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 2017 - Evening 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.

• 28 June 2017 - Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize: Get inspired yesteryear these famous paintings of London - a real prissy article highlighting a divulge of paintings of London done previously yesteryear artists at unlike times as well as inwards unlike styles. Still no sign of whatever details of how to enter. It finishes To uncovering out to a greater extent than virtually the prize, which closes on September 24, acquire to standard.co.uk/artprize and justice which page we're dorsum to!  
• 5 July 2017- Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize: Turner thespian picks upward his ain paintbrush for our £10,000 prize - Not certain virtually the marketplace segment analysis which informed this article - equally inwards I'm non besides certain this is the kind of marketing which is actually going to engage alongside the professional person creative somebody as well as fine art educatee community!
• 17 August 2017 - Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize: Where to acquire to pigment inwards London - Great thought but it's a VERY incomplete listing of places where people tin acquire to paint. Do these people KNOW where the fine art schools are inwards London?  Again the link is dorsum to the page alongside no information virtually how to enter. Has it been changed since the fine art contest closed? Did it e'er create got whatever information?  Where did the people who entered acquire their information virtually what to do from?
• 18 September  2017 - Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize: Idris Khan signs upward equally a justice for £10k prize (7 shares)
• 22 September 2017 - Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize: Your finally conduct a chance to move into for £10k prize - It mentions the deadline is presently - finally I've constitute out something virtually the deadline as well as what you lot tin move into 2 days earlier the deadline!!!

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.

• 26 Oct 2017 - Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize: The shortlisted artists inwards the frame for £10k prize - Video of the Arts Editor of the Evening Standard at the offices of Hiscox talking virtually the competition. We meet images of diverse artworks. There is no reference to what the championship is as well as who the creative somebody is. Very disappointing. Obviously this contest is all virtually the Evening Standard as well as Hiscox
• 27 Oct 2017 - in that location is an article announcing the winner - Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize: Helen Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Pritchard's abstract 'love missive of the alphabet to London' wins £10k prize (144 shares) - The South African-born artist's icon shell over 200 other industrial plant to the £10k prize - another video alongside the proclamation of who won the prize as well as why.  The trial seems to live the kind where lots of people who know picayune virtually fine art drinkable Prosecco as well as verbalize to ane some other as well as pointedly ignore the art.  Then finally.... equally I scrolled downwardly the article I constitute a listing of the artists who got shortlisted for the prize (but no unique URL for the slideshow - which is a wretched show!)

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

Interestingly, MSN News provided a much to a greater extent than accessible overview of 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

• Wintery Waterloo Bridge yesteryear who won the £10,000 Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize this year. No prizes for guessing who I would create got given the prize to!  I've been featuring his artwork on this weblog for years!
• Wood Green yesteryear Katherine Lubar
• View from the Tate Modern by Kieran Luke Naish - Kieran won the origin People's Prize of the Lynn Painter-Stainer's competition. The icon shortlisted for this contest also won the populace vote at LPS
• Urban Concrete yesteryear Gail Seres-Woolfson - Gail graduated alongside a First Class Diploma inwards Fine Art from The Art Academy inwards July 2017 (i.e. ane of the places which taught fine art mentioned inwards the July article)
• Trident Turf Wars – ES News Print by Robert Adam - plainly some deep pregnant to this ane which is inexplicable to me
• To Make a Sculpture by Helen Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Pritchard - the winner
• Thames Mudlark by Jackie Clark
• Shoreditch by Fabienne Jenny Jacquet
• Sand as well as Stone Waiting to live Something, Pudding Mill Lane by Emma Sophie Wilson
• Hand Car Wash, Salmon Lane by Doreen Fletcher who's in all likelihood the solely creative somebody other than Christopher who has produced a lot of paintings of London as well as virtually the East End - as well as I know the automobile launder inwards her icon equally it's virtually a mile from where I live!

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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