Celebrating Creativity: Step Inside the 2025 VAA Artist of the Year Exhibitions
- Artist of the Year Awards
- Mar 21
- 3 min read
The VAA Artist of the Year Awards 2025: Solo and Group Exhibitions Now Live
The Visual Artists Association (VAA) is delighted to announce that the 2025 Artist of the Year Awards exhibitions are now accessible online. Art enthusiasts worldwide can explore both the Overall Winner Virtual Showcase, celebrating Jaime Domínguez, and the Winners Group Exhibition, featuring category winners across diverse contemporary art practices.
The VAA Artist of the Year Awards, one of the UK’s leading platforms for contemporary art, provide emerging and established artists with visibility, recognition, and critical engagement. Since its inception, the awards have highlighted exceptional creative voices from across the globe, and the 2025 edition continues this tradition with a focus on innovation, cultural dialogue, and technical excellence.
Overall Winner Virtual Showcase: Jaime Domínguez
The 2025 Overall Winner Virtual Showcase is now live. This solo presentation celebrates Jaime Domínguez, a multidisciplinary abstract artist from Guadalajara, Mexico. Domínguez’s work operates at the intersection of cultural memory and formal precision. Drawing from Mexican visual traditions, he reinterprets inherited motifs through geometric abstraction, producing work that is both rooted in heritage and rigorously contemporary.
With a background in architecture, Domínguez brings a strong structural logic to his compositions, influenced by modern architecture, scenography, and automotive and nautical design. His pieces balance clean lines and geometric clarity with subtle cultural references, creating a tension between minimalism and identity.
Jaime Domínguez is also the VAA Art100 Winner 2026 and a Saatchi Art Top Seller. He continues to exhibit internationally, with his work celebrated for its precision, cultural depth, and visual impact.
Explore more of Jaime’s work:
Purchase enquiries: hello@visual-artists.org
Artist of the Year 2025 Winners Group Exhibition
The Winners Group Exhibition, which went live last week, showcases the remarkable talents of category winners across a variety of disciplines:
Cara Roberts – Best New & Emerging Artist
Jane Palm-Gold – Landscape Category Winner
Trevor Burgess – Best International Artist
Kristine Nason – Best Professional & Established Artist
Krisztina Lőrincz – Still Life & Wildlife Category Winner
Clare Hanna – People’s Choice Winner
Featured Artists
Cara Roberts – Best New & Emerging Artist
Cara’s hyperrealistic portraiture explores identity, emotion, and social meaning. Living with vitiligo, her work highlights individuality while challenging societal beauty norms. Working primarily in watercolour, Cara captures nuanced textures and emotional depth.
Jane Palm-Gold – Landscape Category Winner
Jane draws inspiration from London’s West End and its layered histories, fusing past and present in intricate mixed-media paintings. Her work blends pencil, ink, gouache, and collage to explore urban narratives and personal connections to landscape.
Trevor Burgess – Best International Artist
Trevor’s “Stacks and Wrap-ups” series depicts sculptural objects from markets around the world, combining minimalism, assemblage, and large fields of colour. His work reflects global experiences and challenges perceptions of visibility and mystery.
Krisztina Lőrincz – Still Life & Wildlife Category Winner
From Budapest, Krisztina merges her background in theology, music, and mental health with painting. Her acrylic and oil works explore human experience, emotions, and the beauty of uniqueness, informed by the fundamentals of classical art.
Kristine Nason – Best Professional & Established Artist
Kristine’s work is inspired by the vibrant life of Ghana, blending expressive textures and mark-making with her design background. Her paintings explore identity, belonging, and cultural memory through oils layered with narrative depth.
Clare Hanna – People’s Choice Winner
Hailing from Northern Ireland, Clare captures the rugged beauty of her surroundings in bold, expressive compositions. Her landscapes convey energy, texture, and movement, offering viewers a deep connection to nature.
VAA Artist of the Year Awards 2025 Judging Panel
All artworks were thoughtfully judged by the esteemed panel of experts, celebrated for their extensive creative expertise and keen artistic eye.
The panel included Mimi Spendriff, Curator and Gallery Manager; Gemma Peppé, Founder of Art on a Postcard; Elizabeth Fullerton, writer and critic; Stephen Snoddy, Gallery Director and Professor; Bea Last, artist and educator; Jessica Cerasi, contemporary art curator, author, and educator; and Tabish Khan, art critic, writer and podcaster.
Explore and Acquire
The majority of artworks in both exhibitions are available for sale. For purchase enquiries, please contact hello@visual-artists.org. The exhibitions are accessible online worldwide for one month, offering a unique opportunity to experience the 2025 winners from anywhere.
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