Call For Entries
2 x £60,000 prize funds, Grayson's Art Club, Free African art course from MIT, Art jobs & opportunities
Hello hello, art competition season heats up with a raft of new calls for entries…
The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs - £60,000 prize fund and £100,000 worth of business support for five 18-30 year olds who want to drive positive social impact through their creative enterprise. (closes 31st Mar)
ICA Image Behaviour Production Grants - £60,000 awards for artists’ experiments in moving image. (30th Mar)
Wells Art Contemporary Awards - £2,000 1st prize & exhibition at Wells Cathedral, Somerset (20th May)
Sir John Hurt Art Prize - £2,000 1st prize from Norfolk’s Holt Festival (20th Jun)
Stevens Competition - £2,000 1st prize for architectural glass artist (2nd Jul)
Contemporary Printmaking Prize - £500 1st prize from Fen Ditton Gallery. (7th Mar)
Ocean Awareness - $5,000 of prizes, international environmental art prize for 11-18 year olds. (24th Feb)
UK Art Competitions - 27 prizes open.
Children’s Art Competitions - 11 open.
Creative TV Catch Up
Grayson’s Art Club - returns for its second series with Boy George, still time to submit your art for upcoming episodes (Fri 8pm GMT, Channel 4)
Landscape Artist Of The Year - sees ‘the gods in the pods’ compete in the semi-final at Olympic Park, still time to enter for 2022 (Wed 8pm GMT, Sky Arts)
Hunt For The Wilderpeople - big-hearted feel good escapism from Taika Waititi (of What We Do in the Shadows), New Zealand never looked better. (99p on Amazon)
Our list of Inspiring Art Documentaries.
“Bush Medicine Dreaming” by Aboriginal artist Gloria Petyarre provides the backdrop for Alexis Wright’s wonderful essay The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times.
“When you move into the realm of your own sovereignty of mind by shielding yourself from the kinds of interferences that rob you of the ability to think straight, that sap your spirit, or block you from seeing and making your own judgment, then you are able to govern your own spirit and imagination.”
Winter Studio by Viktor Popkov (1959), two minute BBC film on his work.
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities Worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Laura I. Art Gallery in London is recruiting new artists for representation.
Can you game the art market? Free webinar, The Art Newspaper (4pm GMT Feb 26th)
‘Magic Harbour’ by Archie Dunbar McIntosh - £6,500 acrylic on board (94 x 97cm).
Creative Offers
Global Africa: Creative Cultures free undergraduate course from MIT.
Get 40% off photo books at Blurb through Friday. Two big thumbs up from me after using Blurb for four separate projects.
“We are all astronauts on a little spaceship called Earth” - R. Buckminster Fuller
See you next week,
Grant