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 topographic point is a alter of scenery as well as a alter of gallery for the exhibition.

The Bristol Art Prize is an opened upward fine art competition, created to get novel operate celebrating the glory of Bristol. Entrants are required pigment their outset operate from an allocated place as well as tin direct whatsoever Bristol place for additional entries. En plein air icon is too encouraged.

Bristol Art Prize - banking enterprise jibe out the views at the top of every page on the website

How the Bristol Prize Competition works

The Rules

You can find the rules here

Who is eligible

The contest is opened upward to whatsoever creative someone submitting a icon or drawing related to the City of Bristol as well as produced inward 2013 according to the rules of the Competition.

What tin you lot paint

LOCATION: You don't direct keep a alternative almost your outset work. You MUST pigment a scene based on an allocated viewpoint. This ensures a proficient mix of scenes from but about the city. However if you lot don't similar your allocated viewpoint you're stuffed! Once you lot direct keep entered you're notified almost your viewpoint past times email. At to the lowest degree you lot tin as well as then determine whether or non to brand the journeying past times using Google Streetmaps to banking enterprise jibe it out! Once you've painted this scene you lot are as well as then gratis to brand a icon from a place of your choice.
TYPE OF WORK: Work must last the artist's ain operate - no borrowing other people's photos or copying allowed! All operate entered must last an master composition produced inward 2013 as well as must last the sole operate of the entrant who must ain the copyright of the work.

Deadline for entries

The closing appointment for entries as well as submission of operate is Dominicus September 8th

Cost of entry

Non-refundable fees are £18 for the outset operate submitted online as well as £10 for every additional painting

How are paintings judged

There's a 2 phase process:

initial screening is online. This volition last completed past times xi September. You tin encounter work which has been screened as well as displayed on the website correct now.
If you lot transcend the initial covert you're as well as then invited to acquaint your operate framed for exhibition (all the normal rules use re. framing as well as packaging) and deliver it to Bristol no later on than Dominicus September 22nd.

What gets displayed

Artwork delivered to Bristol volition last displayed on the Bristol Prize website - as well as may last 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 direct keep a finite sum of infinite as well as don't know how many they tin convey until they've seen how big everything is. They volition as well as then variety out the "must hang" as well as and then hang equally much of the remainder of it equally they can. Hence - my advice would last if you lot desire to pigment big - you lot ameliorate pigment a winner!
Prizewinners as well as other selected entries MAY last offered a publishing contract for artist-enhanced editions as well as signed express editions of their work.

Exhibition

The exhibition for the Bristol Art Prize 2013 volition last held at the Exhibition Centre: The Guildhall Arts Centre, Small Street, Bristol, BS1 2EP inward September.

The Bristol Art Prize, the Plein Air Prize as well as other specified prizes are buy prizes as well as accepting these prizes sells the prize-winning operate as well as 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 cost 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 mean value this is a novel status - I don't recollect it beingness at that topographic point earlier but 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 encounter the criterion of some of the paintings submitted.

So - who's entering this prize this year?