Competitions and Prizes: Visual Arts - Art
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Below is a list of organisations which offer competitions or prizes in art. Click on the title for more details.
See also Awards & Bursaries: Visual Arts - Art
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UK
Cartier Award
Deadline: January
Award: 3 month residency at Gasworks from mid September to mid December 2007 including accommodation, per diems and travel expenses; Project production costs of up to £10,000; an artist’s fee of £1,000
Celeste Art Prize
Deadline: January
Award: £2,000
Further Information: The prize was founded in 2005 to promote painting in its widest sense and has a unique selection process whereby the finalists award the prize money in two categories, Artist & Student Artist.
Discerning Eye
Deadline: November
Award: £3000 (maximum)
Further Information: The Discerning Eye is an educational charity giving prizes that encourage to develop a wider understanding and appreciation of the visual arts.
East International
Deadline: unspecified
Award: £5000 (in total)
Further Information: This prize is open to visual artists working in any medium.
The Garrick/Milne Prize
Deadline: June
Award: £35,000 (total)
Further Information: Prizes are offered for depictions of actors and performers during their rehearsals and performances.
The Hunting Art Prizes
Deadline: December
Award: £12,000 top prize,plus various smaller prizes
Further Information: Open to all artists resident in the UK
The Jerwood Drawing Prize
Deadline: July
Award: various
Further Information: This major national award for drawing is now managed by Wimbledon School of Art, in partnership with the University of Gloucestershire
The Jerwood Painting Prize
Deadline: see website
Award: £30,000
Further Information: Open to all UK painters.
The Jerwood Sculpture Prize
Deadline: November
Award: £25,000
Further Information: Open to all UK sculptures.
John Moores Exhibition
Deadline: (biennial)
Award: £25,000 + four prizes of £2,500
Further Information: Collaboration between John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust and the National Museums Liverpool.
Refocus Now Ltd
Deadline: approximately each quarter
Award: various
Further Information: Refocus-now runs four competitions per year.
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition
Deadline: March
Award: £75,000 (in total)
Further Information: Any artist may enter work for selection.
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
Deadline: see website
Award: £1,000
Further Information: Based in Birmingham.
Shrewsbury Open Competition
Deadline: May
Award: £3,000; 1,000; 500
Further Information: Open to all UK and international artists.
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
Deadline: see website
Award: various
Further Information: Limited to paintings in any water based media including gouache and acrylics.
International
Art on the Streets
Deadline: May
Award: $35 000
Further information: Wide range of artistic expression, talent and cultural context for yearlong public art exhibit in high energy district of Colorado’s second largest city. Large-scale, outside-the-box provocative works are encouraged. All media considered as appropriate, safe and durable outdoors.
Artes Mundi Prize
Deadline: see website
Award: £40,000 (organisations)
Further Information: The Prize is an international visual arts prize, established to celebrate visual art from across the globe.
Burnie Print Prize
Deadline: November
Award: various
Further Information: Entries are sought from artists around Australia.
European Biennial Competition for Graphic Art
Deadline: January
Award: £2500, £1000, £750
Further Information: This is a biennial competition, next held in 2007.
The Gallipoli Art Prize
Deadline: March
Award: $15 000
Further Information: Each competitor must either have been born in Australia, New Zealand or Turkey or hold Australian, New Zealand or Turkish citizenship. Each competitor may, at their expense, submit one piece of original work produced in oil, acrylic, water color or mixed. The term of reference to be used is the spirit of the Gallipoli Campaign
Gertrude Herbert Juried Fine Art Competition
Deadline: June
Award: $1 750
Further information: Media_and_applicant_eligibility: Open to US artists ages 18+. Drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture, mixed media accepted. submission_requirements: $25 entry fee covers submission of slides or CD of up to 3 works; $5 each additional work.
L. Ron Hubbard's Illustrators of the Future Contest
Deadline: March, June, September, December
Award: $500 (maximum)
Further Information: All themes of science fiction and fantasy illustrations are welcome.
National Drawing and Paint Competitive Exhibition (USA)
Deadline: January
Award: $1500 (minimum)
Further Information: Open to all US Artists, drawings and prints (not photography) in any medium are eligible.
New England Art Club Drawing Scholarship
Deadline: September
Award: £500
Further Information: Free involvement in selected Drawing School activities also included in the prize.
Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Deadline: 31st March
Award: 150,000; 100,000; 75,000
Further Information: International Competition for the Composition of an Original Painting.
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