Antoinette Brown has been awarded the St Cuthberts Mill Award  at Wells Art Contemporary 2025 , for the drawing ' Hold On, Don’t Let Go' . The exhibition, held at Wells Cathedral from 8 October to 1 November 2025, brings together international contemporary artworks each year. The award, recognising notable work on paper, includes support from St Cuthberts Mill to further the artist’s practice.

Antoinette Brown has been awarded the 2025 Marie Dyson Award for 'Sleeping Evelyn' and her collection of graphite drawings. The assessor, Dr. Hannah Lyons, Curator of University Art Collections, University of Reading , said: "Museums and galleries are full of paintings and sculptures of mothers. However, art that communicates the actual experience of motherhood is much rarer. Antoinette has done an incredible job of articulating the unspoken aspects of motherhood in these sen