The BRIT Awards 2025 trophy has been designed by Gabriel Moses.
The artist – who has collaborated with the likes of Skepta, Little Simz, Travis Scott and Burberry – has followed in the footsteps of Dame Vivienne Westwood, Sir Peter Blake and Rachel Jones by putting his own spin on the statuette taken home by the winners at the annual ceremony.
Gabriel said: “To be listed alongside some of the greatest artists, designers, architects, such as Vivienne Westwood, Zaha Hadid, Anish Kapoor, is truly an honour and something I will always be grateful and proud of.
“To now have both Slawn, and this year also myself, in the same group as people that informed our/mine visual approach, puts lots of things in perspective and it is an amazing achievement across the board.”
Damian Christian – Managing Director and President of Promotions, Atlantic Records UK, and Chair of the BRIT Committee for 2025 – hailed Garbiel as “one of the most exciting and in-demand creative figures in the world”.
The artist was inspired by his own childhood and Nigerian heritage, recalling sculptures his mother owned and “showcased all around” their home.
He added: “We tried to blend history and presence, with the latter informing the colours and texture of the sculpture, as for me it was also key to bring my photographs into this.
“To do so, we focused on the textural aspect of it, which is reminiscent of light and backdrops I use. Texture is everything, in all my mediums really, so creating the tones that people can identify within my work and bringing that to sculpture was an exciting process.
“Throughout the whole research phase, it was exciting to explore materials that we’d like to delve into and shapes in which we’d be able to push the sculpture.”
However, Gabriel – who was born and raised in South London – noted that “the features were the most important” aspect of the design.
He explained: “With so many of the sculptures that I’d grown up seeing at home that my mum would have in the living room, I kind of wanted the features to almost sit similar to that.
“A lot of my work takes me back to my childhood and the things that I grew up seeing so, in trying to create something that sat differently to what had been done before, I wanted to explore the fabrics that made me.”
The BRIT Awards 2025 with Mastercard will take place on Saturday 1st March and will broadcast live on ITV1 and ITVX from The O2 arena.