The John Ruskin Prize 2015 invites artists to submit entries inwards a arrive at of 2D media inwards response to the theme: ‘
Recording Great Britain Now: Society’. The First Prize is £5,000 as well as there's a runner upward prize of £2,000 as well as a pupil prize of £1,000.
The subject - Recording Great Britain Now
The subject for the 3rd twelvemonth of this contest is ‘
Recording Great Britain Now: Society’.
This twelvemonth nosotros invite emerging as well as established artists to answer to the theme: Recording Great Britain Now: Society, to re-assess their exercise as well as focus on the prevalent social issues of 2015/16. In the same agency that Recording Britain sought to map familiar townscapes as well as countryside nether threat, this volition last an invitation to engage with a lodge inwards rapid transition. (my red)
Recording Great Britain Now - The History
Starting terminal year, the contest is riffing on Kenneth Clark's first during the instant globe state of war to "
Recording Great Britain Now". This was an first which was an extension of the Official War Artist Scheme as well as I estimate was the artistic side of the wishing to tape how life was beingness lived inwards the UK on the outbreak of war.
The aim was formally expressed as:
‘secure a tape of historic scenes, site as well as buildings which may last endangered through enemy activeness or past times utilitarian encroachment.’
- The collection of artwork which resulted from the first is instantly housed at the Victoria as well as Albert Museum. It includes to a greater extent than than 1,500 watercolours as well as drawings "of lives as well as landscapes at a fourth dimension of imminent change". If y'all see the Prints as well as Drawings Study Room y'all brand a asking to run into the artwork from the Recording Great Britain project (click the link to run into examples of function inwards the collection)
- The Scottish cease of the 'Recording Scotland' project is housed in the Museum Collections Unit at the University of St. Andrews.
Recording Great Britain Now - now!
I intend it's a first-class thought to snuff it along with this theme! For the 2014 contest the subject was really broad
The subject of the instant prize exhibition is Recording Great Britain Now. Artists were invited to
...present fresh, contemporary visions of their urban, rural or social environment.
The subsequent exhibition was shown at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery for 5 months accompanying the V&A tour of Recording Britain. Then it moved to the gallery Trinity Buoy Wharf. inwards East London (next to the Royal Drawing Schools's annexe) for a instant showing inwards Nov - which is when I saw it - see
Recording Great Britain Now - exhibition as well as prizewinner.
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| Winner of the John Ruskin Prize 2014Slowly creeping past times Maggie Hargreaves |
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Here it is (right) hanging inwards the exhibition at The Electrician's Shop Gallery
- the door gives only about scale |
The winning drawing was purchased past times Architect
Mike Davies, a founding partner of the
Richard Rogers Partnership who has worked on the Pompidou Centre inwards Paris as well as the Millenium Dome instantly known equally the O2).
Recording Great Britain inwards 2015
What makes it dissimilar for 2015 is the emphasis on "
society". I'm guessing that powerfulness last because a lot of the function inwards terminal year's exhibit had lots of unpeopled landscapes!
The John Ruskin Prize - how to enter
Who tin enter
The John Ruskin Prize is opened upward to anyone xviii or over, resident or domiciled inwards the UK.
What y'all tin enter
The function entered MUST be:
- two dimensional
- relief function as well as majority fine art are too eligible
- Time-based media, photography as well as sculpture are non eligible.
- should non overstep 2.5 metres inwards whatever direction (that's 8.2 feet for the erstwhile imperialists with you). You powerfulness desire to banking concern notation that the function which won terminal twelvemonth was BIG!
Note:
- how large only about of the drawings are
- how only about large drawings are non framed but rather are suspended from line-fishing wire lopped through pocket-size bulldog clips which attach to the canvas of paper. This seems to last direct maintain snuff it an accepted agency of showing large plant on newspaper - if for no other argue than everybody avoids the problems with weight as well as the opportunity of broken glass!
Recording Great Britain Now - exhibition as well as prizewinner
- must last available for inclusion inwards the ii exhibitions (see dates below)
- made inwards the terminal 5 years
- represented past times a high resolution jpeg icon submitted with the entry shape as well as fee
Timeline
- Deadline for Entries: 23 Nov 2015
- Notification re. selection: fifteen Dec 2015
How to enter
- decide how many artworks y'all are entering (the fees trim equally the number of artworks increase)
- complete the online entry shape at the bottom of http://www.thebigdraw.org/ruskinprize
(Note y'all tin too impress out the form, apply offline as well as pay past times cheque) - complete the icon details - title, date, media as well as dimensions
- submit the form
- pay the fees via PayPal.
The Selection Panel
The Selection Panel's chore is to
- identify as well as shortlist fifteen artists for the Prize and
- select function past times them for inclusion inwards 2 showings of the Recording Great Britain Now: Society exhibition.
For the 2015 contest the panel comprises:
The contest is organised past times the
Campaign for Drawing in collaboration with the
Guild of St George and The Pilgrim Trust.
The Exhibition
The exhibition tin last viewed inwards 2016 at:
- The New Art Gallery Walsall, Recording Great Britain Now: Society, 26 Feb – 17 Apr 2016
- The Electrician’s Shop (Gallery), Trinity Buoy Wharf, London inwards early on summertime 2016.
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