Ellie Damant Wins 2025/26 Dubel Art Prize

Ellie Damant has been awarded the 2025/26 Dubel Art Prize, an annual accolade designed to assist emerging British artists through a comprehensive year of exhibitions and events. This prize offers £20,000 along with opportunities for exhibitions, publishing, and gallery showcases. A graduate with expertise in fine art and human anatomy from Oxford, Damant explores the construction of identity, meaning, and value through her paintings, recently emphasizing themes of money and commodification. In a conversation with ArtReview, she highlights her use of barcodes as representations of exchange, drawing on Marx's concept of 'phantom-like' value from Das Kapital. Her notable works include 'Plato's Code' (2025), 'Salvator Verbi Liberae (Saviour of Free Speech)' (2025), and 'Golden Kim (Esse Est Percipi)' (2025), as she continues her investigation into truth, justice, and value.