Allegro Prize
International art competition with 14k prize fund, $40k photo prizes, Zoe Grey interview
Hi hi. Sometimes it takes a couple years to catch up with the world. That’s my excuse for only just discovering the 3rd edition of The Allegro Prize - a free to enter art competition open to artists of all ages and nationalities working in any medium.
3 main winners will each receive 25,000 PLN (approx £4,450) and feature in Contemporary Lynx Magazine and website. Contemporary Lynx is a publisher and and arts organisation headquartered in London, Warsaw, and Paris (closes 27th Sep)
Art Competitions
Newly opened competitions for UK & International artists:
International Awards for Art Criticism - €10,000 1st prize, write a review of 1,500 words on any exhibition of contemporary art (31 Aug)
Bada Art Prize - £1,000 1st prize, artwork promoting “the antiques of tomorrow”, free to enter, must have post-secondary education at UK institution (16 Sep)
UK Art Competitions - 26 open
Kid’s Art Competitions - 6 open
Photography Competitions
Newly opened competitions for UK & International photographers:
LensCulture Summer Open 2022 - $500 grants for 20 photographers, London exhibition, free to enter single image (24 Aug)
Environmental Photographer of the Year Award - £5,000 1st prize, Nikon Z Camera & Lenses for Young Photographer prize, free to enter (31 Aug)
Sony World Photography Awards - $25,000 of prizes across several categories includes Professional, Open, Youth & Student competitions (various dates)
Photo Competitions - 8 open
Nice collection of Hand Drawn Vector Patterns ($28 USD) to use for your own projects from Athens based designer Irene Demetri. Inspired by the philosophy of Wabi - Sabi - embracing the beauty of imperfect or asymmetrical design.
Tasmanian painter Zoe Grey on her quest to capture the remote landscape of Marrawah on Tasmania’s North West coast (5:36 min).
Reading List
The Captured House - How Russia attacked the whole world. Traveling exhibition about the war. See the write up of it’s stop in Brussels at The Guardian.
In the first days of the war, Ukraine’s artists were in shock. “For about three to four weeks nobody did anything,” said Katya Taylor, the curator of the exhibition. “Artists didn’t feel the use of the art any more.”
Then in April she noticed a boom of new work on her Instagram. And this was the genesis of a travelling exhibition that has been to Berlin, Rome and Amsterdam, and which opened last week in the EU capital.
MoMa interview with Guy Armitage, founder of arts submissions hub Zealous.
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Take Me Somewhere is offering a regular basic income of £213 per week for a 9 month period to two contemporary performance artists based in Scotland (5 Sep)
Call for Artists - 12 month exhibition at King Edward VII Hospital, London. Receive 15% rental fee of artwork value (30 Sep)
Shouldn’t work, kinda does…
See you next week,
Grant