Brand New!! Wild Fauna Creative Individual Of The Twelvemonth 2015 - Telephone Scream Upward For Entries

The Wildlife Artist of the Year 2015 fine art competition has issued its telephone weep upward for entries. This is its eighth yr together with the contest is straight off accepting submissions until Feb 13th 2015 for its annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries.

Flyer for the Wildlife Artist of the Year 2015

This is a good known together with reputable fine art contest run past times the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. Its job is to heighten funds for relieve endangered wildlife. It is a contest which attracts entries from both well-known professional person wild animals artists together with newcomers together with amateurs. Emerging artists aged betwixt 17 together with 25 years onetime larn a category all to themselves!

The contest culminates inwards a really pop calendar week long exhibition at the Mall Galleries inwards London betwixt 29th June - fourth July 2015. All profits are donated to back upward wild animals conservation.

Every yr the contest gets improve together with improve together with the sum nosotros heighten to relieve endangered wild animals increases. It is such a thrill for me to know that then many portion my passion for fine art together with for wildlife.
David Shepherd CBE

Categories for entries

Below are the formal categories for entries. Note inwards detail that, apart from the wild animals portrait categories all artwork tin include tin include landscapes, works life & fauna.

There's besides a particular plea from the website to shout out back non to forget British Wildlife. It doesn't all create got to endure wild animals on dusty plains inwards Africa!

Endangered Wildlife – threatened on endangered (as determined past times the electrical flow IUCN Red List run into http://www.iucnredlist.org/)
Wildlife inwards 3D – sculpture inwards whatever medium
Wildlife inwards Monochrome – inwards tones of whatever 1 colour
Wildlife Portraits – where whatever wild animal(s) features every bit the principal focus
Wild World – whatever scene or landscape showing the natural environment
Original Prints – drawn from 1 or several plates, conceived together with executed only past times paw past times the same artist* Check the website for the really precise Definition of a print.
Contemporary Wildlife – challenging traditional boundaries
Young & Wild – opened upward to 17-25 yr olds roofing all the inwards a higher house categories
Silver Artist – opened upward to over lx yr olds roofing all the inwards a higher house categories

You tin view the artwork selected for exhibition inwards 2014

Prizes

The Winner gets a really pregnant cash prize

Overall Winner £10,000 cash prize together with championship 'Wildlife Artist of the Year 2015'
Overall Runner-Up £1,000 cash prize.
Remaining Category Winners £500 each.

These were the prizewinners inwards 2014. Click the link inwards the championship to run into the artwork. Click the link inwards the get upward to run into to a greater extent than artwork past times this wild animals artist

Overall together with 3D category winner 'Transparence Elephant' by Pascal Chesneau
Runner-up together with Wildlife inwards Action category winner Aiming past times Chew Choon
Endangered Wildlife category winner Rhino past times Rohan Chhabra
Wild Life category winner Sword of the Desert past times Stefano Zagaglia
Wildlife inwards Monochrome category winner Rook past times Suzie Dafforn
Young & Wild category winner Shirokuma by Liara K Crane
Silver Artist category winner Ptarmigan Descent past times Philip Lawson Johnson
David Shepherd's Choice Vulture Club past times Martin Buffery

You tin run into all the winning artworks inwards this article past times The Guradian

Deadlines for entries

The closing appointment is 13th Feb 2015

Who tin submit?

This is an international opened upward competition. It regularly attracts entries from overseas. Entry is opened upward to eligible submissions from:

both amateur together with professional person artists. No distinction is made inwards the judging for the relative status of the artist.
artists aged 17 years or over (ie 17 years of historic menses past times the closing appointment – 13th Feb 2015).

What tin y'all submit?

These are the damage together with weather condition for entries

You tin submit:

work completed inside the concluding 5 years past times the entrant
original work
multiple entries
any medium except photography together with film

NOTE that artists using exact reference from simply about other professional person creative mortal or lensman MUST create got prior written permission from the copyright owner. Source textile together with proof of permission to job MUST endure made available on asking past times the judges.

You CANNOT submit: function completed earlier 13th Feb 2010 is ineligible for entry together with cannot endure submitted

Work which is non master to the artist
work which has been sold - either earlier entry or earlier the exhibition. The whole job of the exhibition is to heighten fund to help protect endangered wildlife
photographs, video or electronic images - they volition all endure disqualified

How practise y'all submit

Entry is online or via the post. Your artwork should endure submitted every bit a JPEG digital epitome via the digital entry shape or should endure burned to a CD. They recommend

a minimum resolution of 2560 x 1920 pixels
a file size non exceeding 6MB.
all files must create got an easily identifiable get upward eg your surname followed past times championship of fine art artwork

What does it cost to enter

There are 3 cost levels for entries

Entry for DSWF members is £10
Entry for all others £25 per entry except the immature together with onetime (see adjacent line)
Entry for the Young & Wild ((17 – 25 yr olds) together with Silver Artist (over 60s) categories is besides £10

More virtually Wildlife Artist of the Year inwards previous years

David Shepherd's Wildlife Artist of the Year 2014 - deadline ... 18 January 2014 - Summary of the Call for Entries for David Shepherd's Wildlife Artist of the Year 2014 - exhibition at Mall Galleries inwards June 2014.
Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 - David ... 06 Jun 2013 Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013: Review of the prizewinners together with exhibition at the Mall Galleries.
Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 - Call for entries 24 Oct 2012 - Overview of telephone weep upward for entries for The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 Competition.
Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 - Call for entries 16 December 2011 - The overall BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 wins a house for 1 mortal on a 10-day icon safari amongst Pip McGarry inwards Republic of Botswana inwards Oct 2012
Two opportunities to endure Wildlife Artist of the Year 2011! 25 January 2011 - The contest is opened upward to all professional person together with amateur artists aged 17 together with over. The meridian prize is £10,000 together with all shortlisted artists are exhibited at the Wildlife Artists of Year 2011 Exhibition at the Mall Galleries
Adam Binder wins Wildlife Artist of the Year 2010 25 May 2010 - Yesterday evening, at the Mall Galleries, Adam Binder's stunningly uncomplicated bronze sculpture of a polar affect an iceberg - "Sinking Feeling" - won him the championship of Wildlife Artist of the Year 2010.
Art competition: Wildlife Artist of the Year 28 January 2010 - The championship Wildlife Artist of the Year is awarded past times a panel of judges appointed past times the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) together with comes amongst a cash prize of £10,000 generously donated past times the exhibition sponsors
Exhibition review: Wildlife Artist of the Year 2009 02 Jun 2009 - You tin run into my photos of swain coloured pencil artists Gayle Mason together with Jonathan Newey amongst their function on the UKCPS News weblog inwards UKCPS members together with their fine art at Wildlife Artist of the Year 2009.
Wildlife Artist of the Year 2009 - the online exhibition - 13 April 2009 - so refreshing to run into the online exhibition for the Wildlife Artist of the Year simply about 2 months inwards advance of the actual exhibition inwards June.
MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Two wild animals fine art competitions together with a snowfall ... 28 November 2008 -The Wildlife Artist of the Year, run past times the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF), is opened upward to amateur together with professional person artists alike from anywhere inwards the world. Artists must endure aged 17 past times the closing appointment - 30th January 2009.