Lucille Clerc won the Ushaw House & Gardens Prize in 2024. Lucille Clerc is a French illustrator, based in London.She specialises in making hand drawings, developed into screen printing in her personal work, to create large-scale compositions, architectural portraits of her favourite places and explore their past and present lives. Her favourite themes are the city and Nature and their sometimes symbiotic / sometimes antagonistic relationships. She develops these subjects in opulent narrative compositions filled with decorative and architectural details observed on site, with tones inspired by Nature and with a myriad of details that the viewer explores like a territory.

Oona Hyland also won the 2024 UshawHouse & Gardens Prize.Oona Hyland’s interests are interlocked in the materiality of print itself and what such processes can convey towards a conceptual art practice. Her method is a vehicle to articulate processes of memory, concepts of boundary, resistance, erasure, and decay. In this sense her work tends to draw from traditional printmaking even as she expands into various other media, such as drawing, sculpture, film and video. In her works she argues that the knowledge(s) of printmaking can be applied to existential matters.