£40k Portrait Painters Exhibition & RWS Open
London shows open to all, water based media exhibition, kids xmas cards competitions
Hi! With over 50 years of exhibitions behind them the Royal Society Of Portrait Painters Award returns for their 2024 exhibition at Bankside Gallery, London.
Selected by a jury of practising portrait painters to showcase portraits (paintings, drawings and original prints including digital/iPad prints) selected from both national and international submissions. The current prize fund is £40,000, including The William Lock Portrait Prize (£20,000) and The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture (£10,000).
View the 2023 prize winners and online exhibition. Entry is £20 per work, £14 if under 35 (includes admission to the exhibition, normally £5).
Art Competitions
Newly opened around the web (not on MoMa)…
Royal Watercolour Society Open 2024 - £1,000 1st prize, ‘the largest open-submission water-media exhibition in the world’, £15 entry (£5 students), selected works from 2023 exhibition at Bankside Gallery next to Tate Modern, global (8 Jan)
UK Art Competitions - 11 open
Photography Competitions - 7 open
Children’s Art Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa and elsewhere…
Big Issue Christmas Kids Cover Competition - your design on the cover of Big Issue Christmas magazine, theme: ‘welcome’, ages 13 and under (25 Nov)
Home Bargains Christmas Card Competition - Design a Christmas Card for a chance to win £100 & craft hamper for your school & appear on cards to raise money for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. UK based primary school pupils age 5-11 (31 Jan)
Kid’s Art Competitions - 13 open
In a new series from Jackson’s Art, Georgina Potter shares some of her techniques, advice for becoming a better painter & how to know when to finish a painting.
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Odds & Ends
Was blown away by Young Fathers’ penultimate show of their UK tour last night. Landing on US shores Nov 16, catch them if you can. A brief taster & 5 star review.
Autumnal aerial photo of the recently restored Mormond Hill Stag in Aberdeenshire.
David Hockney: Drawing from Life opens at the National Portrait Gallery, London, on 2nd November, here’s the Guardian’s 5 star review.
David Shrigley’s limited-edition 1984 books (repurposed from unwanted Da Vinci Code copies) go on sale from 4th November (£795).
See you next week,
Grant