Theo Paphitis Art Prize
£5,000 Drawing & Painting Prize, Hockney Exhibition, Ukraine Charity Sale, Art Jobs...
Theo Paphitis Art Prize
Hi hi. Hope you’re in as good form as our cherry blossoms. This week’s featured prize is a new free to enter competition from Dragon’s Den entrepreneur and owner of London Graphic Centre, Theo Paphitis. Open to UK Residents 18 and over.
Submit your art in any painting or drawing media for a chance to win the £5,000 1st prize (+£750 art materials) or £2,000 People’s Choice Award (closes 31 July)
UK Art Competitions - 29 open
Photography Competitions - 10 open
Kids Competitions
RSPCA T-Shirt Competition - see your animal art reimagined, age 6-12, UK (18 May)
Kid’s Art Competitions - 12 open.
Saatchi Art’s Charity Sale to Support Ukraine will provide hot meals for Ukraine refugees. Includes above work by Fares Micue who we interviewed back in 2020.
Salts Mill - Hockney Show
Formerly shown at the Musee de L’Orangerie in Paris, Hockney’s 90 metre long frieze ‘A Year in Normandie’ will be shown at the wonderful Salts Mill Gallery in West Yorkshire (4 May - 18 Sep). Well worth the trip and an excellent offline & online shop. The massive Grand Canyon poster below (£70) is way cheaper than I paid. See also our Hockney posters page.
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 Reads
A high school English teacher asked pupils to write a famous author & ask for advice - an 84 year old Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond, he doesn’t disappoint.
“A dolphin in an astronaut suit on saturn” welcome to the alternative universe of DALL·E 2 - a new AI system that creates realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
Stuart Humphryes cleans & transforms early colour photographs, his Twitter feed is well worth a scroll through…
See you next week,
Grant