Major Fine Art Competitions Inward The Uk Inward 2014

This is my annual post nearly Major Art Competitions inward the UK. Below y'all volition observe a listing of all ALL major fine art competitions inward the UK inward 2014 plus:
  • an overview of what each contest is about
  • links to to a greater extent than information
  • key dates - including the deadline for entry where known.
First a preamble nearly other useful information

Bookmark for Updates

Information is updated - equally it becomes available - on Major UK Art Competitions Page (a static page at the top of this weblog - simply nether the title).  Future information volition include links to:
  • Call for Entries
  • Announcement of selected artists 
  • Names too websites of artists shortlisted for Prizes
  • Exhibition reviews 

Archive of Information nearly Art Competitions inward the UK 

My website Art Competitions inward the UK provides an archive of information nearly yesteryear fine art competitions too reviews of plant selected for precious contest exhibitions. It too includes links to:

Tips for artists entering juried / opened upward fine art competitions too exhibitions

You may observe my weblog posts from the yesteryear helpful

20 tips for entering fine art competitionsWhat attain y'all quest to know when thinking nearly entering an fine art competition? Here's twenty tips to tending you.
Juried fine art competitions - does size matter?For those concerned nearly what size to paint
How to calculate the terms of entering a juried fine art exhibition

Pre-selected, selected, long listed, shortlisted, prizewinner - what's inward a phrase?
For those concerned nearly how the expenses tin mountain up

A tidings of the terminology used to depict artists at unlike stages of an fine art competition
A Making H5N1 Mark Guide: Analysing the terms of entering a juried fine art exhibitionDownload my FREE spreadsheet which acts equally a checklist too helps y'all to terms out your entry
The Websites of Contemporary Painters inward the UKget your website sorted BEFORE y'all locomote inward a juried fine art contest or fille out on the traffic when the names of selected artists are announced!


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Please banking concern complaint that this post EXCLUDES 
  • Art Society Open Exhibitions. However I embrace the major opened upward exhibitions organised yesteryear national fine art societies which I volition embrace inward  a hereafter post Key Dates for UK National Art Society Exhibitions inward 2014
  • art competitions based inward the UK which accept a first of all prize of less than £10,000 (unless they are the major abide by for that type of art eg Jerwood Drawing Prize)

Major Art Competitions inward the UK inward 2014


The listing is organised according to:
  • the calendar month of the deadline for initial entries
  • information available at the kickoff of Jan 2014 
If you're planning an fine art competition, delight banking concern complaint that busy professional person artists tin too attain project design the twelvemonth ahead. Making information available on a timescale which gives fourth dimension to project design too ready tends to result inward a amend calibre of entry.

Jan 2014


RWS Open Competition 2014

RWS Contemporary Open website

    Deadline for Entries - 14th Jan 2014, 12.00 noon - digital entry

    Type of art: aims to encourage invention too experimentation inward water-based mediums too seeks practising artists at the forefront of watercolour painting.

    Eligible media: Water-based paints

    Eligible artists: Any creative someone (providing they are non a fellow member of the RWS) working amongst water-based media tin apply.  International applications welcomed

    Websitehttp://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/competitions.aspx

    Prize: Cash prizes are non significant. This is the route to entry to membership of the RWS.

    Judges: RWS alternative panel + 2 independent persons
    • Matthew Collings Artist, Critic, Writer too Broadcaster
    • Anne Lyles Art Historian too Curator
    • Thomas Plunkett PRWS Hon RI President of the Royal Watercolour Society
    • Wendy Jacob VPRWS Vice President of the Royal Watercolour Society
    • Bridget Moore ARWS RBA NEAC Associate Member of the Royal Watercolour Society
    Exhibition Location: Bankside Gallery

    Call for entriesRWS - Call for Entries Entry Pack for RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2014

    2014 Exhibition Dates: Friday vii - Midweek nineteen March, 11am-­‐6pm

    Archive: meet Making H5N1 Mark - RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013 - exhibition review (includes images of locomote inward the exhibition)

    Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2014

    Lynn Painter Stainers website

    Deadline - Artwork: Online entry by 29 Jan 2014, yesteryear 5pm

    Type of art: The Prize encourages the really best creative representational epitome too promotes the science of draughtsmanship


    Eligible media
    • two dimensional plant inward whatever epitome or drawing media completed inward the lastly 3 years too non previously exhibited. 
    • No dimension (including frame) larger than 72 inches (183 cms).  
    • All plant must live for sale except commissioned portraits
    Eligible artists: UK adult artists entirely ie over xviii on 12 Jan 2013 too resident inward the United Kingdom, Channel Islands or Isle of Man.

    Prizes
    : First Prize: £15,000; v Runner-Up Prizes each at: £1,500; Young Artist Award: £2,500

    Website: http://www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk / Parker Harris who administer


    Call for entrieshttp://www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk/info-for-artists/ too Rules & Guidelines.

    Judges
    The 2014 judges include:
    • Peter Clossick, Artist
    • Ken Howard OBE RA NEAC, Artist
    • Paul Newland, Artist
    • Steve Pill, Editor, Artists & Illustrators Magazine
    • Andrew Wilton, Visiting Research Fellow at Tate Britain

    A panel of practiced judges volition review the images too remove unopen to 200 actual plant to live submitted to FBA for terminal judging.  Unclear whether terminal judges are the same equally those who enshroud the digital images.

    Selected Artists

    • 2013 data: 87 plant hung
    • 2012 data: 1,150 entries; 98 selected too hung inward the exhibition = 8.5% peril of a locomote beingness selected 
    Exhibition Dates18 – 22 March 2014 at Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1, 10am-5pm daily Plus online exhibition (2013 online exhibition

    See Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2013 - Selected Artists and Lynn Painter Stainer Exhibition 2013: Review

    Wildlife Artist of the Year (David Shepherd)


    Deadline - Registration: The closing appointment is 20th Jan 2014
    Type of art: Wildlife Art - an international opened upward competition. Seven categories of entry
    Eligible media
    • any medium except photography too cinema  and electronically created artwork
    • Artwork must live master locomote of the creative someone ie Artists using exact reference from some other professional person creative someone or lensman risk having their locomote rejected. 
    • Artwork must accept been completed inside the v years prior to the deadline too thus y'all cannot locomote inward whatever artwork that y'all completed earlier 21st Jan 2009.
    Eligible artists: Both amateur too professional person artists aged 17 years too over on 21 Jan 2013. No distinction is made inward the judging for the relative status of the artist.

    Prizes: Overall Winner £10,000 cash prize too championship 'Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013' ; Overall Runner-Up £1,000 cash prize. Remaining Category Winners £500 each.

    Website: http://www.davidshepherd.org/way/
    Call for entries: terms too conditions

    Online or Physical Entry: entry online or yesteryear post

    FAQS: http://www.davidshepherd.org/way/faq.php

    Entry form: online entry form; multiple entries allowed

    Exhibition: 2nd-7th June, 2014 at the Mall Galleries, London

    Archive: meet Wildlife Artist of the Year run yesteryear the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation

    Contact: delight contact DSWF yesteryear emailway@davidshepherd.org (but meet terms too weather condition first)


    February 2013

    BP Portrait Award 2013

    The locomote entered should live a epitome based on a sitting or report from lifeand the human figure must predominate.
    Making H5N1 Mark overview: see BP Portrait Award 2014 - Call for Entries


    Deadline - Registration: (entry forms too entry fees) Monday 3 Feb 2014

    Type of art: Portrait paintings

    Prize:
    • First Prize: £30,000, plus, at the judges’ discretion, a commission worth £5,000, to live agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist.
    • Second Prize: £10,000
    • Third Prize: £8,000
    • BP Travel Award 2014: £6,000

