Call To Artists 2021
Art competitions opening with £26k of prizes, unseen Beatles peek, free illustration course, art opportunities
Reassuring to see so many familiar art competitions going ahead as planned for 2021. Latest open calls on MoMa…
RSA Annual Exhibition 2021 is aiming to return to its usual Edinburgh show next April. Open to UK & international artists (prizes TBC) the last offline outing had a prize fund over £10,000 (closes 3rd Feb).
Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year is open for entries, filming in June-July to compete for the top prize of a £10,000 commission (closes 30th April)
Sunny Art Prize has a £6,000 prize fund, solo exhibition in London and residency opportunity in China (closes 30th June)
New Art Competitions
BBA Artist Prize 2021 - €1,000 prize & Berlin exhibition (closes 17th Jan)
RBSA Photography Prize 2021 - €1,000 prize (20th Jan)
This is Gender Photography Competition - £500 prize (3rd Jan)
King House Gallery ‘Seasons’ - £500 prize (31st Jan)
Never Such Innocence - prizes TBA, ages 9-18 (closes 19th March)
19 art competitions currently open on MoMa.
A cat in Hallstatt, Austria.
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI & Ireland.
Art opportunities Worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
15 art competitions currently open on MoMa.
Free Domestika Course
Cartoon-style Character Design with Procreate by Ed Vill, free for 72 hours.
Create to the sounds of forests from across the globe with tree.fm (via Kottke)
The Beatles: Get Back
Unseen footage of The Beatles messing around and recording from Peter Jackson’s upcoming documentary (out next August). These four fab minutes condenses just about everything that made them so great together. Accompanying book here.
Ian Leslie’s 64 Reasons to Celebrate Paul McCartney made me rethink a thing or two while Adam Buxton’s podcast interview with Sir Paul was an enjoyably intimate hour.
Hitching a ride out of 2020…
Have as lovely a Christmas as possible, back in a couple of weeks!
Grant