Jerwood Drawing Prize: Telephone Phone For Entries

The Call for Entries has gone out for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015. This is the largest in addition to longest running drawing prize inwards the UK. Deadline for registering upward to iii entries is 5pm on 26 June 2015.

[Please banking concern annotation this post was revised on 19th May - I had a niggle near the price in addition to weather condition which became defined to a greater extent than exactly after a goodness night's sleep!]

Also, I've straightaway had confirmation that the Derwent Art Prize (for pencil art) is non running this twelvemonth (regular readers may recollect the tilt near the honour of the prize in conclusion year) in addition to volition inwards hereafter run on a biennial basis.

Which agency that The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the premier prize for drawing this year.

This opened upward exhibition is a platform for drawing practitioners to showcase their operate amongst other leading contemporary artists inwards this field, in addition to provides those selected with the chance to assist define a wider agreement of drawing for hereafter generations. They volition do an exhibition that explores in addition to celebrates the diversity, excellence in addition to attain of electrical current drawing do inwards the UK.

To last honest, this prize ever reeks to me of the academic in addition to esoteric. Last twelvemonth an sound slice won the Jerwood Prize 2014 .

Alison Carlier was awarded the First Prize of £8,000 for her 1 infinitesimal fifteen minute sound operate entitled ‘Adjectives, lines in addition to marks’ which she describes equally “An open-ended sound drawing, a spoken description of an unknown object”. See the BBC piece Jerwood Drawing Prize awarded to sound piece

Hopefully its judges volition read its rules carefully earlier selecting artists in addition to prizewinners - dissimilar those who judged the Derwent in conclusion year!

[NEW] EXCEPT the occupation is that the rules say exactly naught near what a drawing is - dissimilar the Derwent.

This is all the assist you lot get. This argument (below) isn't fifty-fifty business office of the General Information or Terms in addition to Conditions which is a real strange way to run a competition. If you lot convey no restrictions on how you lot define a drawing so this should last stated explicitly inwards amongst the data the judges are supposed to exercise equally criteria for their judging.

IS THE JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE RESTRICTED TO WORKS ON PAPER ONLY?
No, nosotros do non specify what media operate should last in. The nature of the exhibition is to generate fence near contemporary drawing do in addition to hence operate inwards whatever media is eligible for entry, if the creative mortal considers it equally drawing. Whilst fence near contemporary drawing do is encouraged, the determination of the Selection Panel is in conclusion in addition to binding.
HELP & FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

So bottom occupation this is a prize for drawing which refuses to define what a drawing powerfulness be.

The exclusively criteria is that the creative mortal considers it to last a drawing.

If you lot similar these kind of rules so this is the contest for you. Enter whatever you lot experience similar so long equally you lot consider it to last a drawing!

Jerwood Prize 2015

For those who are serious near entering whatever they consider to last a drawing, this is a summary of what you lot demand to know:

Who tin enter

the contest is opened upward to all artists resident inwards the U.K. (ie overseas students at college hither are eligible to enter; Brits living abroad are not)

What you lot tin enter

Only operate made since Jan 2014 is eligible for entry
All operate submitted must last available from the engagement of submission inwards 2015 in addition to for the duration of exhibition in addition to tour inwards 2015-2016.
Artists may register to move into upward to iii drawings
Work should non overstep 2.5m inwards whatever dimension when framed.

How operate must last presented

Composite drawings must last presented inside i frame
Works that cannot last mirror plated must last accompanied past times total installation instructions in addition to if selected, the creative mortal may last required to render suitable fixings.
Frames MUST last durable for treatment in addition to hanging purposes throughout the pick process, exhibition in addition to tour.
If operate is unframed it should last packaged appropriately in addition to robustly for shipping in addition to storage throughout the exhibition in addition to tour.
see the Rules in addition to Guidelines for additional in addition to to a greater extent than detailed instructions

How to enter

entry fees for students artists are reduced
the deadline for registering entries is 5pm on 26 June 2015
you must nominate submission in addition to collection centre during registration in addition to cannot alter these afterwards
Once registered, artists are invited to submit their plant through i of the regional collection centres.

Selection

Drawings are considered for inclusion inwards the exhibition past times a panel of iii selectors who stand upward for the perspectives of practitioner, curator in addition to author all with expertise inwards the plain of drawing. Each twelvemonth the pick panel changes, in addition to the resultant exhibitions reverberate differing priorities in addition to focus for each panel inwards reply to the operate submitted for their consideration. The selectors human activeness equally independent arbiters of the plant presented, in addition to are tasked to lay in addition to select drawings that stand upward for their combined prerogatives in addition to values inwards reply to the submission. The panel rootage select the drawings for the exhibition, in addition to so collectively select the drawings that volition have the awards.

Jerwood Prize 2014 Catalogue | Introduction

All artists volition last informed past times electronic mail of the Selection Panel's determination past times Fri 17 July 2015.
I can't say I've heard of whatever of the 2015 selectors who are:

Dexter Dalwood, artist;
Salima Hashmi, artist, curator in addition to writer;
and John-Paul Stonard, fine art historian.

Prizes

The prizes on offering include a First Prize of £8,000, Second Prize of £5,000 in addition to ii Student Awards of £2,000 each.

Exhibition

The exhibition volition comprise c. lxx plant - from emerging in addition to established artists - at the Jerwood Space, London from sixteen September – 25 Oct 2015 in addition to later it volition tour to venues across the UK.

Artwork tin last sold in addition to the artist's cost should let for 50% committee charged

Winner of the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013

Apocalypse (My Boyfriend Doesn’t Care)

Ink on paper, 183 x 150cm

For farther details in addition to to register online delight view the Jerwood Drawing Prize Application Page where you lot volition find

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For all enquiries delight contact projection managers, Parker Harris:
Tel: 01372 462190
Email: jdp@parkerharris.co.uk