FiKVA Award & Margate Art Prize
New £2k prize selected by Tracey Emin, Art courses, Hockney photos, African Artists Now book
International FiKVA Award
Hi! The non-profit FiKVA Foundation (based in Antwerp) promotes contemporary realism and figurative arts. The International FiKVA Award has €5,000 of prizes up for grabs & 35 artists will be selected for online show. €32 entry (closes 18th May).
New Art Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa & elsewhere…
Margate Art Prize - £2,000 prize, new annual prize and exhibition open to emerging artists (all artists not currently formally represented by a gallery) working in 2D. The winner will be selected by Tracey Emin! Theme is ‘Hell or High Water’. (1 May)
AXA Art Prize 2023 - $10,000 prize & New York exhibition, open to students in the United States making figurative paintings, drawings & printmaking. (2 Mar)
UK Art Competitions - 40 prizes open
Children’s Art Competitions - 18 open.
Photo Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa & elsewhere…
RPS International Photography Exhibition - 2 x £1,000 prizes for main & under 30s, 165th edition of the historic exhibition in Bristol, 1 free entry (8 May)
Photo Competitions - 10 open
French artist Claire Tabouret talks about the work she created during the pandemic: “with lots of time spent inside in isolation – paradoxically, this is where I started painting exteriors and the landscape - but for me these function as interior landscapes.” (5 mins)
Some beautiful shots of Hockney’s immersive art show in this Guardian piece.
“I’m 85 years old, so I don’t know how much longer I have. But some young person might see something here and think, well, I can see what you could do with this. I hope what it will do is give young people some ideas – perhaps on how to make movies in a completely new way. Cinema is dying. You can see any Hollywood film on a big screen at home. But this is a new kind of theatre, a new kind of cinema. With this, you have to go out and see it. And people do like going out!”
‘Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)’ at Lightroom, London (22 Feb - 4 Jun).
New Art Book
African Art Now - ‘Fifty Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century’. Featuring the work of Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Michael Armitage, Amoako Boafo, Cassi Namoda, Cinga Samson, Zina Saro-Wiwa and many more.
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 Art Courses
This is about as good as it gets for Domestika – all courses reduced to £9.90 + an extra 10% off using code: MOMAUK-10. Couple of new courses that caught the eye:
Painting Realistic Watercolor Landscapes with Devon based artist Richard Thorn.
Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration by Evan Lorenzen.
Odds & Ends
£50k of matched funds still available for the Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal.
Testing Grounds Podcast - As the climate crisis accelerates, how can artists’ residencies be testing grounds for new – and better – ways of living and working?
The Scottish Government has abandoned its plans to cut funding for Creative Scotland after a petition initiated by the excellent Campaign for the Arts.
Meanwhile, 5 billion km away…
See you next week,
Grant
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