Women in Art Prize, £75k Public Art Prize, £12k COAL Prize
Small But Mighty printmaking show, £5,000 prize for 13-18 year olds, Illustration prize, art jobs...
Hi! Hope your life/art/work juggling skills are in finer form than me. Thanks to all who’ve shared upcoming art competitions and awards. Some highlights this week…
Formerly the Holly Bush Prize, the Women in Art Prize, celebrating the work of emerging women artists, returns for its 7th outing with a £6,000 prize fund and new artistic mediums of printmaking and illustration to add to painting & photography. Prizes include a £1,500 award to artists of African & Caribbean heritage, £1,000 award to the best painting and the £1,000 Eve Arnold Award for best photograph.
London based artist Svetlana Semenova won the painting prize last year with her work ‘Beth’. There will be a London exhibition for 22 finalists later this year.
Open to UK based artists or enter the Best Overseas category if further afield. The £25 entry fee allows you to submit 2 works, £15 for students. (closes 30th June).
Art Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa and elsewhere…
The Blunden Prize - £75,000 award and £85,000 budget for a UK based artist working in any discipline to put forward an outdoor art proposal at Stonewater’s affordable homes site at Elm Fields Farm in Coventry. The winner will also receive two additional commissions for public art at other Stonewater developments. View the 2024 brochure. Sculptor Patrick Walls was last year’s winner. Free entry, UK (26 Apr)
Dartford Exhibition & Mentorship Opportunity - 4 x £2,000 awards to artists from ethnically diverse backgrounds with connections to Dartford or surrounding area. By artist Habib Hajallie with support from Arts Council England, free entry (30 Apr)
COAL Prize - £12,000 1st prize & funded art residency in NE France, run by the scientific & educational teams at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and the Domaine de Belval, theme: ‘Being Transformative’, 2023 winners, free to enter, global (5 May)
Small But Mighty - £800+ worth of prizes, all forms of printmaking up to 50cm, London exhibition at Bankside Gallery, £16/£10 entry, UK & Int (3 Jun)
UK Art Competitions - 22 open
Photography Competitions - 7 open
Fiyinfoluwa Adeniji, 11, made 1m naira ($1,300) from selling two paintings last year at The Lagos gallery helping children make a living from their art (The Guardian)
Children’s Art Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa…
Y Talent Award - £5,000 1st prize + 10 day residency at ‘Twelve Behind’ retreat in Guizhou, China inc. 5 star accom & meals (make own travel). Organised by Ruthin School, Wales, curated by artist Yue Minjun, ages 13-18, global (12 Apr)
Kid’s Art Competitions - 22 open
Illustration Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa…
Macmillan Prize for Illustration - £1,000 1st prize, awarded for an unpublished children’s picture book, submit pencil sketches of complete book, UK (26 Apr)
Illustration Competitions - 2 open
Pigrotto is a large-scale installation in Marostica, Italy that visitors are encouraged to interact with. Initiated by Italian filmaker Lorenzo Fonda in memory of his late wife, illustrator Elena Xausa. Based on a tiny clay sculpture that she modeled before her cancer diagnosis. Movingly documented in this video for the crowdfunding campaign.
Arts For Impact
Big Give’s Arts for Impact Campaign will double your donation to your choice of over 200 UK based impactful arts and culture charities (until 26th March)
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 residencies at resartis and TransArtists.
Reading List
Sharon Stone on why she swapped acting for art (Guardian)
Eight landscape artists share their methods & tips for painting on location (Jackson’s)
22 questions about art sales answered, from prints to social media (theprintspace)
How to make your own artist’s book, a work of art in the form of a book (Jackson’s)
Nice shot of the new Bansky near Finsbury Park (before it was defaced).
See you next time,
Grant