Artist on Holiday Prize

Holdsworth House, Holt Festival, Hockney video, exhibition open calls, art jobs & opportunities

Apr 25, 2023

Hi folks. This week features a brand new competition from a ridiculously good-looking location…

On the opening night of their first UK tour the Beatles secretly stayed at Holdsworth House, a family run Jacobean Manor House hotel in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

The newly launched Holdsworth House Art Competition marks their 60th anniversary with an Artist on Holiday Prize that lets you follow in the Fab Four’s footsteps with 4 seasonal overnight breaks for 2 with dinner & breakfast, worth over £1,500. Further prizes of champagne afternoon tea, art vouchers and more prizes to be confirmed.

Under 18s can win vouchers of £100, £50 and £25, more details on Under 18s prizes.

It’s open to all and free to enter. Submit a 2-D painting or drawing (oil, watercolour, acrylic, mixed media, pencil, charcoal, pastel, textiles, ink or digital) of the front view of Holdsworth House. You can visit and take a photograph of the hotel facade to work from, or use an existing photograph from their website gallery. Or pre-book to bring your easel/sketchbook into the gardens. (closes 10th Sep)

New Art Competitions

Newly opened on MoMa…

Set in North Norfolk the Holt Festival (15th - 29th July) sees the return of the Holt Festival Art Prizes - £2,000 1st prize, £1,000 ceramics prize, £14 entry, UK (11 Jun)

FLAMIN Fellowship - 6 x £2,500 awards for early-career artist filmmakers living in England, free entry (30 May)

UK Art Competitions - 43 prizes open

Photography Competitions - 11 open

Kids Competitions

Newly opened on MoMa…

Holdsworth House Art Competition - £100 1st prize, age 17 and under, submit a drawing or painting of the front view of the hotel, global (10 Sep)

Children’s Art Competitions - 15 open

‘The People You Love Become Ghosts Inside of You’ by Scottish artist Robert Montgomery - **£250** archival print edition of 100 (50 x 70cm)

Exhibition Open Calls

Artworks Together - international arts exhibition for people with learning disabilities &/or autism or both at Wentworth Woodhouse in South Yorkshire, a Grade I Listed Stately Home (30th Aug - 24th Sep). Submissions are accepted from anywhere in the world and are completely free. (entries close 17th Jun)

British Ceramics Biennial Fresh - celebrates and promotes emerging talent in contemporary ceramics in the UK and Ireland. Artists who have been working with clay between 3 and 7 years. 25 exhibitors will each receive a £300 exhibition payment and £50 transport fee. (closes 11 Jun)