Beyond Future Art Prize
10 new art competitions, artist bursaries, iPhone photography awards, art jobs & opportunities
Hi folks, here’s a rare weekend edition of art competitions and creative things, normal service will resume next week.
This edition kicks off with a new international competition from Hong Kong. The Beyond Future Art Prize has a HK$25,000 1st prize (approx: £2,400) for artists who show a keen interest and focus on the environment, sustainable living, and climate change in their work (closes 31 Mar)
New Art Competitions
The Signature Art Prize - for art students & recent graduates, UK & Int. (2 Mar)
New Contemporaries - exhibition for final year students, recent graduates and postgraduate students from UK art schools (14 Feb)
Tate Collective - 3 x £5,000 for digital artworks to display in UNIQLO store inspired by the Tate collection, UK based artist ages 16-25 (31 Jan)
I Create... £6,000 artist grants for Black, Asian & minority artist in Southwark (7 Feb)
Marianne Brandt Award - €5,000 design, photography & text categories (3 Mar)
Mark Baines Competition - £600 of prizes, architectural drawing & illustration (8 Apr)
Innovate Grants - 2 x $550 grants for Artists & Photographers, $25 entry (24 Mar)
UK Art Competitions - 25 prizes open.
Kids Competitions
Write on Art - £500 1st prize for 15-18 year olds in UK (30 Jun)
Spirited Arts Competition - £50-£100 class prizes, RE themes (31 July)
Children’s Art Competitions - 9 open.
a-n 2022 Bursaries
£500 - £1,500 bursaries available for a-n members based in the UK (and non members based in England). Apply here by 3rd Feb.
iPhone Photography Awards
The 15th annual iPhone Photography Awards are open for entries with 18 category winners each receiving gold bars (platinum for runners up). See last years winners such as Tatiana Merzlyakova’s ‘Magic of Aurora Borealis’ for inspiration…
Paintings in progress by London-based artist David Shillinglaw
A Long & Winding Read
The Banality of Genius - Notes on Peter Jackson’s Get Back by Ian Leslie is a meticulously observed meditation on the creative process and the band he’s smitten with. He reports of the film’s ripples through the creative community…
“A friend of mine, a screenwriter in New York, believes Get Back has a catalytic effect on anyone who does creative work. Since it aired, he has been getting texts from fellow writers who, having watched it, now have the urge to meet up and work on something, anything, together.”
On seeing the mess behind the magic…
“A good song or album - or novel or painting - seems authoritative and inevitable, as if it just had to be that way, but it rarely feels like that to the people making it. Art involves a kind of conjuring trick in which the artist conceals her false starts, her boredom, her self-doubts, her confusion, behind the finished article... In Get Back, we are allowed into The Beatles’ process. We see the mess; we live the boredom. We watch them struggle, and somehow it doesn’t diminish the magic at all… It is about how hard it is to create something from nothing, and why we do it, despite everything.”
See also Get Back: Creativity Lessons from The Beatles
Encaustic Wax Demo
Artist and R&F ambassador Lyn Kirkland shares the tools and techniques she uses to create encaustic wax paintings (23 minutes)
Domestika Sale
Learn with Community Favourites - 5 courses for £31.90 (£6.38 each)
Boost Your Artistic Skills - 4 courses for £29.90 (£7.47 each)
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Me too! (handmade in East London by Wilkinson & Rivera)
See you next week,
Grant