Holly Bush Prize Open Call
Emerging woman painter prize, $45k representational art prize, Domestika scholarships, Film prizes & Art jobs...
Emerging Woman Painter Prize
Aimed at supporting, encouraging and mentoring emerging women painters, the Holly Bush Prize has opened for entries with two prizes of £1,500 and runners up prizes. Read our interview with Riga Forbes, a well deserved finalist from 2020.
New Art Competitions
Lumen Prize - $15,000 prize fund for art created with technology. (4th Jun)
FLAMIN Fellowship - 6 awards of £2,500 for England based early career artists working with the moving image. (4th May)
UK Art Competitions - 26 prizes open.
Children’s Art Competitions - 14 open.
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
International art prize from Beautiful Bizarre Magazine with over $45,000 of prizes & New York group show. Celebrating representational art with all styles from realism and hyperrealism, to pop surrealism and lowbrow. (17th Jul)
Seeing these otherworldly photos of the Rainbow Mountains of China today took me right back to these Marcelo Albuquerque’s Brazilian landscapes.
Win 50 courses with a Domestika Scholarship. Create an account, fill in the profile and upload at least 3 creative projects of your work to enter (closes Apr 12th).
Creativity in Confinement
Leslie Jamison writes powerfully in The Atlantic on MoMA PS1’s exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration:
Not all art that emerges from injustice wants to transcribe it; art can glance obliquely, using stolen sewing pins and tea-bag curtains to suggest longing and determination—to say, You can’t have all of me.
Dean Gillespie spent 20 years incarcerated for crimes he didn’t commit, that’s his miniature trailer above, more in this short video with curator Nicole Fleetwood.
Charlotte Keates
Well made 5 minute film of London based artist Charlotte Keates creating work for an exhibition inspired by a US & Canada trip. The ground is an essential element:
“A lot of the work is reacting to the way paint is working on the surface for me, specifically working with the chalk ground. The chalk ground is so important in the work in that the paint really adapts to it, it creates these vibrant surfaces that wouldn’t be possible without it.”
Jackson’s have a nice artist write up on chalk and casein grounds and you can see more of Keates’ work at Arusha Gallery.
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Art opportunities in film by Film London.
Podcast: Scottish artist Katie Paterson talks about how the pandemic and lockdown have affected her creativity on Shock Waves, BBC Sounds. (27 mins)
Working from home 2020-2021. (photo by Kevin Morgans)
See you next week,
Grant