Mountain Art Prize
$130k worth of prizes, free to enter competitions, Ukraine kids art workshops, art resources
E.SUN Awards
Hi! Apologies for the less than weekly summer schedule – this week’s featured competition surfaces once every 5 years so it could be worse. The E.SUN Awards invites artists working in oil, acrylic or gouache to paint their interpretation of Yushan (aka Mount Jade/Jade Mountain) the highest peak in Taiwan. A new international category hosts a US$130,000 prize fund & 1st prize of $36,000.
Winning works in each category will feature in a traveling exhibition around Taiwan in Nov-Dec (all international shipping costs covered). Closes 31st August 2022. More info.
Source images: Deposit Photos, Peak Visor, Dreamstime.
Inspiration: Previous entries/winners from 2012/2017. Read our interview with Sam Gare on her love of painting mountains.
Free Art Competitions
Well look at these with no entry fees:
RSA William Littlejohn Award - £2,000 prize, Scottish born/based (26 Jun)
ACS Studio Prize - £4,500 towards artist’s studio costs, UK/EU/EEA (30 Jun)
D31 Art Prize - £1,000 prize fund, Doncaster exhibition, UK & Int. (19 Aug)
Theo Paphitis Art Prize - £6,000 prize fund, drawing & painting, UK & Int. (31 Jul)
Global Healthcare Illustration Awards - £6,000 prize fund, UK & Int. (15 Aug)
Not much new this week but still plenty open:
UK Art Competitions - 30 open
Kid’s Art Competitions - 11 open
Photography Competitions - 6 open
Ukraine Kids Art Workshops
London based artist Pure Evil flies to Lviv, Ukraine as part of Voices of Children to run workshops with kids. A moving reminder of art’s power to connect and heal. HumanityNFT is a group art show featuring Pure Evil, Ben Aine, Joe Webb and others to raise money for Voices of Children. (launches 31st June)
“Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.” — Anni Albers
Free colour study packs from Taiwanese-American visual artist James Jean
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 Sales on Instagram - a free VAA Art Café with Helga Stentzel (2pm GMT, 25th Aug)
Also Reading
The Reinvention and Adventures of an Abstract Artist - author Neal Bascomb weaves a captivating story of Emilio Perez, a Brooklyn based artist, on finding success, losing his flow state then rediscovering it through oil painting.
The work of Scottish woodcarver David Robinson…
See you next week,
Grant