Chaiya Trust

The Chaiya Art Awards are the UK's leading faith based art initiative illuminating faith and spirituality through the visual arts with a top prize of £10,000. Each winners exhibition promotes and celebrates inspiring art on a different theme. This competition is about engaging with people of all faiths; those with none and everyone in between, all across the UK.

Our third biennial awards and exhibition was held over Easter 2023 at London's Oxo and Bargehouse galleries expressing spirituality through art on the dynamic theme ‘AWE + WONDER' and attracted over 3,400 visitors.

For a flavour of the awards please watch the short videos below.

Since 2018 Chaiya has provided space for over 12,500 primarily unchurched visitors and 6000 artists from across the UK to explore their spirituality. In the heart of London visitors have considered the biggest questions of our time in three exhibitions entitled ‘Where is God in our 21st Century World?’; ‘God is?; and ‘Awe and Wonder’.

Over the centuries art has shaped our culture, our faith and how we view ourselves. But the Christian root of most western art is losing its space to shape our culture and no longer challenges us to consider ourselves within God’s story. Chaiya’s questions and Christian passion provokes the unchurched to consider the presence, power, and love of God in an open and relaxed way – we Let God Speak.