Brand New!! The £5,000 Bristol Fine Art Prize

The Bath Art Prize has morphed for 2013 into the Bristol Art Prize!

The Bath Art Prize has spent iv years inward Bath - alongside artists arriving from all over the Great Britain to pigment street scenes inward Bath.  This twelvemonth at that spot is a alter of scenery together with a alter of gallery for the exhibition.
The Bristol Art Prize is an opened upwardly fine art competition, created to create novel function celebrating the glory of Bristol. Entrants are required pigment their showtime function from an allocated place together with tin select whatever Bristol place for additional entries. En plein air icon is likewise encouraged.
Bristol Art Prize - banking concern fit out the views at the top of every page on the website
How the Bristol Prize Competition works


The Rules



Who is eligible

The contest is opened upwardly to whatever creative somebody submitting a icon or drawing related to the City of Bristol together with produced inward 2013 according to the rules of the Competition.

What tin you lot paint 

  • LOCATION: You don't possess got a selection almost your showtime work.  You MUST pigment a scene based on an allocated viewpoint.  This ensures a skillful mix of scenes from or thence the city.  However if you lot don't similar your allocated viewpoint you're stuffed!  Once you lot possess got entered you're notified almost your viewpoint past times email.  At to the lowest degree you lot tin together with thence create upwardly one's hear whether or non to brand the journeying past times using Google Streetmaps to banking concern fit it out!  Once you've painted this scene you lot are together with thence complimentary to brand a icon from a place of your choice.
  • TYPE OF WORK: Work must survive the artist's ain function - no borrowing other people's photos or copying allowed! All function entered must survive an master copy composition produced inward 2013 together with must survive the sole function of the entrant who must ain the copyright of the work.

Deadline for entries

The closing engagement for entries together with submission of function is Dominicus September 8th 

Cost of entry

Non-refundable fees are £18 for the showtime function submitted online together with £10 for every additional painting

How are paintings judged

There's a ii phase process:
  • initial screening is online.  This volition survive completed past times xi September.  You tin run into work which has been screened together with displayed on the website correct now.
  • If you lot locomote past times the initial concealment you're together with thence invited to acquaint your function framed for exhibition (all the normal rules employ re. framing together with packaging) and deliver it to Bristol no after than Dominicus September 22nd.

What gets displayed

  • Artwork delivered to Bristol volition survive displayed on the Bristol Prize website - together with may survive sold via that website.  Sales are less 50% commission.
  • Artwork which goes on exhibition inward Bristol is at the discretion of the contest organisers.  This is some other means of maxim they possess got a finite sum of infinite together with don't know how many they tin convey until they've seen how big everything is.  They volition together with thence variety out the "must hang" together with and thence hang every bit much of the residue of it every bit they can.  Hence - my advice would survive if you lot desire to pigment big - you lot improve pigment a winner!
  • Prizewinners together with other selected entries MAY survive offered a publishing contract for artist-enhanced editions together with signed express editions of their work.


Exhibition

The exhibition for the Bristol Art Prize 2013 volition survive held at the Exhibition Centre: The Guildhall Arts Centre, Small Street, Bristol, BS1 2EP inward September.
The Bristol Art Prize, the Plein Air Prize together with other specified prizes are buy prizes together with accepting these prizes sells the prize-winning function together with the correct to reproduce it to the Competition organizers.

Prizes

  • The Bristol Art Prize is £5,000. This a link to the Prizes page.  
  • This is what it says (see above).  Note that the toll includes signing over the copyright for reproduction purposes - thence recollect to add together inward the value for this otherwise the contest becomes a inexpensive means of getting artwork for reproductions to sell to tourists!  (I intend this is a novel status - I don't recollect it beingness at that spot earlier only doubtless 1 of the plein air artists volition fix me straight on that 1 if I've got it wrong!)

Art Materials inward Bristol

Anybody participating inward the contest is eligible to larn a discount on fine art materials from Bristol Fine Art

You tin read almost the Bath Art Prize inward this post Chris Dunn wins The Bath Prize 2011 and run into the criterion of some of the paintings submitted.


So - who's entering this prize this year?

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