Derwent Fine Art Prize 2014 - 2 People's Selection Awards

The Derwent Art Prize offers 2 opportunities for earth to vote for the People's Choice Award inwards relation to the artwork selected for exhibition together with - this twelvemonth for the commencement fourth dimension - all entries equally well.  More virtually how to vote below.

Yesterday the Derwent Art Prize website published 2 galleries of images

• People's Choice Award 2014 - all works entered inwards the contest - all 25 pages of them which, amongst a 100 entries on each page, agency they had virtually 2,500 entries!
• People's Choice Award - The Exhibition 2014 - All Works  There are 79 pencil artworks inwards total

Why non pretend to endure a selector together with stimulate got a await at all of them together with and come across what y'all retrieve of both the pencil artworks which were entered together with the plant that were selected.

Would y'all stimulate got chosen a dissimilar fix of c.80 plant for the exhibition?  Which plant would y'all stimulate got selected?

Each of the plant likewise supply buttons which enable y'all to:

• post to your facebook account
• tweet an image
• post an icon on your Google+ account.

Selected artists

I'll endure commenting farther on the selected artists inwards a time to come post.

Some of the selected artworks inwards the Exhibition for the Derwent Art Prize 2014

Prizes

The prizes dissever inwards two. The commencement fix are those determined yesteryear the judges.  These are

• First Prize -  £6,000
• Second Prize -  £3,500
• Third Prize -  £1,000
• Young Artist Award for artists nether 25 years - £500
• UK Coloured Pencil Society Award for Excellence - £250

Then there's the TWO People Choices Awards which are chosen yesteryear earth this year.  As a evolution from concluding year, the contest organisers stimulate got made all the entries available for pick for this prize.

Thus nosotros at in 1 lawsuit have:

• People’s Choice Award of £700 - from plant selected for the exhibition and judged yesteryear visitors to the exhibition together with visitors to the website.
• People’s Choice Award of £700 - selected from all 2014 entries together with judged yesteryear visitors to the website

I'm wondering if the 80th house inwards the exhibition mightiness endure for the People's Choice Award equally judged yesteryear visitors to the website.

I'm likewise wondering what precautions stimulate got been pose inwards house to forestall unfair interference amongst the voting.

The panel of judges for the principal prizes are:

• Kate Macfarlane, Co-Founder together with Co-Director of the Drawing Room, 
• Josh Spero, Editor of Spears Magazine together with Art Critic for Tatler UK, and 
• Professor Anita Taylor, artist, Co-Founder together with Director of Jerwood Drawing Prize together with Dean of Bath School of Art together with Design.

How to vote for the People's Choice Award

You tin vote for TWO People's Choice awards.

It's non terribly obvious how y'all tin vote for the People's Choice observe - until y'all click on an icon together with realise that they each stimulate got a large light-green "Vote for this icon inwards the People's Choice Award" button.

You've got a lot of images to review together with hence brand certain y'all don't click on the commencement icon that y'all like!

The Derwent Art Prize Exhibition

The pencil artworks selected for exhibition volition endure seen inwards London together with Cumbria. They'll endure seen commencement at the Mall Galleries inwards London betwixt the 15th – 20th September 2014. The instant exhibition volition endure at The Pencil Museum inwards Keswick, Cumbria inwards Dec 2014.

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