Berger Prize 2025 Longlist
July 10 2025
Picture: walpolesociety.org.uk
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Walpole Society, the home of the Berger Prize for excellence in British art publishing since 2024, announced the 2025 prize's longlist yesterday evening.
Here's a list of the books that have made the cut:
Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira (editors) - Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour
Rosie Broadley (editor) - Francis Bacon: Human Presence
Bruce Boucher - John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Reflections on an Architect and his Collection
Esther Chadwick - The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Bryony Coombs - Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550
Paul Gough - Gilbert Spencer: The Life and Work of a Very English Artist
Bendor Grosvenor - The Invention of British Art
Elain Harwood and Alan Powers (editors) - Ernö Goldfinger
Mark Laird - The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations
Cristina S. Martinez and Cynthia E. Roman - Female Printmakers, Printsellers and Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women 1735-1830
Nicholas Olsberg - The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times
Madeleine Pelling - Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Eleonora Pistis - Architecture of Knowledge: Hawksmoor and Oxford
Dorothy Price, Esther Chadwick, Cora Gilroy-Ware and Sarah Lea - Entangled Pasts, 1768-now: Art, Colonialism and Change
Natalie Prizel - Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant Bodies
Jeff Rosen - Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography
Fiona Smyth - Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, music, and architecture in the twentieth century
Gavin Stamp - Interwar British Architecture 1919-39
The winner will be announced on 12th November 2025.


