Brand New!! Heaven Arts Portrait Creative Someone Of The Twelvemonth 2014 - Telephone Telephone For Entries

Entries for the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014 unopen on 1st May.

Last twelvemonth some 1,800 artists entered the contest together with 84 artists were chosen to participate inward the regional heats. Below you lot tin respect close the contest together with how to enter.

Before reading on you lot hit demand to intend close the implications of this beingness a contest alongside a fourth dimension bound of 4 hours for the production of a portrait. This favours some media over others together with the fast worker over those who are slower. It thus cannot live close finding the best portrait creative someone so much every bit the 1 who produces the best operate inside defined fourth dimension limits.

About the competition

Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014 volition aim to discovery together with raise artists of all capabilities who desire to showcase their skills, whether amateur, professional person or hobbyist.

The contest invites artists shortlisted from the entries to 1 of vi regional heats over summertime 2014.

The heats volition withdraw maintain house in:

London on Tuesday 27th together with Midweek 28th May
Dublin on sun 15th June
Edinburgh on Tuesday eighth together with Midweek ninth July
Cardiff on sun 13th July

One alter this twelvemonth is that this twelvemonth at that topographic point are vi groups of 12 artists rather than 4 groups of 21 together with so the artists volition larn to a greater extent than of a hazard to larn to know each other.

The winners from the heats volition together with so withdraw maintain business office inward to a greater extent than extraordinary portrait challenges with

the semi-final to live held inward London and
the grand concluding taking house at the National Portrait Gallery.

The overall winner volition live chosen yesteryear the series’ judges together alongside Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery.

The contest is to live filmed over the summer. The excogitation is together with so to broadcast the programmes close the heats together with the concluding on Sky Arts inward Oct (8 x lx infinitesimal series, 1 x ninety infinitesimal final, starts Oct on Sky Arts 1 HD)

What the creative someone needs to do....

.....is:

get selected for a regional oestrus based on the digital files of their artwork submitted alongside the entry form
produce a portrait at the regional oestrus of 1 of iii famous sitters - while working inward unfamiliar environment together with less than ideal atmospheric condition to a fourth dimension bound at the same fourth dimension every bit they are filmed yesteryear TV cameras!

The judges together with so pick out only 1 creative someone to buy the farm through to the adjacent circular of the contest afterwards viewing the industrial plant at the destination of each regional heat.

The publicist for the contest sent me this data when I asked them close this

there are breaks around the 4 hours together with the artists tin operate through their breaks together with luncheon if they wishing together with withdraw maintain luncheon at their easel so they tin larn to a greater extent than time. Also the artists withdraw maintain gone through based on their self-portrait together with so the hateful solar daytime is a procedure together with the judges sympathize that everyone industrial plant differently together with the artists volition live looking at the techniques, styles, interpretation of the scene together with so it the portrait on the hateful solar daytime volition live every bit completed every bit the creative someone wants it to be.

It’s an enjoyable hateful solar daytime (we had nix but wonderful feedback from the artists that took business office lastly year) together with at that topographic point is line per unit of measurement area but it’s to a greater extent than the line per unit of measurement area that the artists’ seat on themselves. The judges are at that topographic point inward a supportive exercise throughout the hateful solar daytime together with already dearest the artists because they withdraw maintain seat them through based on their self-portrait already.

What are the prizes?

The winner volition live awarded a £10,000 major committee for the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The prize committee volition live exhibited at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery together with volition buy the farm business office of its permanent fine art collection.
The serial finalists volition reckon their operate exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery for a month.
The winner volition also have a year’s provide of fine art materials courtesy of leading fine fine art supplier Cass Art.

In improver I'm told that Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of artists truly did larn commissions together with publicity together with positive feedback to aid their career only yesteryear taking business office inward the competition

Who tin enter?

Anyone aged sixteen together with over is invited to apply. If you lot are aged nether 18, parental consent is required.
You demand to withdraw maintain been resident inward the Britain for the 2 years prior to 27 March 2014
Winners of the Regional Heats inward the 2013 Sky Arts Portrait of the Year, including the overall Competition Winner, are non eligible to move into again.

What to submit?

You demand to submit

a digital photograph of 1 self portrait (complete operate - non only the fleck you lot like!) that you lot withdraw maintain completed inward the lastly 5 years (digital photograph - depression resolution jpeg solely maximum size 1MB i.e. suitable for viewing on a screen).

The self-portrait tin live inward whatever art media other than photography, video, sculpture or whatever shape of digital media.
If selected, you lot can't move into in 1 trial again alongside the same self-portrait you lot used lastly year.
Note that if you lot are selected the master copy self-portrait must live provided for the heats event (i.e. it's pointless trying to brand your paradigm await amend inward the photograph than it truly is every bit they'll doubtless compare your submission to the artwork)

a passport sized photograph of yourself (no to a greater extent than than 500 kb) (please transportation no to a greater extent than than 1 paradigm of each operate - images should non plow over 1MB). These should also live jpegs.
a photograph of upwards to 2 farther industrial plant of fine art which demand non live portraits (which struck me every bit pretty featherbrained given this is a portrait competition!)

The size of the artwork entered alongside the application must non plow over 48”x36” (1220 x 914mm).

How to enter

The data close how to move into tin live institute on Apply For Portrait Artist 2014 - the truly detailed data is on the FAQs page (see below)

Entry is digital inward price of both artwork together with entry form.

Given that this is choice yesteryear digital photograph, potential entrants demand to think that real often it's the lineament of the photographs that decides who gets selected - yesteryear which I hateful misfortunate photographs of proficient paintings don't tend to larn chosen. Also...

...The image(s) of the Portrait Entry together with the Additional Work(s) of Art must non live manipulated inward whatever means together with must live of the operate of fine art entered.

You demand to:

read the terms together with conditions
read these frequently asked questions close the application process
read their advice close How to photograph art
review, consummate together with submit a completed Application form together alongside the digital images

Deadline for entries: closes at 12pm (midday) on 1st May 2014.

I'd dearest somebody to explicate to me how the next got into the midpoint of the price together with conditions!!! See if you lot tin spot it.....

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Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014

The next are links to articles together with spider web log posts close lastly year's competition

Artist who created raunchy paradigm of important Kate Middleton to live hanged... or at to the lowest degree his pictures are at the National Portrait Gallery
Luis Morris: Sky Arts Portrait Artist Of The Year - Blog |Cass Art - Luis won the London heat.
portraits yesteryear Gregory Wellman – BLOG -

Through to the lastly 84 artists inward Sky Arts Competition! - which incluses the self-portrait he submitted every bit his entry
Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year Part 3