National Opened Upwardly Fine Art Contest 2015 - Concluding Telephone Telephone For Entries

Don't panic! 2 days to larn - says the NOA website!

You get got until Sunday 26th July to submit artwork to the National Open Art Competition

What is the National Open Art Competition?

Normally at this betoken I include a curt pithy judgement or 2 from the website which states succinctly what the aim of the contest is as well as how it is unique/different from every other competition

I'm a piddling flake at a loss every bit to just what the contest is every bit the "about" page on the website - which uses 'mission statement' every bit role of the URL - is really focused on telling me virtually WHO runs it as well as what their priorities are.

Safe to say it's an opened upward fine art contest as well as it's been running for a issue of years.

I really don't get got a clue from the website every bit to what makes it different from whatever other competition. The major departure so far every bit I tin arrive at the sack run across is it is non based inwards London - yet it does get got a major exhibition at a prestigious London venue.

I wrote as well as asked virtually the contest as well as got a reply from a lady who writes a prissy missive of the alphabet who tells me

The NOA is run primarily past times a small-scale dedicated squad e'er striving to discovery novel opportunities for artists as well as render them with a platform past times offering the endangerment to exhibit at the annual Winter Exhibition inwards add-on to a arrive at of bursaries, residencies as well as commissions.

She as well as so went on to say

NOA is i of the few Art Competitions that guarantee their artists run volition live genuinely, anonymously judged. Work is chosen on talent solitary as well as information such every bit names, historic menstruation as well as career is withheld throughout both rounds.

All I tin arrive at the sack say is that the organisers must non live aware that this is a mutual measure with most of the competitions I know well.

I asked for statistics virtually the contest as well as I got some fantabulous information past times return. You tin arrive at the sack discovery a summary of information for the lastly 3 years inwards the Selection department below - as well as what it agency inwards terms of the chances of beingness selected

NOA - How to enter

Who tin arrive at the sack enter

In social club to come inwards you lot MUST:

live, or live professionally based, in

the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) or
the Republic of Republic of Ireland (Éire).

be aged fifteen years of historic menstruation past times 1 September 2015 to come inwards the Main Competition
be fourteen years of historic menstruation or younger past times 1 September 2015 to come inwards for the Children’s competition, must

What variety of artwork tin arrive at the sack you lot enter?

You tin arrive at the sack exclusively come inwards original work

Undertakes that the run is of his/her ain origination, as well as that he or she holds all moral as well as intellectual holding rights inwards that work.

You tin arrive at the sack submit up to 4 artworks from a broad diversity of media

Paintings
Drawings
Original Prints (I recollect this agency 'proper' fine fine art prints every bit opposed to reproductions)
Photography
Wall Hung Installations
Computer Generated Art, e.g. iPad
Moving Image

So - in that place nosotros get got it! This is the exclusively contest I know if which has 2 distinct as well as unique categories for 'wall hung installations' as well as 'digital art'

The artwork is express past times size as well as duration as well as edition. The website states

Max size of Artwork: Width : 183cm x Height : 183cm x Depth : 30cm including the frame.
Max duration of Moving Image: 3 minutes (180 seconds) including whatever credits.
ONLY Prints, Photographs or Wall Hung Installations may live "editions".

Artwork MUST live for sale at a sensible price.

The catalogue for the 2014 Exhibition is available online. It contains the titles, images, media as well as prices of the run submitted. This demonstrates that the measure of artwork is commensurate with other national fine art exhibitions although the prices maybe demonstrate a much wider span.

You tin arrive at the sack see what sold from lastly year's exhibition on this page of the website.

What to submit

You outset demand to register and pay (via credit/debit card) the £20 registration fee (which covers 1 image/artwork to live submitted)

Full details virtually entering online, including digital icon requirements, volition live given inwards the confirmation of registration electronic mail that you lot have in i lawsuit you lot get got registered or click hither for to a greater extent than information regarding digital images.

