RBA Open Call
£5,000 prize fund, €50,000 craft prize, new art books, create a comic, Banksy show...
Hi hi. Whatever you do this weekend, do it with the enthusiasm of Kipchoge's Bottle Man at the Berlin marathon. On with the art stuff…
The Royal Society of British Artists Open Call invites international submissions from painters, sculptors and printmakers for consideration to be shown in their Annual Exhibition in London, March 2023. A prize fund worth over £5,000 includes a top prize of £1,500 for the best artwork from life by an artist aged 35 or under. View previous prize winners.
All work must be for sale with a min price of £300 (including a commission of 45%+VAT). Submission fee is £20 per work, £14 for artists aged 35 or under. More info.
New Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa & elsewhere…
Loewe Foundation Craft Prize - €50,000 1st prize, reinterpret tradition to make it relevant now, NYC group show, free to enter (25 Oct)
Arte Laguna Prize - €10,000 prize, the good news: Venice exhibition in Spring 2023, the bad news: crazy high entry fees of €122 for over 35s, €97 under 35s (31 Oct)
Lab.20 Art Prize - €3,000 prize fund, Milan exhibition, €45 entry (30 Nov)
Innovate Artists Grants - $550 for an artist & photographer, $25 fee (31 Dec)
UK Art Competitions - 13 open
Closing Soon
Prisma Art Prize - €500 prize, Rome group show, €25 entry (10 Oct)
Photo Contests
Photo Competitions - 6 open
Kids Competitions
Create a Comic Competition - get your comic published in Storytime magazine, win a book bundle & signed graphic novel, ages 4-9 (30 Nov)
Brain Art competition - £100 of vouchers, Art inspired by 'Connections'. Open to all primary, secondary schools and local community groups in Bristol and surrounding area - North Somerset, Bath and NE Somerset, Somerset, South Glos. (13 Feb)
Children’s Art Competitions - 10 open
Art Book Releases
Picturebook Makers is a beautifully designed book from dPICTUS featuring 12 illustrators from Eva Lindström to Chris Haughton. Though not exactly hot of the press (came out in March) it’s a wonderful gift for the illustrators in your life.
Great Women Painters released by Phaidon this week featuring more than 300 artists spanning five centuries including Hilma af Klint, Eileen Agar, Sofonisba Anguissola, Mary Cassatt, Elaine de Kooning & Yayoi Kusama.
Exhibitions
The Art of Banksy - MediaCity, Salford. 145 iconic pieces. £10-£21 (21 Oct - 8 Jan)
Selection of rare prints added to Stanley Donwood’s newly rebranded store.
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Reading List
How to create a certificate of authenticity for your artwork.
The Life and Times of Hilma af Klint a new graphic novel on the Swedish artist.
How To Be Influenced - The Ruffian on what we can learn from artists.
100 Outstanding Picturebooks highlighted by the most guest curators on dPICTUS.
It’s been a rough week for the capital’s cultural quarters with Edinburgh International Film Festival & Filmhouse going into administration and now the National Galleries of Scotland have issued a closure warning. Sign the Save EIFF/Filmhouse petition.
Ingenious way of painting with light using an iPad + Procreate with a projector…
See you next week,
Grant