Brand New!! The 2D Derwent Fine Art Prize - Telephone Phone For Entries

Heads upward - the telephone telephone for entries for The sec Derwent Art Prize for industrial plant created inward pencil has been published.

My common summary of the data contained inward the Call for Entries is below nevertheless since this is a novel prize final yr I idea I'd render a recap of what happened inward terms of selection, prizes as well as exhibition. I wrote 3 posts nearly the Prize as well as the Exhibition which you lot tin read here:

The Derwent Art Prize - a discussion (20 July 2013) - this commencement postal service is specially relevant to those whose sense of pencil fine art is express to realistic as well as hyper-realistic artwork
Chrys Allen wins initiatory Derwent Art Prize for pencil art (19 September 2013) - This postal service also provides images as well as to a greater extent than data nearly the artwork which won prizes final year
Derwent Art Prize 2013 - Selected Works & Artists (23 July 2013) This postal service includes a listing of the names of the selected artists as well as links to their websites where these could survive identified.

Announcement of the Prizes
at The initiatory Derwent Art prize Exhibition final September at the Mall Galleries

The Derwent Art Prize

Aim of the Competition

The aim of the Prize is to vantage excellence through showcasing the real best international industrial plant created inward pencil.

Second Exhibition

It's expected that or hence lxxx industrial plant volition survive selected for the exhibition. These volition hence survive displayed inward London, Cumbria as well as online every bit follows

The Exhibition for the Derwent Art Prize 2014 volition opened upward at the Mall Galleries inward London (15th - 20th September 2014)
A pick from the exhibition volition hence survive shown at The Pencil Museum, Keswick, Cumbria CA12 5NG from 1 Dec 2014 – nine Jan 2015.
All selected artists volition also survive featured inward the gallery on the Derwent Art Prize website. This volition opened upward on 21st July 2014.

You tin also await that artwork volition survive published on The Derwent Art Prize Facebook Page

Prizes

The prize fund for 2014 has been significantly increased and, inward addition, in that place is a novel prize for a Young Artist nether the historic menses of 25.

Chrys Allen
Winner of the Inaugural Derwent Art Prize 2012
amongst Professor Stephen Farthing

The prizes volition survive awarded at the Private View at the Mall Galleries, London on xv September 2013 as well as are every bit follows:

First Prize £6,000
Second Prize £3,500
Third Prize £1,000
People's Choice Award – Exhibition £700
People's Choice Award – All entries £700
Young Artist Award – For artists nether 25 years £500 This is a novel prize awarded to an creative someone nether 25 years on nine June 2014.
UK Coloured Pencil Society Award for Excellence £250

Selectors

The contest rules province that all industrial plant volition survive judged anonymously amongst no segregation past times country, genre or fashion etc.

The selectors who volition survive judging the entries are listed below. I establish or hence interesting references to their past times lives as well as related interests as well as you lot powerfulness similar to click a link or two.

Kate Macfarlane is Co-Founder as well as Co-Director of The Drawing Room (http://www.facebook.com/drawingroom.org.uk), the solely public, non-profit gallery inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland as well as Europe dedicated to the investigation as well as presentation of international contemporary drawing.
Josh Spero is the arts critic for Tatler who describes himself on his Twitter account
@joshspero as Editor @spearsmagazine; fine art critic @tatleruk; quondam Classics tutor; trustee @oxhse; unchic Dalstonian. Trying to accept a non-fic mass published. He also writes for The Times, The Independent, as well as The Guardian (described every bit an upstart arts writer). He is a regular invitee on CNBC, the BBC World Service as well as other TV as well as radio channels.
Professor Anita Taylor is a painter, Co-Founder as well as Director of Jerwood Drawing Prize as well as Dean of Bath School of Art as well as Design (links to an 'artspeak' interview). Previously been Director of The Centre for Drawing at the University of the Arts, London as well as Dean of Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London as well as head of the National Art School, Sydney. She also paints and is also on Twitter @AnitaTaylor_

Call for Entries

As ever amongst Calls for Entry I render you lot amongst my overview as well as analysis of what they're cry for you lot to do.

If intending to submit an entry exercise also brand certain you lot read

the Full Conditions of Entry carefully
the answers to the Frequently Asked Questions

The contest as well as exhibition organisers are Parker Harris. Further enquiries nearly the contest should survive addressed to Parker Harris, on: derwent@parkerharris.co.uk or Tel. + 44 (0) 1372 462190 - only exercise aspect at the FAQs first!

Who tin enter?

Nationality: The Prize is opened upward to all British as well as international artists
Age: All entrants must survive over the historic menses of xviii years onetime on ninth July 2014. You also accept to survive alive!
NEW (I cry upward as well as I'm guessing this is every bit a effect of something that happened final year): H5N1 tertiary political party agency (such every bit a gallery) tin teach into piece of employment only must confirm must confirm they accept the total ascendency as well as legal correct to submit work, that data nearly the creative someone as well as artwork has been provided after consultation amongst the creative someone as well as that the tertiary political party is also leap past times the Competitions of Entry

Eligible artwork

Artwork eligible for this contest must comply amongst the next criteria:

