Jackson’s Painting Prize 2023
£75k public art prize, 3 x £10k Greenpeace awards, $30k drawing competition, $60k photo prizes...
Hi! This week’s round of art prizes and openings features the good kind of inflation – increased prize funds, free entries and £150 of design software just for entering…
Kicking things off is the much loved Jackson’s Painting Prize 2023 - open to artists worldwide for a very reasonable entry fee of £6 per work. The top prize of £6,000 now includes an additional £1,000 of art materials.
This year, the winners will be exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, followed by a summer exhibition at Bankside Gallery next to Tate Modern.
Lorena Levi won the 2022 prize from over 9,000 entries. (closes 1st March 2023)
New Art Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa…
Greenpeace Open Call - 3 x £10,000 awards & shared production budget of £45,000. Confront role of the UK’s industrial food system in the climate crisis. UK only (15 Jan)
Archisource Drawing of the Year – £30,000 worth of prizes, all entries receive the full Affinity Design/Photo Publisher 2 suite! Drawing related to architecture, design or the built environment. UK & Int (31 Jan).
The Blunden Prize - £75,000 award, create and oversee five public artwork projects at Stonewater’s affordable housing developments in Leeds, UK only (27 Jan)
World Illustration Awards - £2,000 1st prize, £1,000 new talent, UK & Int (14 Feb)
UK Art Competitions - 21 prizes open.
Photo Competitions
International competitions newly opened on MoMa…
LensCulture Art Photography Awards - $10,000 prizes & London show (14 Dec)
PX3 2022 - $5,000 1st prize, Paris exhibition & book (8 May)
International Photography Awards - $47,000 of prizes (14 Aug)
Photo Competitions - 11 open
Kids Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa…
International Comic/Manga School Contest - $21,000 of prizes & Wacom gear (10 Apr)
Children’s Art Competitions - 19 open.
Gifts for Good
Social Bite - buy a homeless or vulnerable person a Christmas dinner for £5.
TLC Deck of Cards - biennial art project bringing together 54 artists to create unique decks of cards, profits fund the training of healthcare professionals in developing countries. Buy Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 at £15 each.
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Mindful Journey - exhibition of paintings by MoMa reader Alina V. Valcean, St.Eugene De Mazenod Primary School Hall, London, map (10 Dec, 2-8pm).
Self proclaimed ‘Polar Bear Guy’ Martin Gregus gets my vote in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition…
See you next week,
Grant