Art & Music Prize
New Concord Art Prize £20k prizes, Hockney show at the RA, Xiaojing Yan sculptures, Art Jobs & Opportunities
Note: Apologies for the slightly late edition and some gremlins in the system on MoMa last night, all fixed now!
Concord Art Prize
What’s not to like about a free to enter art prize with a £10,000 prize fund and 10 x £1,000 bursaries to bring your proposal to life. The Concord Art Prize is a new annual competition to encourage new artworks inspired by music…
“We have chosen 10 of the greatest pieces of music from our catalogue - from Mark Ronson to Stravinsky, Krept & Konan to Pink Floyd to act as inspiration… whether a painting, sculpture, installation, video or piece of photography - whatever the music moves you to make, we would love to see it.”
Here’s a Spotify playlist of the 10 recordings. Judges include Mark Ronson and Mat Collishaw (closes 30th April).
New Art Competitions
Locked down but not Broken - £500 1st prize & online exhibition from the D31 Art Gallery in Doncaster. (24th Feb)
In The Wild - new exhibition from King House Gallery with £500 1st prize, group show in Stratford-Upon-Avon & online. (4th Apr)
Festival of Hope - new children’s art competition to win VIP family trip to London from London Tourism Co-op (31st Mar)
UK Art Competitions - 22 prizes open.
Xiaojing Yan Sculptures
Only just discovered the 2017 show Out from among the tranquil woods by Chinese-Canadian artist Xiaojing Yan, a beautiful tribute to the workings of nature and human intervention. In Spirit Cloud Yan used 33,000 freshwater pearls to create a large, oscillating shape referencing both clouds and Chinese lingzhi mushrooms.
“I’m fascinated with the way technological advancement gives humans the illusion of power over nature. Now I’m playing with a range of collaborations between the human element and the natural element by designing a controlled, human environment that, over time, gives way to an organic process.”
For the lingzhi sculptures Yan mixed woodchips and lingzhi spores into moulds then controlled the humidity, temperature and light for the mushrooms to grow.
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities Worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Surviving and Thriving as an Artist - Free Online Art Café with Rosalind Davis (11am GMT Mar 25th)
David Hockney and Joni Mitchell in 2019. Pandemic gods allowing, you can now book tickets for Hockney’s show of new iPad works at the Royal Academy: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020 (27 Mar - 22 Aug 2021)
Ben Burville & his grey seal friends…
See you next week,
Grant