$100k Drawing Challenge
Mental Canvas contest, New woman artist's prize, Daniel Mullen work, Art competitions & opportunities
Mental Canvas Contest
Hi! It’s way too sunny outside to be online so I’ll get a move on. First off the Mental Canvas Global Challenge isn’t a competition for everyone – it’s free to enter but you’ll need some hardware – an iPad Pro (2nd gen and above) & Apple Pencil or multi-touch tablet & pen (running Windows 10) will all work with the free Mental Canvas Draw app.
I downloaded the app to my iPad Pro, watched a couple of included tutorials and was surprised at how intuitive and fun it was to use as my 2D trained mind lagged behind. Paul Klee’s quip that ‘drawing is taking a line for a walk’ never felt more apt.
How to win some of that $100k? Use Mental Canvas Draw to create something that ‘redefines drawing’, ideally a concept that couldn’t be generated by other means. Easy eh! The challenge runs from 14 July to 11 Oct, 2021 with a 1st prize of $25k, $15k 2nd, $10k 3rd respectively and $5k, $3k and $2k prizes in each of five categories: Architecture and Places, Education, Comics, Napkin Sketches, and Storytelling.
For inspiration here’s an interactive cartoon that takes place in an art gallery and webinars on interactive comics & architectural design. More details here.
New Art Competitions
Women United Art Prize - €1,200 prize fund, global competition, 2D work (31 Aug)
Children’s Art Competitions - 8 open.
UK Art Competitions - 17 prizes open.
Daniel Mullen - New Work
The best part of running MoMa is connecting with other artists. The second best is seeing their work progress while getting the attention it deserves.
Long time MoMa readers will recognise Rotterdam based, Scottish painter Daniel Mullen’s work from our feature (2014), interview (2015) and Selling Work on Saatchi Art article (2016).
No longer on Saatchi Art Daniel exhibits his work worldwide, currently showing at Galeria Kogan Amaro, Zurich (video interview/walkthrough & studio visit) and the ‘Worlds of Color’ show at Lightforms Art Center, NY.
A peek behind the curtains of Daniel’s Rotterdam studio reveals the methods to his wizardry – what do you mean there are no computers or projecting involved! Daniel explains how he builds up each layer & stay tuned for masking tape mountain.
Would love one of Daniel’s limited edition prints (98 x 90cm) from the Synesthesia Series. Only available from Galeria Kogan Amaro in São Paulo where Ricardo quoted me €1,700 + shipping – that was the end of that but maybe within someone’s budget!
Help Riga Forbes raise funds to show her work at the Florence Biennale with cards, prints and paintings available for sponsors. Read Riga’s MoMa interview here.
‘The Great Awakening’ by Danny Gretscher - $443.82, archival print (31”x 40”)
Work Avoidance is a new online store from Radiohead’s artist in chief Stanley Donwood, selling past print editions from Radiohead art to his ‘Lost Angeles’ series.
‘Dressed’ by Ghanaian artist Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne – solo show ‘Assuming you look like me’ at GNYP Gallery, Berlin (to 22 Aug)
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
‘The best way to succeed as a woman artist is to be old’ – an essay by Jillian Steinhauer in The Believer via Jocelyn K. Glei’s excellent newsletter on ‘Ideas for finding more creativity & meaning in our daily lives’. Watch the full Pat Steir documentary on Prime.
"The artist Pat Steir explains this dynamic in Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s documentary about her life and work, Pat Steir: Artist, which came out in 2020, the year she turned eighty. She’s now 'an honorary man,' she says, because of her age. 'The art world, it’s easier on older women because they feel like, you have the artwork they’ve never seen — because they’ve ignored it,' Steir said. The camera takes in the opening of her solo show at an Upper East Side gallery, a who’s who of the New York art scene. 'So it’s like finding hidden treasure and then also bargain prices… they can get high-quality for less money than if you were a guy and had been famous for thirty years.'"
Nice…
See you next week,
Grant