You as well as so demand to submit ONLINE:

one high lineament icon exclusively for each artwork. This must be

a high resolution 300 dpi icon bigger than 250kb as well as smaller than 2MB.
true to the artwork as well as avoid including whatever unnecessary background.
The fine art run shown on the image(s) must live available, if shortlisted, for judging at Chichester on 1 September 2015 as well as for all the exhibition(s)

a completed submission form
an additional £20 entry fee(s) for each additional artwork
an creative somebody contention for each work (a maximum of thirty words excluding all personal details)
a pdf file of your electrical flow artist's CV (This volition live published online so omit all personal information such every bit address or telephone number)

Deadline for entries

The lastly deadline for submitting run is midnight on Sunday, 26 July 2015.

Second circular of judging

If your entry is i of the 500 industrial plant selected for the 2d circular of judging, you lot volition demand to submit your run to Chichester University’s Brinsbury Campus, inwards Pulborough, West Sussex, betwixt 26 as well as 29 August.

Selection

Chances of beingness selected

Below you lot tin arrive at the sack run across a summary of information for the lastly 3 years inwards terms of the issue of artists who submitted entries, the issue of entries received, the issue of industrial plant shortlisted, the issue exhibited as well as the issue who won prizes.

PS I couldn't discovery anything virtually prizes on the website

I tin arrive at the sack confirm that the odds of beingness selected are non unlike to other major UK fine art competitions with major cash prizes.

	SUMMARY
	2012	2013	2014
Artists	1,277	1,909	2,212
Submissions	2,181	3,269	3,622
Shortlisted	527	354	522
	24%	11%	14%
Exhibited	97	96	124
	4%	4%	3%
Prizewinners	23	22	31
	1%	1%	1%

Selection Panel

This year's panel includes

Hughie O'Donohgue RA - Painter
David Lister - Arts Editor of The Independent and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Rebecca Hossack - Gallery owner
Vanessa Branson - Arts as well as Nature enthusiast. Co possessor of Riad El Fenn as well as President of Arts inwards Marrakech (according to her Twitter account)
Amanda Harman - Photographer

You tin arrive at the sack run across a profile of the judges on the website

Digital images of submissions for the Adult Competition volition live projected as well as judged past times the Selection Panel on Mon third August at the Arts Club, Dover Street, on Mon 3 August 2015

They volition create a longlist of 500 industrial plant which volition live announced on v August.

The NOA intend to launch the World Vote on v August, a novel initiatory that gives people the endangerment to vote online for their favourite long-listed artist. The winner of the World Vote volition automatically larn through to the RCA.

If you lot are shortlisted for the 2d circular of judging - to create the so, you lot are required to ship your run past times post inwards a Stiffy Bag www.stiffybag.com. Prices start from every bit piddling every bit £3.

The shortlist of merely about 100 industrial plant for the Exhibition at the RCA volition live get got house on 1 September as well as live announced presently thereafter.

Exhibition

There are a issue of ways inwards which the selected artwork volition live exhibited. Here's a summary of the information from the Exhibitions page on the website

A pop-up exhibition volition live held inwards the Barons Hall, during the Arundel Festival 2015 at Arundel Castle , West Sussex, BN18 9AB between 22 - 31 August 2015
The 2015 Ex hibition of the National Open Art Competition volition live held at the Royal College of Art between 21 Oct to 1 Nov 2015
All exhibition as well as shortlisted industrial plant are available on the online Galleries – a really pop selling platform
The 500 industrial plant of fine art (including artists CVs, images & details of the artwork) volition as well as so live posted on NOA’s website as well as volition rest in that place for sale.

Artworks are for sale as well as 50% committee is deducted from the price.

Proceeds from sales from the NOA Collection as well as Competition contribute to helping NOA travel past times away on its mission to encourage artistic achievement as well as to NOA’s chosen charity, The House of Fairytales, which helps children as well as immature people engage with art.

For farther information, delight catch http://www.thenationalopenartcompetition.com/