Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Lots of new open calls, over £150k of prizes, art jobs & opportunities...

Jan 20, 2022

RA Call For Entries

Hello! It’s goodbye winter break and on with the show as the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition opens for entries on the theme ‘Climate’ and a £50,000+ prize fund.

Watching the BBC’s behind the scenes show always makes me want to take part so I finally waved goodbye to £38 to reserve one of 16,500 entry slots and a scarily short 6 weeks to come up with a finished artwork. Fancy joining me?

Up to 4,000 entries will be shortlisted for the final round - 2021’s showed 1,300 works. Let me know if you get selected for the exhibition and I’ll feature your work here too. Good luck and maybe see you there! More info on MoMa (closes 2 Mar).

British sculptor Alison Wilding leads this year’s committee alongside artists Rana Begum, Grayson Perry, Farshid Moussavi & Conrad Shawcross.

New Art Competitions

RSA Residencies for Scotland - up to £5,000 funds for Scottish artists (23 Jan)

Mote Park Public Art Commission - £15,000 community art project (11 Feb)

Alpine Fellowship - £3,000 + £1k travel/installation costs visual art prize (1 Apr)

Coal Prize 2022 - €10,000 prize & residency, environmental oceanic theme (1 Mar)

Stone Lane Sculpture Exhibition - £1,000 prize, SW England based sculptors (31 Mar)

Wildlife Artist Of The Year - £5,000 prize + £5k conservation voucher (31 Mar)

Deutsche Bank Awards - £60,000 prize fund, creative entrepreneurs age 18-30 (31 Mar)

UK Art Competitions - 22 prizes open.

Photography Competitions - 5 open.

£10,000 Prize Open Call

Free to enter biennial exhibition awarding all exhibiting artists £350 and the chance to win the £10,000 prize. This year’s theme is ‘Sanctuary’. Worldwide entry (31 Jan)

Kids Competitions

RA Young Artists’ Summer Show - open for schools to enter (31 Mar)

Win A Frog Bike - for 5-8 year olds, design your dream bike (30 Jan)

Children’s Art Competitions - 7 open.

Carmen Herrera’s Amarillo “Dos” is the centrepiece to an Upper West Side apartment you probably won’t find on AirBnB. The Cuban born artist sold her first piece at the age of 89 and tells her inspiring story in The 100 Years Show documentary.

Art on TV

Andy Warhol’s America - 3 part series on (BBC iPlayer)

Art on the BBC - Monet, Dali & Van Gogh (BBC iPlayer)

Quentin Blake: The Drawing of My Life (BBC iPlayer)

Watercolour Landscapes Course

Self proclaimed ‘Swedish watercolour nerd’ Christian Koivumaa has a new course on Domestika on Experimental Tools and Techniques that looks super practical.