Each year the Royal Academy awards a number of prizes for outstanding works within the Summer Exhibition.

The Charles Wollaston Award is given to the “most distinguished work” in the Summer Exhibition. At £25,000, it is one of the most significant art prizes awarded in the country. The judges for this year’s award were Ann Christopher RA, Jock McFadyen RA and the writer and art critic Kelly Grovier.

The 2015 shortlist was as follows
Richard Long, Mississippi River Blues (Cat No 45, Gallery III)
Rose Wylie, Herr Rehlinger In White Armour (Cat No 63, Gallery III)
Humphrey Ocean, Sea (Cat No 117, Gallery II)
William Kentridge, Remembering The Treason Trial (Cat No 480, Small Weston Room)
Keith Milow, First And Last (Cat No 730, Gallery VI)
Tom Phillips, A Humument (Cat No 1111, Gallery X)

The 2015 winner was
Rose Wylie, Herr Rehlinger In White Armour (Cat No 63, Gallery III)

The Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture
£10,000 for a sculpture.
Tim Shaw, Erebus (Man on Fire Version II) (Cat No. 1100, Lecture Room)

The Hugh Casson Drawing Prize
£5,000 for an original work on paper in any medium, where the emphasis is clearly on drawing.
Carla Groppi, After Atget (Cat No. 974, Gallery IX)

The Sunny Dupree Family Award for a Woman Artist
£4,000 for a painting or sculpture.
Vanessa Jackson, Homage a Henri (Cat No. 12, Central Hall)

The London Original Print Fair Prize. Sponsored by Towry
£2,500 for a print in any medium.
Ian McNicol, Red Versus Blue (Cat No. 697, Gallery V)

Arts Club Charitable Trust Award
£2,000 for a work in any medium (except architecture).
Ade Adesina, The Questions (Cat No. 770, Gallery VII)

The British Institution Awards
Four prizes of £1,000 each awarded to student exhibitors for paintings, works on paper, sculpture and architecture.
Tom Palin (Cat nos 165, 166, Gallery II)
Simon Dean (Cat no. 421, Large Weston Room)
Petra Regent (Cat no. 610, Gallery V)
Richard Seymour (Cat no. 957, Gallery IX)

The Rose Award for Photography
£1,000 for a photograph or series of photographs.
Caroline Abbotts, Floor Studies (Cat No. 984, Gallery IX)

Turkishceramics Grand Award for Architecture
£10,000 awarded to the most outstanding work of architecture.
Peter Barber Architects, Coldbath Town – Mount Pleasant Sorting Office (Cat 447, Large Weston Room)

The AKT II Architecture Prize
£5,000 awarded to an architect aged 35 or under for a work in any medium.
Laurence Pinn, Ben Kirk and Andrew Diggle, Urban Flora Propagation Field Box (Cat 467, Large Weston Room)