Brand New!! Eventide Touchstone Contemporary Fine Art Prize

I'm non quite certain how I managed to fille the introduction, calls for entries as well as diverse videos virtually the NEW London Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize - which offered a £10,000 prize for artwork virtually London. 

Until I started to investigate how it was promoted that is....

27th Oct 2017 - The article announcing the honor of the prize to Helen Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Pritchard

People introducing novel fine art prizes mostly write to me early on, particularly if they offering £10,000 prizes equally that's my basic threshold for taking fine art prizes seriously as well as writing virtually them.

However I justice if you lot are the Evening Standard you lot reckon that you lot tin hold upward without me! ;)

However, speaking personally, I solely read the Evening Standard periodically as well as despite having diverse ways of picking upward intelligence virtually novel fine art prizes I totally missed anything virtually it.

Plus my many readers also tend to tell me virtually things they've read virtually or seen as well as also tell me virtually them as well as inquire when I volition live writing virtually them. However nobody wrote to me virtually it.

So below is a summary of what my agreement is of what happened for those who mightiness live interested should they repeat the do - which is unclear equally I can't uncovering whatever ane website which provides information.

Number of Entries - simply 200!


Before I start, I'd similar to brand the real of import indicate that 200 entries - which is what they state they got - is virtually 10% of what I would await for a serious fine art prize inwards the UK. 

Let's live real generous as well as telephone telephone it 20% of the kind of size of entry fine art prizes alongside a serious origin prize get.

As a upshot I did lots of interrogations of Google to uncovering references to the Call for Entries - as well as could uncovering null other than the Evening Standard posts.

I did uncovering a reference to it on the Evening Standard Facebook Page for Reader Offers - but absolutely no comments on it. 

Then I did a search on Facebook as well as constitute incredibly few references to it. (Art Competitions alongside serious prizes mostly generates lots of activeness on Facebook - lots of likes as well as lots of comments. This ane did neither)

So I tin solely conclude that the marketing mechanism didn't know WHO to contact to acquire coverage inwards damage of artists reading virtually this bully opportunity.  There are listings of people who acquire told virtually fine art competitions - I know I'm on it as well as I acquire told virtually lots - but depict a trouble inwards relation to what I volition cover. I would create got covered this ane - if I'd e'er been told virtually it!

So whatever else nosotros tin state virtually this prize, it's non hard to conclude that:
  • getting the message out virtually this prize FAILED
  • the fine art contest could create got had real many to a greater extent than entries if it had organised itself as well as promoted it rather meliorate than it did
  • The Evening Standard is non plenty to promote an fine art prize as well as acquire a serious entry!
Bottom trouble if I was Hiscox, who were sponsoring the prize, I'd live pretty disappointed.

What happened when as well as where


What nosotros create got are:
  • a webpage for the London Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize - which isn't a page alongside information. 
    • It's simply a Topic Page on the Evening Standard website alongside lots of links to other URLs which focus on the pictures rather than what they are all about. 
    • There are no words and 
    • no Editorial input of "want to uncovering out to a greater extent than - read this". I'm forthwith becoming less confused equally to how come upward I missed it.....
  • 27 Apr 2017Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize: Artists tin win £10,000 for putting London on canvas (8 shares) - Note the divulge of shares! There are a few details virtually who tin move into (open to Britain residents aged eighteen as well as over) as well as the prize - as well as hence it says To uncovering out to a greater extent than as well as move into the London Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize, acquire to standard.co.uk/artprize - which takes is dorsum to my origin link to a higher house - which is sadly missing all the normal information for entering a prize e.g. similar the deadline for entries!  The solely links which human face remotely similar they mightiness Pb to the information virtually how to move into Pb dorsum to the article to a higher house - which doesn't state a unmarried give-and-take virtually "how to enter". Am I missing something? Have I constitute found out why in that location are hence few entries?
They volition live given “London” equally their brief as well as asked to submit a icon alongside the winning work, chosen from a shortlist, announced at an trial at the National Gallery on Oct 26.
If you’ll live putting the finishing touches to your move correct until the concluding hour, brand greenback that no entries volition live considered later midnight this Lord's Day (September 24).
Entries cannot live bigger than 594 x 841 mm, as well as if shortlisted, demand to live sent inwards for judging yesteryear Oct 16.
I couldn't uncovering whatever reference to whatever exhibition - hence no opportunities for sales which are frequently an of import incentive to artists entering fine art competitions.


The shortlisted artists



So hither is the listing of those who got shortlisted - as well as equally I normally do, the links inwards their names are to their websites if you lot desire to meet to a greater extent than of their work

and finally......


I'd live real interested to listen from

  • those running fine art schools or didactics fine art or fine art students inwards London re. whether you lot heard virtually this prize and/or encouraged people to enter.
  • artists who did uncovering out to a greater extent than virtually it - as well as where you lot constitute the information as well as what did it say.

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