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Sunday Times Watercolour Contest 2012 - Telephone Phone For Entries

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The Call for Entries for the 25th yr of the travel yesteryear opened upward watercolour contest inwards the UK has been published.  

The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is a very pop as well as prestigious contest which is opened upward to both amateur as well as professional person artists who are invited to compete for prizes worth £18,000.
the contest aims to celebrate as well as vantage excellence as well as originality inwards the medium of watercolour
Cover of the Call for Entries Leaflet (pdf file)
This post tells yous about:
  • who tin give notice enter
  • what yous tin give notice enter
  • the fourth dimension table
  • the exhibition
The deadline for submissions 25 June 2012. Read on to uncovering out to a greater extent than nearly how to larn inwards as well as every bit good how yous tin give notice meet the exhibition which tours the Great Britain later on its stint inwards London inwards September.

If yous desire to meet the calibre of entries inwards previous exhibitions click the links to my spider web log posts nearly this contest inwards the lastly FOUR years at the destination of this post.

What are the primary changes for 2012?
Four things conduct keep changed
  • Initial entry is at i time online (See the Online Entry Form) as well as the starting fourth dimension phase of alternative is via the digital image.  I'm really pleased to hear. It's really evident from other fine art competitions how much submissions from people inwards the sticks growth if they know they solely conduct keep to embrace the costs of getting a operate to London if it's got through an initial screening as well as is inwards with a serious endangerment of beingness selected.  However I'm rather concerned nearly the lineament of images possible given the file size boundary - solely 500kb.  That agency artists volition involve to create upward one's heed whether to compromise dpi or size.  (I experience a spider web log post nearly how to photograph as well as procedure an icon for fine art contest coming on.......)
  • Artwork solely needs to live sent to London if it makes it through the initial screening.  All longlisted artwork needs to live inwards London on quaternary July as well as artists involve to adjust couriers to larn it at that spot inwards time.  Regional collection centres are available if approved couriers are used.  (This is a link to a summary of Great Britain fine art couriers if the regional collection centre is non convenient for you)
  • The panel has almost completely changed. Only Desmond Shawe-Taylor remains from lastly year's panel
  • Artists volition live notified yesteryear electronic mail rather than having to cheque with the website to meet if they've been selected.
    Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Prizes

    The Sun Times Watercolour Competition is i of the travel yesteryear fine art competitions inwards the UK due to the value of its travel yesteryear prize as well as its prestigious reputation.  Prizes inwards 2012 include:
    • 1st Prize (£10,000),
    • 2nd Prize (£6,000),
    • the Smith & Williamson Cityscape Prize (£1,500), and
    • the Vintage Classics Prize for Cover Art (£500 as well as a committee to create the embrace fine art for a Vintage Classic).
    Who tin give notice submit entries
    • The contest is opened upward to all artists born or resident inwards the UK. 
    • There are no historic menstruum limits for artists wishing to enter. 
    What kind of operate tin give notice live submitted
    • The contest is opened upward to all paintings inwards a water-based medium. 
    • The paintings entered should conduct keep been:
      • carried out inwards the lastly 3 years and 
      • not previously exhibited. 
    • Artists may submit up to 4 works. 
    • Copyright: 
      • The operate must live the sole as well as master copy operate of the entrant; it must live an master copy composition. 
      • The creative mortal must ain the copyright of whatsoever industrial plant entered into the competition 
      • If selected for exhibition, the creative mortal must grip for an icon of the operate to live used for whatsoever publicity or marketing cloth relevant to the Sun Times Exhibition. 
    • Entries volition solely live accepted with fully completed documentation as well as solely on the specified handing-in dates. 
      How much does it cost?
      • Entry is £15 per work - payable at handing in 
      • A committee of 40% +VAT on sales 
      How to submit operate for the Sun Times Watercolour Competition

      The panel of judges volition initially review entries through a digital submission process.  250 artists are as well as therefore invited to submit actual industrial plant to London as well as regional collection points.  On the supposition that each creative mortal submits a maximum of 4 industrial plant (ie one one thousand industrial plant submitted), if yous larn inwards through the initial screening yous have:
      • a 40% endangerment yous volition live i of the artists with operate inwards the exhibition (if they solely pick out i operate yesteryear each artist) ie 100 out of 250
      • however each operate solely has a 0.1% endangerment of beingness accepted (ie 1 inwards a 1,000) - assuming they are of equal merit!
      What tin give notice I submit? Artists tin give notice submit upward to 4 industrial plant via online entry
      • Use the Online Entry Form
      • File types accepted: JPG, TIFF, PNG (0.5MB max file size).
      What's the deadline for entries?
      • The deadline for entries is 25 June 2012 yesteryear 5pm.  
      • Artists invited to pop off on to the minute phase volition listen yesteryear 30th June that they need 
        • EITHER to submit artwork for terminal judging to the Federation of British Artists (FBA), 17 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5BD,  on Midweek 4 July 2012.  There volition live  regional collection centres
        • OR submit their entry to the really broad attain of regional centres yesteryear the (earlier) deadlines every bit specified yesteryear the approved couriers inwards the Call for Entries Schedule. 
      Can I larn forms online? Yes. Entry details as well as application forms are available online at Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition on the Parker Harris website

      Will I live notified yesteryear post? No. Artists volition live notified yesteryear email, yesteryear thirty June 2012, of the results of their application. You tin give notice telephone outcry upward the administrators if yous don't conduct keep access to the Internet. Names of the selected artists volition every bit good live published on the Parker Harries website (and this spider web log - with links to their websites (see 2011 Sun Times Watercolour Competition - selected artists).

      Can I apply online? No - entry forms MUST live submitted with the operate which needs to live paw delivered to i of the regional venues. No entry cast - no submission.

      How practice I larn an application cast yesteryear post? Send an SAE to: The Watercolour Competition, Parker Harris, PO Box 279, Esher, Surrey, KT10 8YZ.

      Further Information Telephone the organisers Parker Harris on 01372 462190 or electronic mail watercolour@parkerharris.co.uk. Facebook and Twitter.

      Judges for 2011

      The alternative panel has almost completely changed for 2012.  I can't tell I'm surprised later on the 2011 Exhibition which prompted a few thoughts nearly ways inwards which the alternative powerfulness live improved.

      The jurors for 2012 are:<
      Personally, if there's going to live a panel I'd similar to meet to a greater extent than than i creative mortal on it.  It'll live interesting to meet what kind of exhibition they come upward up with.

      The Sun Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition

      An exhibition of unopen to 100 industrial plant volition live held betwixt 17 - 22 September 2012at the Mall Galleries, London SW1. This is followed yesteryear the Exhibition Tour to venues throughout the Great Britain betwixt Oct 2012 as well as Jan 2013.

      Links - Posts on this spider web log nearly the Sun Times Watercolour Competition inwards 2008-2011

      2011:
      2010
      2009
      2008

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