) at Brooke Benington, London, UK; and Fight The Moon (2022) at Paradise Works, Manchester, UK.
Laura Kazaroff (b.1993) is a London based artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2023 she graduated from the MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, previously having completed a BA Fashion Design at the School of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (FADU) at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She was selected to be part of New contemporaries 2024, showing in Plymouth, and the ICA in London.
Magdalena Gluszak-Holeksa (b. 1990) is a Polish painter and a graphic designer, who currently lives and works in UK. She grew up in the Silesian Beskids Mountain range in the South of Poland. Throughout her practice, she draws on changing memories of the landscape surrounding her home as a metaphor for metamorphosis and as a way of building a visual language where human loss and natural cycles coexist.
At the core of her process is her interest in depth psychology and how inherited belief systems and emotions form a non-verbal language within the unconscious, influencing both self-perception and our sense of belonging.
Born in China, raised in New Zealand, Monica’s creative journey is shaped by a rich, multicultural background. After a successful career in corporate finance, she dedicated herself to art, studying in the US and the UK. She obtained her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2021. As a multi-media artist, she creates works that bridge Eastern and Western philosophies, inviting viewers to engage with her art on a personal level.
Her work has been widely exhibited and collected across the US, New Zealand, China, Europe, and the UK. Monica also actively engages with the community, teaching art for social engagement, including art for dementia, and has translated the book Porcelain.
Rita Osipova is a multidisciplinary artist and curator who resides and creates between Rotterdam and London. Her artistic practice spans a wide range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, photography, painting, and poetry.
Drawing inspiration from the philosophy of information, Osipova explores how digitalisation influences the human brain, emotions, and perception. Merging scientific insights with a poetic visual language, she constructs layered narratives that evoke intense, visceral experiences. Her immersive installations and sculptures document the ongoing social and emotional transformations shaped by digital culture.
Rodrigues Gonçalves (b.2000, Madeira Island) is a London-based artist whose work explores how systems of power are staged and sustained. Blending satire with the absurd, he examines the aesthetics of authority through ritual, architecture, and historical iconography, shaping a visual liturgy that questions how belief and desire are constructed.
Educated at the Royal College of Art and the UK National Glass Centre, his work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, Camden Art Centre, and the National Glass Centre. He was awarded the Public Choice UK New Artist of the Year (2022) at Saatchi Gallery and The Glass Prize (2021).
Susanne Baumann (b. 1982, Germany) is a London-based artist whose work reflects on memory, loss and the fragile traces of human presence. Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her father’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease, inspiring her to explore how idenity slowly erodes and yet persist in echoes.
Baumann’s paintings and drawings evoke the quiet remnants of memory – interior scenes, ordinary objects, and captured moments that resonate beyond the visible. She sees absence not as a void but as a presence in itself, lingering in shadows and reflections. Her paintings transform everyday spaces into quiet sites of memory and longing, inviting viewers to reflect on the fragile connections that remain.
Tinaye Makuyana (b. 2000, Harare, Zimbabwe) is a paper sculptor based in the United Kingdom. She began creating her signature paper sculptures while pursuing a BFA at Loughborough University. She is currently the Solo Resident Artist at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop in London, where she will present her debut solo exhibition in October 2025.
She received the Right of Discipline grant from the Antipode Foundation, and her sculpture, Lifeline (2024), will be installed and added to Loughborough University’s permanent collection.
Wink K. Moe (b. 2000, Mandalay, Myanmar) is an artist whose practice spans painting, ceramics, and aerial performance, forming an inquiry into the politics of perception and the instability of identity. Of Chinese-Korean heritage and raised in Singapore, Wink’s transnational experience informs her interest in thresholds, diasporic memory, and the sites where the visible and invisible collide.
She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, graduating with First Class Honours. Wink’s work has been presented at Saatchi Gallery, the Chelsea Flower Show, and independent project spaces in London and Taiwan.
Building on the success of The Hari’s ongoing art initiatives championing emerging talent, we are delighted to announce that the winner of The Hari Art Prize 2025 will receive a £10,000 cash prize, generously donated by our CEO and Chairman, Dr. Aron Harilela. The award will be presented at an exclusive Awards Evening at The Hari on 18 November 2025.
Second and third place winners will also be announced on the night, receiving £3,000 and £1,000 respectively, with their works to be proudly exhibited within the hotel’s public spaces.
Keep your eyes peeled for the finalists!