    Eligible work/media:
    • one entry per artist
    • the portrait must live recent i.e. it MUST accept been completed afterward 1 Jan 2013
    • Painting based on sitting or observation from life. 
    • You quest to accept met the sitter - the entry shape includes a box which requires y'all to tick to state y'all accept met the sitter. 
    • Dimensions: maximum size (framed): 244 x 244cm (96″ x 96″); minimum size (unframed): 25 x 20cm (10” x 8”)
    • must NOT live signed on the front
    The locomote entered must live predominantly painted inward oil, tempera or acrylic too must live on a stretcher or board, preferably framed too unglazed. No watercolours, plant on newspaper or pastels volition live considered.
    Eligible artists: all artists living anywhere inward the globe who are aged xviii too over on 1st Jan 2013.

    Website
    :  http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/bp-portrait-award-2014.php

    Call for entries: NPG / BP Portrait Award 2014 - How to enter

    Online or Physical Entry: Online Registration  To asking a postal entry shape telephone telephone 020 7321 6699 or write to NPG

    Deadline - Artwork: diverse dates inward early-mid March
    Entry form:  Complete the online entry shape here or download a postal entry shape from the website (PDF) from the National Portrait Gallery

    Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery, London followed yesteryear a tour to 2 other venues inward the UK. Some 285,000 people came to meet the BP Portrait exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery inward 2013.

    Selected Artists: those selected for 2013 exhibition volition live notified by Wednesday 26 March 2014.
    2013 Exhibition Review:
    Archive:
    In the hereafter I volition issue on this blog:
    • a reminder nearly the deadline for entries
    • the listing of artists selected for the exhibition
    • the listing of shortlisted artists 
    • an article nearly the awards ceremony
    • features nearly the prizewinning artists 
    • a video of the exhibition
    • an proclamation of the people's favourite addition an analysis of relevant statistics 

    Wildlife Artist of the Year (BBC)

    It's unclear whether the contest is beingness run this year, there's goose egg on the website http://www.discoverwildlife.com 


    The Royal Academy of Art - Summer Exhibition 2013


    A perspective on the Summer Exhibition 2013

    Making H5N1 Mark overview: RA Summer Exhibition 2014 goes totally digital! includes tips nearly entry to the Summer Exhibition too inward special the mandatory digital entry this year

    Deadline - RegistrationDeadline to pay fee / obtain entry form: 

    Type of art: UK's largest annual opened upward fine art exhibition

    • Maximum of 2 plant inward total 
    • glazed plant (watercolours, prints, drawings, photographs, etc) on paper; Unglazed plant (oil, acrylic, etc); artist's books; video; sculpture, architectural drawings too models 
    • Preferably created inside the lastly 2 years 
    • Maximum size (excluding sculpture) is 244 × 350cm 
    • ineligible locomote includes site specific locomote too locomote already exhibited elsewhere inward London (excluding prints) 
    Eligible artists: no limitation

    Website
    Prize: £25,000 (The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award) addition diverse smaller prizes (see List of Prizes too FAQs)

    Call for entriesTerms too Conditions of entry. Plus Frequently Asked Questions

    Online or Physical Entry
    • Digital entry mandatory for the first of all fourth dimension inward 2014
    • shortlisted locomote invited to live submitted during April
    Selected Artists: the entry is capped at 12,000 works. It's expected that around 1200 artworks volition live exhibited of which some 300 plant belonged to artists who were non members of the RA.  Hence 2.5% peril of locomote beingness selected.

    Exhibition Location: Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts (home of the RA) June - August 2014. Open to the public 


    Contact: summerexhibition@royalacademy.org.uk

    Comment: The Summer Exhibition is in all likelihood to a greater extent than notable beingness the largest opened upward exhibition inward the UK, its history too the overall size of the prize pot rather than the size of private prizes. There are other exhibitions too fine art competitions inward London which tin fit the top prize money.


