Banksy Update

Over £50k of new art prizes, guide to buying Banksy prints & posters, arts jobs & opportunities, win a painting!

Feb 02, 2021

Banksy After Jean Michel Basquiat Beyond The Streets

Happy Groundhog Day in this year of groundhog days. With six more weeks of winter predicted we’re going to need some creative distractions. Here goes…

Banksy Buying Guide

Our guide to buying Banksy prints & posters is one of MoMa’s most popular pages but was in need of an overhaul, here’s a sneak peek at the new version with 12 sections.

New Art Competitions

National Sculpture Prize - £15,000 first prize, £45k prize fund (28th Feb)

Stone Lane Garden Sculpture Prize - £1,000 first prize and exhibition (28th Feb)

Design an Eco Race Suite - kids prize from Envision Virgin Racing (25th Feb)

Texaco Children's Art Competition - Ireland only, various prizes (24th Mar)

Royal Photographic Society - £4,000 prize fund, 163rd annual exhibition (27th Apr)

Boyne’s Emerging Artist Award - international art awards (30th Apr)

UK Art Competitions - 25 prizes currently open and 8 children’s art contests.

‘None of the trees in my paintings are happy’

Painting With John, a new unscripted series written, directed by and starring John Lurie, is part meditative tutorial, part fireside chat. Each episode has Lurie, the co-founder of musical group The Lounge Lizards, at his worktable, honing his watercolor techniques and sharing what he’s learned about life.

‘A dark and dreamy contemplation of artistry’ says Salon – watch the first episode free on HBO. Art prints on Lurie's website.

Richard Li’s runner-up photo of a brown bear looking for salmon by the Kamchatka volcano in Russia. Don’t miss this selection from Travel Photographer of the Year.

“$100 invested in Contemporary Art in 1995 would be worth $2,423 today while the same amount invested in the S&P 500 would be worth $842”. Packy McCormick takes a deep dive on art investing with Masterworks in his Not Boring newsletter.