Jersey artist shortlisted for prestigious national art award - Jersey Evening Post
by Antonia Rubio · Jersey Evening PostPosted inNews
Jersey artist shortlisted for prestigious national art award
by Antonia Rubio 6 July 20263 July 2026
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A JERSEY artist has been shortlisted for a prestigious national art award, with two of their works selected for exhibition from around 1,500 entries.
Dr Adam Perchard has been named on the shortlist for the 2026 Hogarth Art Prize for their works English Ships and Leviathan, which will go on display alongside around 80 other shortlisted artworks at Hogarth’s House in Chiswick, London from 28 July to 6 September.
Open to UK-based artists at every stage of their careers, the competition welcomes work welcomes work in any wall-based medium. The winner will receive a £3,000 prize and a solo exhibition at Hogarth’s House, while visitors will also vote for a £500 Visitors’ Choice Award.
Dr Perchard’s shortlisted works form part of London Fluid, a forthcoming novel exploring queer, Black and immigrant communities in London across multiple time periods.
The book will feature nearly 500 original images created by the artists.
“The whole text is teeming with these original images of mine. I want it to feel a bit like a cross between a contemporary William Blake book and a spellbook,” they said.
The pieces were created using black oil paint applied to glass before being transferred by hand onto thin rice paper, using the back of a spoon instead of a traditional printing press – “not being able to afford my own printing press, I had to improvise,” Dr Perchard explained.
“The scribbly, energetic marks my spoon made during the transfer process have become an important part of the image.
“I am a self-taught artist, mainly making it all up as I go along in my little shed at the bottom of the garden.
“But I think there’s a strength to that. Not knowing the rules means you approach things from an unusual angle.”
The recognition carries personal significance because of its connection to William Hogarth, whose work Dr Perchard taught while lecturing at the University of York: “Hogarth has always been a big hero of mine. Like me, a writer as well as an artist, I love his capacity for bawdy, blistering satire as well as beauty.
“I chose these pieces to submit because I hoped there was something a bit Hogarthian in their subversive play with politics and power.
“If you had told that younger Adam that someday their artworks would hang in Hogarth’s actual house, they never would have believed you. It is a wonderful thing.”
While the overall winner has yet to be announced, Dr Perchard said being shortlisted was already an achievement in itself.
“Whatever happens, I am treating this as a win. To have been shortlisted out of 1,500 applicants and to have two of my pieces exhibited is an amazing honour.”
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