Holly Bush Prize
Emerging Women Painting Prize, £10,000 sculpture prize, new kids comps, art jobs & opportunities
Emerging Woman Painter Prize
Hello! It’s art prize opening season so brace yourselves for open call overload…
The annual Holly Bush Painting Prize is open for entry with an increased prize fund of £8,000. Open to emerging women artists* living and working in the UK. Who is an emerging artist? “any artist that has not been snapped up by a gallery, does not have an art agent and whose profile in the art market is low, to be emerging.”
Friend of MoMa Riga Forbes made the exhibition last year so fingers crossed we get some more shortlisted artists this year, let me know!
New Art Competitions
Mark Tanner Sculpture Award - £10,000 + solo exhibition/tour, UK only (31 Mar)
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition - £9,000 of prizes for figurative art (1 Apr)
Scottish Portrait Awards - £5,000 1st prize, Scottish born/based artists (31 May)
Sketch For Survival - global art exhibition & auction in aid of conservation (30 Jun)
UK Art Competitions - 28 prizes open.
New Children’s Art Competitions
Logo Lift Off - see your logo design on rockets in space, ages 4-11 (11 Mar)
Never Such Innocence - Win an art pack on theme ‘Life After Conflict’ (18 Mar)
Unique Art Awards - £7,000+ prize fund for disabled young people ages 7-21 (29 Mar)
National Book Token Design Competition - £2,000 of book tokens prize fund (3 Apr)
Junior Sketch For Survival - Win engraved trophy, exhibition & auction (30 Jun)
Children’s Art Competitions - 12 open.
Art on Screen
Black Art: In the Absence of Light - HBO doc streaming in UK (Now Entertainment)
This Green and Pleasant Land: The Story of British Landscape Painting (iPlayer)
Watercolour Challenge - four amateur painters compete (Channel 5)
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
New Exhibitions
Glen Baxter: Inexplicably Vermillion - Flowers Gallery, London (to 19 Feb)
Van Gogh Self Portraits - 5 star review, Courtauld Gallery, London (3 Feb - 8 May)
Derwent Art Prize - 55 artists from 2,325 entries, gallery@oxo, London (24 Feb - Mar)
An endangered ‘grey woolly monkey’ filmed by Joel Sartore, founder of the Photo Ark, a 25-year documentary project to help save species & habitats before they disappear.
See you next week,
Grant