    June 2013

    Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2013

    Prizewinners - Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition 2013


    Making H5N1 Mark overview:to live posted Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition 2014 - Call for Entries

    Deadline - Registration: commonly June (specific appointment to live announced)

    Type of art: This contest celebrates the multifariousness too beauty of the undervalued medium of watercolour too all types of locomote produced inward water-based mediums, whether they are abstract, figurative or landscape.

    For reference meet my posts inward 2013:
    Eligible artwork/ media(based on previous years)  abstract, figurative or landscape artwork inward watercolour. The paintings entered should accept been:
    • carried out inward the lastly 3 years 
    • not previously exhibited. 
    • the sole too master locomote of the entrant; it must live an master composition. 
    Eligible artists: all artists born or resident inward the UK (no historic menses limits)

    Prize: First Prize: £10,000; Second Prize: £6,000; Smith & Williamson Cityscape Prize: £1,500

    Website: Likely to live http://www.parkerharris.co.uk/competition/Sunday-Times-Watercolour-2014
    Call for entries: to live published

    Online or Physical Entry: Initial screening is via digital file. Invitation issued to submit actual artwork to FBA HQ.

    Selected artists: In 2013, 813 paintings were submitted yesteryear some 413 artists too 83 paintings yesteryear 79 artists made it through the alternative procedure to live exhibited

    Exhibition Location: Mall Galleries, The Mall London

    Exhibition Dates: commonly September 2013

    Archive: Sunday Times Watercolour Competition

    Contact: Parker Harris

    Jerwood Drawing Prize

    Making H5N1 Mark overviewpost nearly Call for Entries to live published when announced

    Deadline for Entries: commonly June

    Type of art
    : The Jerwood Drawing Prize (£6,000) is the country’s leading abide by inward drawing, too is the largest too longest running annual opened upward exhibition dedicated to drawing inward the UK. , the Prize aims to recognise too back upward both established too emerging artists. Each twelvemonth betwixt lx too lxx artists are selected for the exhibition

    Prize: Prize fund increased yesteryear over 50% inward 2012. First prize of £8,000, a minute prize of £5,000 too 2 educatee awards of £2,000 each
    Eligible media: Any drawing media. Up to 3 drawings. An animated cinema drawn yesteryear the creative someone won the prize inward 2012

    Eligible artists: Open to students too established artists - who are resident or domiciled inward the UK.

    Website: http://jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org/jerwood-drawing-prize

    Call for entries: to live announced

    Online or Physical Entry: c. 3,000 entries were submitted inward 2012
    Entry form: (to live published)

    Deadline - Artwork: June 2012 (to live published)

    Selected Artists:

    Exhibition: commonly Jerwood Space - usually September - Oct followed yesteryear a tour of venues inward the UK. Exact dates (to live published)

    ArchiveJerwood Drawing Prize

    July 2013

    The Derwent Art Prize 2014


    The aim of the Prize is to vantage excellence through showcasing the really best international plant created inward pencil.
    Deadline for registration - to live announced likely to live June/July 2013 - digital entry 

    Type of art: contemporary drawing inward pencil

    For reference meet my posts:


    Eligible media: Pencil

    Eligible artistsall British too international artists - living too over xviii years quondam on 1st July 2014 (to live confirmed).  

    Prizes
    First Prize £5,000 Second Prize: £2,500



    Websitehttp://www.derwent-artprize.com

    Call for entries:
    to live announced 
    Website indicates information volition live available presently - probable to open January 2014

    Online or Physical Entry: Initial submission is online too digital. Those who overstep screening are required to submit artwork for consideration. Online pre-selection opens fourth Apr midday

    Deadline - Artwork: Notified to those artists who larn through initial screening

    ExhibitionMall Galleries, The Mall London - dates to live announced (usually September/October)

    Selected Artists


    Exhibition: likely to live September 2014 Mall Galleries


      The Threadneedle Prize for Painting too Sculpture 2013

      Joint First prizewinners inward 2013

      Deadline - Registrationto live announced - commonly July

      Type of art: contemporary figurative too representational art. See my posts re 2013:
      Eligible media: probable to live "three novel plant created since 1 Jan 2013 - painting, sculpture too master prints"

