News, Awards and Prizes

Marsh Award for the Encouragement of Medallic Art 2025

This Award, run in partnership with the British Art Medal Society (BAMS), recognises an individual or organisation that has made a significant contribution to the understanding, appreciation and encouragement of the art of the medal.

https://www.marshcharitabletrust.org/award/marsh-award-for-the-encouragement-of-medallic-art/

Commission for The Benson Medal 2020

Linda Crook was commissioned to create The Benson Medal 2020, awarded by the Royal Society of Literature in the UK to Boyd Tonkin.

The medal award was founded in 1916 by A. C. Benson who was a Fellow of the Society, to honour those who produce "meritorious works in poetry, fiction, history and belles-lettres".

Above, the medal awarded to Boyd Tompkin, by Linda Crook. The medal is awarded for lifelong achievement. Recipients include: Edmund Blunden, Anita Desai, Maureen Duffy, E. M. Forster, Christopher Fry, John Gawsworth, Nadine Gordimer, Philip Larkin, R. K. Narayan, A. L. Rowse, George Santayana, Wole Soyinka, Lytton Strachey, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Helen Waddell.

Below, Linda introduces the the medal and talks about the inspiration behind the commission for the design. Boyd Tonkin, then talks about his award. This video will take you out of this website into a YouTube Video.

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