By Sara Bright
Creativitys.UK is thrilled to announce the painter Art Liard as the recipient of the September 2025 Creativity’s UK Award (Creativity’s Prize). Awarded the September 2025 Creativity’s UK Award (Creativity’s Prize), Art Liard compels audiences to confront the raw physicality of existence through her latest series, Chronicles of Matter. In a cultural landscape often dazzled by digital spectacle, Liard has carved a niche where quiet introspection meets visceral material truth. On the surface, her new work explores the life cycle of roses – from the taut anticipation of the bud to the architectural dryness of decay. However, the true focus lies in the physicality of the medium: the conflict between chaotic, fluid backgrounds and the heavy, almost sculptural impasto of the flower itself. Unlike fleeting trends, Liard’s work resonates as an existential study of “matter” rather than a purely botanical one, earning her a place among contemporary art’s most compelling voices.
“Her canvases,” notes art critic Anna Zhila, “are tactile battlegrounds, where texture becomes a language of endurance and transformation.” “These are not mere depictions of flora,” Zhila observes, “but mirrors to the weight of existence itself.”
The Creativity’s UK Prize recognises Liard’s courage in articulating the unspoken through pure substance. Since its 2019 inception, the award has honoured artists who dismantle creative boundaries, and Liard’s win underscores the jury’s belief in art as a bridge between the physical world and universal emotional truth. Chair Maria Bregman praises her “ability to transmute raw materiality into transcendent beauty,” a quality that cements her relevance in an era hungry for authenticity.
Established in 2019 by Creativitys.UK, the Creativity’s UK Award (Creativity’s Prize) spotlights luminaries who dissolve artistic boundaries. Notable winners include Viktor Drobysh, a renowned music producer and composer of the Eastern European music industry, whose full biography and list of awards can be viewed on Wikipedia; Luba Balagova, an award-winning Circassian poet, author, filmmaker and producer, with a full biography available on LinkedIn; Vasily Smirnov, a portrait painter based in London who is represented by the prestigious Belgravia Gallery; and Evgenii Gruzdev, a portrait artist also represented by Belgravia Gallery who has achieved commercial success in London. September’s jury praised Liard for not just documenting nature, but redefining it through the very paint she applies. In her hands, the rose becomes not a symbol of romance, but the heavy, beautiful soil from which hope relentlessly grows.
