2023 Art Competitions
Too many art awards, exhibitions & kids contests to mention! New Hockney show, art opportunities...
Happy New Year! I hope you had a mighty fine one.
My reward for taking a few weeks off over the holidays is to return to every art competition known to man opening in early January. I’ll let you take your pick from the newly added art competitions, children’s art competitions and photography competitions listed below.
Good luck and here’s to a year rich with awards, grants, residencies, exhibitions and just the right amount of satisfaction and productivity in your practice.
New Art Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa…
Bell Tent Giveaway - win a 4.5m tent worth £669, create an imaginary Bell Tent scenario in any medium, free to enter, UK & Int (31 Jan)
NAE Open - £1,200 Judges prize & residency awards for artists from the Global Ethnic Majority & and all artists from Nottinghamshire (5 Feb)
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - £50,000+ prize fund, curated by David Remfry, limited to 16,500 total entries, £38 entry, UK & Int (14 Feb)
Apila’s First Printing Award - €4,000 & professional contract to publish your first children’s book, UK & Int (16 Feb)
EMBracing the Ocean - 2 x €10,000 awards for remote residency to co-create artwork in collaboration with ocean scientists, UK & Int (20 Feb)
RSA Annual Exhibition - £3,000+ prize fund, largest and longest-running annual exhibition of contemporary art and architecture in Scotland. UK & Int (26 Feb)
Stone Lane Sculpture Exhibition - £1,000 award, for sculptors in South West of England, theme: ‘Sense of Place’, free to enter, UK (28 Feb)
Alpine Fellowship - £3,000 1st prize awarded for best visual arts response to the theme ‘Flourishing’, symposium in Fjällnäs, Sweden, UK & Int (1 Mar)
Society of Women Artists - £6,000 of prizes, annual exhibition (14 Mar)
COAL Prize - €12,000 1st prize & funded art residency in NE France, theme: ‘Plants’ - explore the crossover of art and ecology, free to enter, UK & Int (19 Mar)
Wildlife Artist of the Year - £10,000 1st prize inc. £5k conservation, UK & Int (29 Mar)
Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize - £10,000 1st prize, (31 Mar)
Hampstead Art Society - £2,000 1st prize, London show, £10 fee, UK & Int (30 Mar)
Scottish Portrait Awards (Fine Art) - £5,000 1st prize, UK & Int (30 Apr)
Anthology Cover Art Award - €1,000 1st prize, €12 early bird fee, UK & Int (30 Sep)
UK Art Competitions - 34 prizes open
Art competition overload? Unwind with this live feed from a waterhole in the heart of Namibia (worth rewinding to daylight if arrive during their night).
Kids Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa…
Elizabeth Tower Competition - win a VIP trip to the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye, construct your own tower in any media, ages 7-12, UK (30 Jan)
Ecover & Mr Men Competition - Win a family eco-adventure in the Scottish Highlands, complete a creative activity sheet, UK based children (31 Jan)
Christmas Card Competition - 12 x £50 Home Bargains vouchers for your school, design a card to raise money for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, age 5-11, UK (31 Jan)
Unique Art Awards - art competition with £15k prize fund for disabled children age 7–15 and youths age 16–21. £750 1st prize and £5,000 for school. (29 Mar)
RA Young Artists’ Summer Show - prizes TBC & exhibition at the Royal Academy, age 4-19 UK only (29 Mar)
Embracing Our Differences - $3,000 of prizes, billboard size art on theme ‘enriching lives through diversity and inclusion’, outdoor show in South Florida, UK & Int. (5 Oct)
Children’s Art Competitions - 13 open.
Photo Competitions
International competitions newly opened on MoMa…
Scottish Portrait Awards (Photography) - £2,000 1st prize, UK & Int (30 Apr)
Anthology Photography Competition - €500 1st prize, €12 early bird, UK & Int. (30 Sep)
Photo Competitions - 9 open
Tickets now on sale for Hockney’s immersive art show ‘Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)’ at Lightroom, London (£25, 22 Feb - 4th Jun). BBC feature/interview.
This was fascinating. Tuesday Riddell talks through her process involving 25-30 layers of lacquer and a gold gilding process. Read the accompanying article on Jackson’s.
I’d already chosen the above painting to feature then read today’s Guardian article on ‘Fabulous felines: why female artists love stroking, painting and spoiling cats.’
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Chinwe Russell Art Gallery - Call to Artists: ‘Artists on the Rise’ February Auction & Online Exhibition (20 Jan)
The Lodge Residency - £3,000 fee paid to artist, free accommodation in 18th century cottage in the Derbyshire Dales (Jul/Aug/Sep) and exhibition at Wirksworth Festival ‘exploring the area from outsider’s point of view’. UK based artists with a minimum of 5 year’s practice. (31 Jan)
Current Vacancies at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.
‘tis the season…
See you next week,
Grant