      Eligible artists: probable to live "Artists of all nationalities aged xviii or over, living or working inward the UK or Continental Europe"

      Prizes: (in previous years) Threadneedle Prize - £30,000; Visitors' Choice Award £10,000

      Website: http://www.threadneedleprize.com/

      Call for entries: (Reference: Making H5N1 Mark: One calendar month left to locomote inward £30,000 Threadneedle Prize)

      Online or Physical Entry: Initial submission is online too digital. Those who overstep screening are required to submit artwork for consideration. Online pre-selection opens fourth Apr midday

      Deadline - Artwork: Notified to those artists who larn through initial screening

      Exhibition: Mall Galleries, The Mall London - dates to live announced (usually September/October)

      Selected Artists:

      Archive: Previous exhibitions of The Threadneedle Prize

      Contact: Tel: 44 (0) twenty 7930 6844 | threadneedleprize@mallgalleries.com

      The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013


      Prizewinners - Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013
      Making H5N1 Mark overview to live published inward May 2013 (see Spencer Murphy wins Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize 2013 for review too images of 2013 exhibition)

      Deadline - Registration:  The Call for Entries for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 volition opened upward inward May 2014.  You can pre-register your involvement inward entering Likely deadline July 2014

      Type of art: Photographic portraits

      Eligible media: Photographs tin live inward dark too white or colour. They must live unmounted too on newspaper no smaller than 420x297mm (A3 size) too no larger than 1015x760mm.

      Eligible artists: all photographers over the historic menses of xviii (except for previous prizewinners). You must must live xviii years of historic menses or over on 1 Jan 2014

      Prize: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014 (likely to live worth £12,000)

      Website: http://www.npg.org.uk/photoprize
      Call for entries: No Call for Entries equally nevertheless - expected May 2014.

      Online or Physical Entry: to live published

      Entry form: to live published

      Selected Artists: In 2013, 5,410 photographs yesteryear 2,435 photographers were entered yesteryear photographers from all over the world. This is an increment of 85 entries on 2012. Around nearly lx portrait photographs volition live hung. Photographers volition live notified of the judges’ conclusion yesteryear electronic mail or yesteryear post yesteryear August 2014. 

      Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery - Nov. 2014- Feb. 2015 

      Archive: Photography - The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

      Contact: to live published

      September 2013

      ING Discerning Eye

      ING Discerning Eye
      Making H5N1 Mark overview:  to live published

      Deadline - Registration: to live published

      Type of art: The ING Discerning Eye aims to attain a exhibit of modest plant independently selected yesteryear vi prominent figures from unlike areas of the fine art world: 2 artist, 2 collectors too 2 critics. Work is selected from opened upward submission too amongst plant yesteryear artists invited yesteryear the private selectors.

      Eligible media: All plant must live handmade too an master creation yesteryear the artist. Drawings, paintings too sculptures are admissable. Maximum size boundary (20" x 20" including frame or plinth/stand)

      Eligible artists: artists eligible to locomote inward are those who are born inward or resident inward the UK.

      Prize: The ING Purchase Prize is £5,000 addition in that place are a variety of other prizes.

      Website: http://www.discerningeye.org/

      Call for entries: to live published

      Online or Physical Entry: to live published
      Entry form: meet Parker Harris website for details (when published)

      Selected Artists: meet

      Exhibition: Mall Galleries - mostly inward Nov (dates to live confirmed)

      Archive: ING Discerning Eye

      Contact: Parker Harris

      Comment: Here are my tips for artists - see MAKING H5N1 MARK: Review: ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2011

      Other timescales

      The Turner Prize 2013


      This is a contest but it's non an Open Competition too thus goose egg to do! Nominations are invited.

      John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize 2014

      This is a biennial prize too entry is straightaway closed. Registration volition reopen inward 2015.


      That's it for now.

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