Pre-Selected, Selected, Long Listed, Shortlisted, Prizewinner - What's Inward A Phrase?

There seems to endure massive total of confusion inwards people's minds most the departure betwixt pre-selection, selection, shortlisting too winning. I can't run into how most of this occurs, but I create my best to politely fix them straight....

View of end year's Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition at the Mall Galleries

This is a quote from a contest organiser too was their answer to an electronic mail from me pointing out that somebody was claiming on a website to convey WON a rather prestigious prize end year! (The private hadn't - too the argue I knew that for a fact was because I interviewed the winner who non only had a completely dissimilar advert but was also of the other sex!)

Given the claim was genuinely on a gallery website it mightiness convey been a gallerista who was exercising rather equally good few encephalon cells.

However I've sure enough convey come upward across artists who genuinely haven't got a clue when it comes to the technical damage relating to fine art competitions.

The principal difficulty seems to endure agreement the departure betwixt "selected" and "shortlisted".

So hither is.....

A glossary of fine art contest descriptions for the confused

Pre-selected

You made it through the commencement (screening) phase too yous are directly officially on the long list.

Typically this is associated amongst a digital pre-screening. Your digital icon worked. You directly postulate to larn your artwork to where it is beingness judged inwards person.

Selected artist

Your artwork has directly been selected for the Exhibition.

Somehow or other nosotros cease upward amongst a listing of artists' names rather than a listing of selected artworks. Hence why yous are directly referred to equally a "selected artist"

This is the term most of the people who larn into an exhibition SHOULD use.

Shortlisted

There is an official too announced shortlist for the prize. Your advert is on it. You larn invited to the proclamation of the prizewinners which may or may non also include dinner! (Suddenly yous realise yous postulate a novel frock or suit!)

To qualify equally a shortlist the listing has to endure short. If it's got lxxx names on it it's non a shortlist - it's a listing of selected artists!

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of prizes don't create this but only about do (e.g. BP Portrait, Threadneedle).

Prizewinner

You won a prize. As inwards "A prize" non "THE prize". You larn the smaller cheque.

Winner

You won "THE prize"! The ane the contest is named after. You tin directly officially experience faint, revise your CV too website to brand a large matter most it too mostly wonder how on globe that happened.

You also larn a large banking concern tally too the work of what to create amongst it!

Links: Major United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland Art Competitions inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland inwards 2013