Art Liard Wins the Creativity's UK Award

Creativity's UK announced Art Liard as the recipient of the September 2025 Creativity's UK Award (Creativity's Prize), an honour given since 2019 to artists "who dismantle creative boundaries." The award recognised her series Chronicles of Matter, which explores the life cycle of roses — "from the taut anticipation of the bud to the architectural dryness of decay" — through heavy, almost sculptural impasto.

Her canvases are tactile battlegrounds, where texture becomes a language of endurance and transformation — mirrors to the weight of existence itself.

— Anna Zhila, art critic, quoted in Creativity's UK

Jury chair Maria Bregman praised Liard's "ability to transmute raw materiality into transcendent beauty," adding that the win "underscores the jury's belief in art as a bridge between the physical world and universal emotional truth." The citation placed her "among contemporary art's most compelling voices."