Media: artwork must survive created inward PENCIL (including water-soluble, pastel, graphite, charcoal or colouring pencils). That's my emphasis on the pencils. I promise the selectors exercise likewise. I personally idea or hence of the entrants whose piece of employment was selected were pushing their luck on this final year. Hopefully this yr the selectors volition survive a fleck to a greater extent than rigorous inward differentiating betwixt charcoal as well as charcoal pencils! I'm wondering whether nosotros volition run across whatsoever videos accompanying entries of artwork inward pencil and/or whether they would survive allowed.
Format: opened upward to both 2 dimensional as well as 3 dimensional works.
Size: maximum size: 182cms whatsoever dimension. There is no minimum size limit.
Date completed: All entered piece of employment must accept been completed inside the final 3 years.
Availability: All artwork selected for exhibition must survive available from 1st September 2014 to Jan 2015
For Sale / Price of artwork: Works selected for exhibition MAY survive offered for sale. Pricing the artwork needs to element inward a accuse of 40% committee plus VAT @20% levied on the sale cost of all industrial plant sold during the exhibitions or after conduct every bit a effect of the Derwent Art Prize both at the exhibitions as well as on the website.

Inadmissable industrial plant

NEW THIS YEAR: Nothing was said final yr nearly industrial plant which were inadmissible. I'm guessing or hence naughty people accept prompted both Derwent as well as the organisers to survive real much clearer at the Call for Entries phase this yr every bit to what type of piece of employment is non eligible for exhibition or prize.

So inadmissible industrial plant include

Work that does non check inside the Conditions of Entry volition non survive admissible as well as volition non survive considered for exhibition.
The next are also inadmissible:

Copies of works i.e. I'd translate this every bit pregnant no copying other people's photographs or artwork. It could survive clearer.
Works that are inward breach of copyright Last yr entries used an ikon currently nether copyright without written permission?
Works that accept been previously exhibited This is significant. It agency all piece of employment which is entered must survive novel piece of employment as well as non previously seen inward an exhibition. I'm all inward favour of this. I honour it real ho-hum going to prestigious fine art competitions solely to run across a slice of piece of employment I've seen earlier inward or hence other similar exhibition.
Work that contain noxious or toxic substances, are flammable below 50°C or comprise unsafe electrical equipment ie must adjust to all wellness as well as security standards as well as regulations. (Pretty much a criterion type of requirement although it makes me wonder if somebody lathered on the solvent final year)

The contest is non opened upward to employees of the Cumberland Pencil Co, ACCO (UK) Ltd, their families as well as its agencies

What to submit - online

Entry is digital as well as artists demand to register for an line organisation human relationship earlier they tin submit their entry

The confusing instructions from final yr seem to accept been smoothed out although the deviation betwixt pixels every bit a size as well as dpi every bit a resolution has soundless to sink in. Just teach for the maximum dpi you lot tin accomplish amongst those pixel limits (between grand as well as 300 pixels either dimension, as well as the file size.)

Fees for entry accept risen along amongst the prize money.

Artists are required to submit the following:

Entry form - completed online
Images: up to six recent works, inward digital format

image size: images must survive betwixt grand x 3000 pixels resolution; min grand x grand as well as max. 3000 x 3000 pixels.
file format: jpg,
maximum size: max. 4MB file size (no min)

Fee: H5N1 non-refundable £15 application fee for the commencement piece of employment as well as £5 per additional works (price as well as currency volition vary depending on country).

Timeline

The piece of employment selected for exhibition must survive available from 1st September to 31 Jan 2015.

Date(s)	Action
12 pm GMT ninth June 2014	Deadline for entry
11th July 2014	All artists notified of results of the commencement phase of the pick process
w/c 1st September 2014	Deliver piece of employment to the Mall Galleries
150-20th September 2014	Inaugural Exhibition at the Mall Galleries
15th September 2014	Private View as well as Prize Winners announced
October 2014 - Jan 2015	UK Exhibition Tour (work selected must survive available for this menses every bit good every bit the Mall Galleries exhibition)

Delivery of work

The entry atmospheric condition are real explicit nearly the way inward which piece of employment should survive submitted - for both United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland as well as International Artists. There are no regional collection points as well as it is expected that artists non living inward London volition demand to move courier services every bit industrial plant must survive delivered unwrapped.

Insurance

Derwent are solely liable for whatsoever negligence on their part. Artists may want to ensure they accept appropriate comprehend for all other risks e.g. harm inward transit.

Copyright / Withdrawal of work

Each creative someone past times entering the Derwent Art Prize confirms that they concur all intellectual holding rights inward the piece of employment as well as that they accept obtained prior written approving for the move of whatsoever tertiary political party copyrighted fabric contained inward the submitted work.

In other words this needs to survive an master copy piece of employment of fine art as well as no other ikon tin survive copied without the written approving of the copyright possessor of that image. (If you lot are unclear nearly copyright run across Copyright for Artists)

The exhibition organisers also signal that they volition deny entry or remove a piece of employment from exhibition if in that place is anything to advise that exhibiting the piece of employment exposes Derwent to legal proceedings.

Sale of work

I'm bemused past times these 2 statements which The Cumberland Pencil Company powerfulness desire to banking concern check amongst their taxation advisers ie you lot cannot levy VAT unless you lot accept or hence form of status to exercise hence inward terms of human relationship amongst the seller!

The Cumberland Pencil Company does non human action every bit the artist’s agent or partner, as well as has no ascendency to negotiate or conclude the sale of a work.

and

The Cumberland Pencil Company volition levy 40% plus VAT committee on all industrial plant sold during the exhibitions or after conduct every bit a effect of the Derwent Art Prize both at the exhibitions as well as on the website.