Sky Arts Landscape Creative Individual Of The Twelvemonth 2015 - Telephone Weep Upwards For Entries

Yet some other fine art contest on television!  This fourth dimension it's Sky Arts' Landscape Artist of the Year 2015.

It's really definitely worth a human face for the career minded and/or aspiring landscape creative somebody who doesn't heed ikon inwards populace or fifty-fifty on television!

Home Page on the competition's website
Here's what yous demand to exercise if yous fancy ikon landscapes on television. The data has been pulled together from a divulge of sites online. Comments from me close the procedure are inwards italics

Deadline for entries 


We'll get-go alongside the of import fact inwards their telephone telephone for entries!


  • 12pm (midday) on Fri 20th March 2015


Prize


The prize is a £10,000 committee for The National Trust. This makes this contest definitely worth a 2nd look!

Who tin enter


People who are
  • resident inwards the UK, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Mann or Channel Islands for ane twelvemonth or longer on 2nd Feb 2015?
  • landscape painters - that's because yous conduct keep to submit ii landscape paintings alongside your application!
  • a minimum of sixteen years of age. If yous are aged nether 18, parental consent is required.

You are NOT eligible to apply if yous won a rut or the overall contest for the Portrait Artist of the Year run yesteryear Sky Arts.

Note that if yous conduct keep previously applied for Portrait Artist of the Year I'd estimate that it's really probable that they volition review what their conclusion was close yous lastly fourth dimension yous applied.

Note also that this is a contest alongside a meaning prize in addition to I'd human face in that location to live rigid contest from professional person landscape artists. There again, it's potentially high stakes for professional person artists if they're non seen to live goodness plenty to progress. I'd human face in that location to live a lot of entries from those artists making their ain breaks into professional person art. This ane is also goodness an chance to miss.

What form of landscape fine art is allowed?

  • any drawing or ikon media. All of these media learn a tick box on the form - Watercolour, Oil Paints, Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Alkyds, Mixed Media (including collage) "Other"
  • digital media is NOT allowed - therefore photography, video, sculpture or whatsoever shape of digital media are NOT eligible for entry

How to enter


  • Read the terms in addition to conditions (LOTS of small-scale print). Then read them again. Then read them ane time to a greater extent than earlier yous upload your entry.  I cannot emphasise also much how slowly it is to missy or misunderstand an of import dot - in addition to you'll live kicking yourself if yous do!
  • Read the Frequently Asked Questions close the application process. This is a really helpful document - exercise read twice!
  • Complete in addition to submit the online application form. Applications yesteryear ship are non accepted.
  • Upload a passport agency photograph of yourself (maximum size of 500 kb).
  • Upload photographs of your art. Images should live inwards a jpeg format in addition to equally closed to 1MB equally possible alongside a minimum file size of 800KB. My advice would live to respect the balance betwixt pixel size in addition to resolution used which provides the best presentation of your landscape fine art on screen.  Bear inwards heed the screening is really probable to live done using a digital covert (I'm checking this). I don't human face that they volition live printing these out.
    1. A depression resolution jpeg paradigm of a consummate landscape ikon produced inwards the lastly 5 years. The artwork must non exceed 48"x 36" (1220 x 914 mm)
    2. Low resolution jpegs of upwardly to ii farther plant of fine art yesteryear yourself (one photograph per artwork). At to the lowest degree ane MUST live a landscape. 
    3. You exercise demand to ensure that these are images where yous tin also supply a high resolution paradigm if asked for one. My recommendation would live to get-go alongside the high resolution paradigm inwards TIFF in addition to and so relieve it into a NEW jpeg FILE in addition to ONLY later that suit for pixel size in addition to dimensions until you've got the best possible paradigm of the artwork. In other words exercise non mess alongside the high res image! Also don't digitally 'enhance' your artwork or you'll respect you're ane of the ones going dwelling early on or marked downwards equally a 'chancer'!
Note that the website provides advice on how to photograph your artwork - although I mean value I tin amend on their advice for how to shrink a photo!

Only ane entry tin live submitted per somebody - yesteryear the private artist. Entries on behalf of some other somebody volition NOT live accepted. (It precisely wastes their fourth dimension if entries come upwardly on behalf of people who precisely don't desire to live televised.)

What does it toll to enter?


There is no entry fee - however....

In the upshot yous are selected, yous volition live expected to pay for getting yourself in addition to your landscapes to in addition to from the location of your heat, in addition to for whatsoever hotel in addition to subsistence costs. The semi-finalists in addition to finalists volition conduct keep necessary travel, hotel in addition to subsistence costs paid during their subsequent landscape tasks in addition to at the final.

Locations in addition to dates for ikon heats


The locations in addition to dates for this ikon contest are listed below. The Links inwards the dates are to the Facebook Pages for these events. Looks similar the artists are going to conduct keep an audience!

There is no guarantee which rut yous volition live allocated to.

Artists invited to a rut volition live asked to create an artwork depicting a landscape persuasion inside 6 hours.
you volition live given upwardly to 6 hours to consummate your run of art, in addition to all landscapes volition live judged at the destination of ane day, whether they are considered consummate or non yesteryear the artist. However, the landscape yous submitted inwards the application procedure volition also live taken into consideration during the judging procedure at the destination of the day.
I've been talking to the producers in addition to I'm going to attempt in addition to learn to ane of the heats to written report on the process.

The electrical flow innovation is that:
  • The semi-final volition live held on Wed tenth June
  • the 2nd artwork to live produced for the Final volition live created in addition to filmed at the footing famous landscape garden at Stourhead, close Mere, Wiltshire, BA12 6QF on Sun twelfth July 2015

Judges


The proficient judges returning for this series are:
  • Tai Shan Schierenberg painter. I'd e'er idea of Tai Shan equally existence a portrait creative somebody but his website indicates he's painted to a greater extent than than a few landscapes too.
  • Kathleen Soriano, onetime Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts in addition to instantly an Independent Curator in addition to Art Historian Twitter @KclSoriano
  • Kate Bryan, a onetime Director of The Fine Art Society in addition to instantly Director of the London fine art fair Art15 Twitter @KateJBryan
Personally speaking I mean value I prefer the bias of the BBC Painting Challenge towards having judges who are primarily good known for existence painters equally good equally curators in addition to teachers.

How does the judging procedure work?


Landscapes volition live judged on technical ability, originality in addition to potential.

The shortlist of artists for the heats plant equally follows
The judges persuasion the digital images on a covert on a high res covert yesteryear divulge - so they conduct keep no cognition of whom the entry is from. To appointment nosotros conduct keep filmed the procedure so it is completely transparent.
You'll respect out whether or joy made the shortlist yesteryear or soon later Th 2nd April.

At the destination of each rut the Judges listed higher upwardly volition pick out who goes frontward into the adjacent circular equally a semi-finalist. The semi-finalists volition in addition to so compete for ane of 3 places inwards the final.

Those reaching the lastly volition create ii artworks in addition to conduct keep 6 hours to create ane of their lastly landscapes.

One overall winner, the Landscape Artist of the Year, volition live announced at a appointment in addition to location to live confirmed inwards September.
If You are chosen equally the Winner, You must live available betwixt the Final Date in addition to 30th September 2015 to create the Winner's Prize Artwork on exact dates to live determined yesteryear the Producer.

Presenters


Joan Bakewell in addition to Frank Skinner go along to live the presenters.

Joan appears to live a tad bothered yesteryear the novel contest from the BBC! I didn't conduct keep her downwards equally somebody who would heed a flake of salubrious competition. :)

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