JADE Erotic Artist of the Year Award

Winner: ROBERT BABYLON - Photo-Artist 

Runner Up: DAVE HARE - Photographer 

Runner Up: KAREN MIDDLETON - Artist

The winner was presented with a specially comissioned kneeling nude sculpture in white produced by leading master sculptor Ken Clarke.
Guild Model Rebekka Raynor presented the Award.

The winner and the two runners up also received framed certificates. The main awards form part of JADE magazine's active support of The Guild of Erotic Artists and are presented to members of the Guild whose work has appeared in the magazine. The winners are chosen by the magazine's editorial staff based on a combination of proffesional assesment of the work which has appeared in the magazine and on readers' response as shown through the mailbag. Although limited to this single award at present, it is hoped eventually to expand the system of awards to include a wide range of fields and accomplishments, and perhaps to encourage other organisations and companies to create awards of their own.

JADE is proud to continue to support the Guild of Erotic Artists and to promote the sensual art of erotica for the modern age. The secondary awards, in other areas of erotica, are presented by the editor in the form of framed certificates, on behalf of the magazine's editorial staff and the categories for these are intended to be flexible year on year to allow for a wide range of erotica to be recognised and acknowledged as the JADE staff see fit.