Malta Biennale, Photo Awards & Youth Prizes
€13k grants, $35k World Photo Awards, Beano art contest, Van Gogh's Cypresses, art jobs...
Hi! This week’s edition features several competitions not listed on MoMa.co.uk so be sure to click on the direct links below if not listed on the main competition pages.
Selected artists for the maltabiennale.art 2024 will receive grants of up to €13,000 to create ‘challenging, curious and immersive experiences’ for the Malta Biennale at MUŻA (Museum of Fine Arts) from March-May 2024.
The theme of ‘white sea olive groves’ reflects an ‘island that has been challenged in finding its place in existing histories of contemporary Western and non-Western art due to its periods of colonisation and location; that is, being located in the centre of the Mediterranean and on the periphery of Europe’. Entry is free (closes 25 August)
Competition Categories
Currently open on MoMa and elsewhere…
Biodiversity Drawing Contest - €1,200 prize fund, Scientific Drawing & Nature Drawing categories, global, €5 entry (14 Jul)
Mote Park Art Competition - £500 prize fund, art celebrating Mote Park, Maidstone. Any medium, including sculpture and textiles, but no photography, free, UK (15 Sep)
UK Art Competitions - 35 prizes open
Illustration Competitions - 4 open
Photo Competitions
Countryfile Calendar Competition - £1,500 of prizes, theme: ‘Wild Britain’, 12 photos selected for Countryfile 2024 Calendar for BBC Children in Need, UK, free entry (3 Jul)
Head On Photo Awards - 3 x AUD$10,000 (approx £5,300) for winners in Portrait, Landscape & Environmental categories, global, £16 entry (16 Jul)
Sony World Photography Awards - $35,000 of prizes, global, free entry (12 Jan)
Photography Competitions - 10 open
Children’s Art Competitions
Beano Birthday competition - See your creation in a mini-magazine and win a special Gnasher medal! Draw or write about what's cool about being a kid in 2023 (28 Jun)
Design a Chelsea show garden - £100 gardening gift vouchers for your school (30 Jun)
Young Close-up Photographer of the Year - win a Sigma 105mm F2.8 Macro Art lens woth £699, ages 17 and under, global, £5 entry (9 Jul)
Mangrove Art Contest - open to all children worldwide, with selected winners published in the 2024 calendar to be distributed internationally to raise awareness of mangrove forest ecology (31 July)
Sony World Photography Awards: Youth Competition - win Sony digital imaging equipment, age 18 and under, global, free entry (5 Jan)
Children’s Art Competitions - 13 open
Banksy - Cut and Run at GoMA - Banksy’s first ‘official’ exhibition in 14 years opens in Glasgow featuring 25 years of stencils (15 Jun - 28 Aug). “I’ve kept these stencils hidden away for years, mindful they could be used as evidence in a charge of criminal damage. But that moment seems to have passed, so now I’m exhibiting them in a gallery as works of art. I’m not sure which is the greater crime”.
Impressive exhibition tour of ‘Van Gogh's Cypresses’ at The Met (closes 27th 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.
UK artist Alex Kelly is giving his Substack subscribers a free 1 hour alla prima demonstration in oil this Sunday (25th June at 4-5pm BST / 12-1pm EDT)
See you next week,
Grant