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This year's ECA graduates have been recognised with a wide range of awards and prizes.

The Royal Scottish Academy named 16 ECA graduates in their selection for next year's New Contemporaries exhibition, with a number of our students also being recognised with the Academy's John Kinross Scholarships and Blackadder Houston Student Travel Award.

At the New Designers showcase in London, there were two ECA runners-up in the New Designer of the Year Award and a winner in the Hallmark Connection Award.

Honours also include three winners of D&AD Young Blood graphite pencils across our 2023 and 2024 graduates, recognition from the Society of Scottish Artists, and several other awards.

We've already reported on the students who won this year's Bookmarks Prize, and Purchase Prize.

This year's winners include:

RSA New Contemporaries

Jillian Lee Adamson - BA (Hons) Painting
Ahed Alameri - BA (Hons) Intermedia
Tallulah Batley - BA (Hons) Painting
Robin Bigret - MA (Hons) Fine Art
Cathy Bullock - BA (Hons) Intermedia
Will Dutton - BA (Hons) Painting
Niamh Finnigan - BA (Hons) Painting
Fiona Goss - MA (Hons) Fine Art
Hanna Lehtinen - BA (Hons) Sculpture
Adam Lock - BA (Hons) Sculpture 
Ellis Ludlow - BA (Hons) Intermedia
Agnes Roberts - BA (Hons) Painting
Shiza Saqib - BA (Hons) Painting
Christian Sloan - BA (Hons) Sculpture
Justine Watt - BA (Hons) Sculpture
Kitty Yarrow - BA (Hons) Painting

(Note: Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture winners are still to be announced and will be added here in due course)

RSA John Kinross Scholarships

Siri Burt - MA Contemporary Art Practice
Remi Jablecki  - MA Contemporary Art Practice
Christian Sloane - BA (Hons) Sculpture
Justine Watt - BA (Hons) Sculpture
Laura Anne Charlotte Dew - BA/MA (Hons) Architecture

RSA Blackadder Houston Student Travel Award

Clare Cooper - MA (Hons) Fine Art
Astrid Wigand - MA (Hons) Fine Art

New Designers - Hallmark Connection Award

Charlotte Brooke - BA (Hons) Textiles

News Designers - Business Design Centre New Designer of the Year Award - Runners up

Holly Munro - BA (Hons) Jewellery and Silversmithing
Josephine Drew - BA (Hons) Product Design

Society of Scottish Artists New Graduate Award

Jillian Lee Adamson - BA (Hons) Painting
Ahed Alameri - BA (Hons) Intermedia

D&AD Young Blood Graphite Pencil

Izzy Pleasance - BA (Hons) Graphic Design
Ewan Booth - BA (Hons) Graphic Design (2023)
James Mudd - 

Dyers Company Bursary Award in Textiles

Fitzroy Newdegate - BA (Hons) Textiles
Ellie Ross - BA (Hons) Textiles
Erin Macleod - BA (Hons) Textiles
Maisie Williams - BA (Hons) Textiles

Visual Art Scotland - Graduate Showcase Award

Haf Thompson - BA (Hons) Textiles
Kitty Yarrow - BA (Hons) Painting

New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize Nomination

Kitty Yarrow - BA (Hons) Painting

NHS Lothian Tonic Arts prize

Kitty Yarrow - BA (Hons) Painting

Friends of Edinburgh University Arts Special Commendation Award

Kitty Yarrow - BA (Hons) Painting

Clason-Harvie Bursary

Ahed Alameri - BA (Hons) Intermedia

Lyon and Turnbull Graduate Showcase award

Laura Hegarty - MA (Hons) Fine Art

Creative Conscience Creative Impact Award

Tallulah Judd - BA (Hons) Textiles