Boynes Artist Award
Bath Art Open, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Art Writing Prize, Van Gogh fakes doc, art jobs & opportunities...
Hi folks. With little new additions to our competition pages this week the Boynes Artist Award is our sole featured competition.
Started in 2019 by founder Chantal Boynes the awards are open to all nationalities and are somehow already in their 8th edition. View previous winners.
Awards are split in to 3 categories:
Professional - ‘actively engaged in the art industry for at least three years’ - $2,000 prize.
Emerging - ‘early stages of career, with limited recognition in the arts’ - $750 prize.
Young - ‘age 18-25’ - $500 prize + $250 art materials.
Entry is $35/$25/$20 for 3 works depending on category (closes 30 July)
Newly Opened
Bath Open Art Prize - £500 1st prize, group show, any media, global, £20 entry (11 Sep)
Art on Climate - €5,000 prize fund, international illustration competition (31 Jul)
Competition Categories
Here’s what’s currently open on MoMa:
UK Art Competitions - 36 open
Photography Competitions - 10 open
Illustration Competitions - 4 open
Kid’s Art Competitions - 13 open
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
“I don’t want to impose what I think it should be - I want to open myself up to what it might be”. Toyin Ojih Odutola speaks with curator Erin J Gilbert on her A Countervailing Theory show. Also: from the MoMa archive: Artist Spotlight: Toyin Ojih Odutola.
Beastie Boys: Stand Together! - new Shepard Fairey print release in collaboration with Glen E. Friedman. $100 in red or blue, on sale: 5pm Thu 8th June on ObeyGiant.
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize - £1,000 + opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine. Submit one unpublished review of a contemporary art exhibition. Global, free entry (17 Jul)
China's Van Goghs: The Village That Paints Thousands Of Fakes A Year - Haven’t watched this yet but sounds intriguing. Watch the full doc for free on Youtube.
“Local painter Zhao has a dream to travel to Amsterdam to see the works of his legendary associate. After struggling and saving, he fulfils dream. In Europe, his encounter with van Gogh’s paintings brings an epiphany".”
Odds & Ends
Champions for Children - Double your donation to dozens of arts related children’s charities with The Big Give and The Childhood Trust (until 20 Jun)
Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer - ‘The violence of his era can be found in his serene masterpieces — if you know where to look’. (NY Times)
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – ‘flashes of brilliance amid the anodyne jumble sale’, Jonathan Jones pens his pros and cons (Guardian)
Duck vs 4 seconds…
See you next week,
Grant