Call For Oil Painters
£6,000 prize fund, €5k FiKVA award, Emilio Perez interview, Sophie Woodrow’s ceramics
ROI Annual Open Exhibition
Hi! This week sees newly opened international competitions from London & Antwerp. The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition is open for entries for UK & International artists (over 18). 20 finalists will be selected for a London exhibition with a chance of winning over £6,000 of prizes. £20 per entry, closes 9th September.
FiKVA Award
The FiKVA-foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Antwerp promoting contemporary realism and figurative arts. The FiKVA Award is open to artists worldwide, 20 artists will be selected for an online show with €5,000 of prizes up for grabs. Entry is €25 per work, closes on 9th July.
UK Art Competitions
UK Art Competitions - 30 open
Kids Art Competitions
Hidden Gallery Kids Art Competition - create a climate themed inspired by an artwork from their collection for chance to win a £595 value art print (24 Aug)
Kid’s Art Competitions - 11 open
Photo Competitions
A selection on newly opened prizes:
International Photography Awards - $47,000 of prizes, UK & Int (14 Aug)
Ultimate Sea View - £500 prize, Shipwrecked Mariners charity, UK (29 Aug)
D31 Photography Prize - £500 of prizes, B&W photos, theme: nostalgia (5 Sep)
Fine Art Photography Awards - $5,000 of prizes, UK & Int (12 Feb)
Photography Competitions - 9 open
Emilio Perez Interview
Really enjoyed Neal Bascomb’s interview with Brooklyn based artist Emilio Perez last week and I’m delighted Neal’s agreed to republish it on MoMa UK: The Land of In Between - The Reinvention and Adventures of an Abstract Artist.
Neal’s a New York Times best selling author and creator of workcraftlife.com. As a subscriber myself I can highly recommend. He brings people’s stories to life in a similar way to Humans of New York, but about work.
Sophie Woodrow’s Ceramics
Working in porcelain, Sophie Woodrow hand builds delicate and ethereal animal and human forms that are right up my street. Here’s Sophie’s takeaway from art school:
I spent all of my time at Falmouth wondering what I “should” be making, it was only the disappointment of leaving with an average grade and a motley collection of work that then spurred me on to work hard, forget the “should”, and find what I wanted to make myself. – from a Q&A with The Art Circus
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Reading List
The artist whose life’s work found in a skip - prints available here.
The Dabous Giraffes. First discovered in 1987 (in my case last week on Twitter) as the shifting desert sands of the Sahara covered them for millennia.
See you next week,
Grant