The QSPA Inspirational Award is awarded a Nordic artist who is currently pursuing, or has recently completed, his or her art education, and whose artistic practice makes active use of printmaking as an important means of expression. The grant is a collaboration between master printer Bill Goldston at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) and the HM Queen Sonja Art Foundation, with the board of the Foundation serving as the jury.
The artists are nominated by the larger academies of art and the printmaking organisations in the Nordic countries, and the award is presented every other year.
The award was first introduced as the Kjell Nupen Memorial Grant in 2014, in commemoration of the Norwegian artist Kjell Nupen, who passed away earlier that year. The grant was renamed the QSPA Inspirational Award in 2018.
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Kayo Mpoyi
Award Winner 2024Kayo Mpoyi (b. 1986) is an author and visual artist based in Stockholm. She has published two novels, Mai Means Water and An Exercise in Revolution , as well as... -
Meerke Laimi Thomasson Vekterli
award winner 2022Meerke Laimi Thomasson Vekterli (born 1988, Røyrvik, Norway) plays freely with shapes and patterns, textures and structures, composition and transparency. More traditional techniques, insightfully rooted in the tradition of South... -
Anna Pajak
Award Winner 2020Anna Pajak is a painter and printmaker. Her starting point is often a bodily sensation translated into the visual. In her works she explores geometrical spaces and architectural elements such... -
Julie Ebbing
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Adam Saks
award winner 2015Adam Saks was born in Copenhagen in 1974. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1993 to 1999. From 1996 to 1997 he studied in Berlin...
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