New Artist of the Year Award
£17,000 prize fund, Amplify mental health art competition, ceramics biennial, design an art billboard & a sock!
Hi all! The not so weekly Summer schedule continues with a welcome batch of mostly free to enter art competitions for UK and International artists.
The Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the Year Award returns with a £10,000 1st prize and £5,000 Public Choice award for UK based artists within the first 10 years of professional practice - 10 of which will be selected for Saatchi Gallery show in November. Free to enter, applications close on 31st August.
Here’s a short film of the 10 selected finalists from over 900 entries last year.
UK Art Competitions
Free to enter newly opened competitions for UK based artists:
Zealous Amplify - £1,000 1st prize, creative works inspired by the themes of mental health and wellbeing. With a total social media following of 70,000 (22 Jul)
Ingram Purchase Prize - 3 artworks to be purchased, artists within 5 years of graduation from a UK based art school, group show, free to enter (12 Sep)
British Ceramics Biennial - £10,000 1st prize, £1k each for 10 finalists, for artists who use clay as their primary medium, group show, free to enter (12 Oct)
UK Art Competitions - 24 open
International Art Competitions
Newly opened competitions for worldwide entries:
Art Moves - £700 prize, The Festival of Art on Billboards in Torun, Poland. Theme: ‘Love or hatred? Truth or falsehood? What should we appreciate in these uncertain times?’ Free to enter (22 Jul)
Faena Prize for the Arts - US $100,000 prize – $25k to winning artist + $75k towards site-specific project to install at Faena Beach during Miami Art Week 2022 (1 Aug)
RBSA Prize Exhibition - £1,000 1st prize, any medium exc. photography, exhibition at Birmingham (UK) gallery, £19 entry fee (16 Aug)
Art on Climate - €2,000 1st prize, free to enter international illustration competition on themes of tackling climate change (19 Aug)
Kids Art Competitions
Newly opened competitions for worldwide entries:
Design-a-Sock Contest - $3,650 of prizes and chance to have your design turned into an actual Sock It to Me sock! UK & International, any ages, free to enter (29 Jul)
Design-a-Dino Contest - ages 6-12, USA residents only (Sep 30)
Kid’s Art Competitions - 10 open
Awards/Grants
Puppet Animation Scotland - Scottish-based artists of any discipline can apply for up to £5,000 to explore creative, training or research projects related to puppetry, object manipulation, visual theatre and animated film (27 Jul)
Innovate Artists Grants - $550 for an artist & photographer each quarter ($25 fee)
‘CAMO 40’ (2022) by Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu.
Photography Competitions - 7 open
New Icons at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre - one of the UK’s biggest ever exhibitions with over 90 works documenting the Street Art movement, and artists that influenced it - inc. Banksy, KAWS, Blek le Rat, Tracey Emin, Invader, Hirst, Pure Evil (16 Jul - 5 Nov)
Making your own oil paint - handy guide by painter Julie Caves on Jackson’s Blog. Conveniently Jackson’s are having a colour sale (ends tomorrow).
‘A call to action to protect the planet for our children’ - ‘Earth Kids’, the 2021 exhibition by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare. James Cohan’s online exhibition illuminates the work with beautiful photos and compelling descriptions.
Isobelle Ouzman repurposes discarded books and journals into artworks. Learn her process on Skillshare, follow on Instagram, buy work in her Etsy Shop.
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 Links
The night Jack Kerouac kept a young woman from taking her own life
Hockney on painting Harry Styles, Picasso and always doing something else
When I Disappeared beautifully written piece by Tonya Morton at Juke
Curtain drama…
See you next week,
Grant
Oh wow! Here I was, just reading along and thinking about how difficult it is for artists to balance their work with the need to apply for grants and awards... and then, wow, that Isobelle Ouzman video is so incredible... when out of nowhere, my name appeared. That's an amazing feeling! Thank you so much, Grant. I'm so glad you liked the piece. Also, that video at the end is GOLD.