£8,000 Drawing Prize
£17k Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, £10k Chaiya Art Award, Ukraine Art Protection, Art Jobs & opportunities
Happy #WorldArtDay and a happy 570th birthday to young upstart Leonardo da Vinci who inspired the whole thing and would fancy his chances of winning the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize which just opened its doors for entries.
With a £17,000 prize fund and £8,000 first prize this is about as good as it gets for drawing competitions. Open to UK & International artists (closes 13th Jun)
Chaiya Art Awards
The UK’s ‘biggest art awards illuminating spirituality’ has a top prize of £10,000 and London exhibition in 2023. This year’s theme is ‘Awe and Wonder’. Artists will be judged on ‘theme interpretation, originality and technique and emotional impact’.
Enter the Chaiya Art Awards. See last year’s winners (closes 31 Aug)
New Art Competitions
RSA William Littlejohn Award - £2,000 & show at the Royal Scottish Academy, for Scottish born or based artists working in a water-based medium (26 Jun)
ACS Studio Prize - £4,500 towards studio costs for graduates (30 Jun)
UK Art Competitions - 25 open.
Kid’s Art Competitions
Frog Bikes X Little Rider Jersey Competition - design a cycling jersey, any age (24 Apr)
Draw A Robot Competition - win a Robotics kit & factory tour, ages 5-7 (12 Jun)
Kid’s Art Competitions - 8 open.
Photo Competitions
RSA Morton Award - £5,000 & show at the Royal Scottish Academy, Scottish born/based artists working in lens-based medium (26 Jun)
Photography Competitions - 8 open
Catherine Ross - Phantoms
I was first struck by the work of Catherine Ross at her Gray’s School of Art degree show in 2014 which led to our first artist to watch feature and artist interview. Her current show at Arusha Gallery is well worth a visit if you’re in Edinburgh this weekend (closes 17th April).
Jackson’s Painting Prize Winner
Congratulations to Edinburgh School of Art graduate Lorena Levi on being awarded the top prize for her painting ‘January Assessment’ described in her own words…
“This is a current project I’ve been working on where I find psychoanalysis academic papers online and then I paint imagined scenes from what I read. This painting is based on ‘Eric’, a child who has undergone psychoanalysis for a few years. Each year he has four assessments with his parents and the therapist. I wanted to try and depict the tension between the family by placing them in the therapy room”
Read more about Levi’s work and see the winners of each category here. While we’re speaking Jackson’s they currently have a decent sale on all canvas ranges.
My Life As A Deer
Some beautiful writing in this Guardian extract from Deer Man: Seven Years of Living in the Forest by Geoffroy Delorme.
Fascinating video essay on securing Ukrainian art and the importance of protecting physical culture, had no idea Malevich was born and brought up in Kiev (9 mins)
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
That belly slide at the end…
Happy Easter, see you next week,
Grant