LONDON.- The British Antique Dealers’ Association announced the four judges for the 2025 BADA Art Prize.

Now in its fifth year, the BADA Art Prize seeks to promote “the antiques of tomorrow” by awarding a £1,000 grant to an emerging contemporary artist whose work exemplifies the enduring ingenuity and quality illustrated by our members’ objects. The winner will be announced at a VIP reception in St James’s, London in November 2025.

Quoting Louise Phillips, Chairman, ‘when I suggested the idea of designing a work of art for tomorrow, in the hope of helping to promote contemporary and emerging artists, I never thought we would be supported by such esteemed people from the world of art, antiques and collectors. The panel has been headed in the past by Alain Dominique Perrin, Founder and President of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art and has been joined by judges including Anish Kapoor, Jenny Saville, Guy Taplin, Jools Holland. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the judges for giving their time so generously to the project.’

This year the panel will include Will Gompertz, former BBC Arts Editor, author and currently Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum. He has been a director of the Tate Galleries, London and lectured widely on the arts and creativity, including at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Picasso Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.

Textile and pattern designer Neisha Crosland, who in 2016, was awarded a Royal Designer for Industry Distinction and whose work is present in the V&A. Her first exhibition A Portrait of Pattern was held at the Afridi Gallery in November 2019. Musa Okwonga, an award winning author whose work explores culture, society and politics. He studied law at Oxford and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Paul Springer, Professor of Communication for the University of the Arts, London brings his longstanding experience of arts education. He has worked for the National Arts Library’s Special Collections and the London Design Museum, and is a Dean of Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges of Art.