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Call For Entries For £30,000 Threadneedle Prize 2012

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The Threadneedle Prize aims to attract the really best inwards novel figurative together with representational icon together with sculpture.  This post:
  • tells you lot nearly the Threadneedle Prize 
  • unpicks the procedure of submitting operate and 
  • highlights the key dates for submission together with the exhibition.
2011 Threadneedle Prize Winner
© Henrietta Stimson "Bad Government (After Lorenzetti)"
About the Threadneedle Prize

The PURPOSE - my emphasis (in red) highlights the focus of the competition
The Threadneedle Prize is the UK's leading showcase for contemporary figurative together with representational icon together with sculpture.

Our aim is to promote together with display industrial plant that usage a multifariousness of unlike mediums, styles together with approaches, amongst an overall focus on the quality together with confidence of the finished work. The contest sets out to promote together with encourage excellence.

Experienced together with emerging artists are invited to submit fresh together with intriguing industrial plant that are strong together with topical observations on the basis roughly us.
The PRIZE MONEY (see The Prizes) together with other benefits

The Threadneedle Prize is potentially the most valuable fine art contest for a unmarried operate of fine art inwards the UK.  An creative individual volition win £40,000 if their artwork wins both the Threadneedle Prize (£30,000) together with the Visitors' Choice Award (£10,000).

The Threadneedle Prizes 2012 total £46,000 together with comprise:
  • The Threadneedle Prize: £30,000
  • The Visitors’ Choice: £10,000
  • The Threadneedle Prize Finalists (5 awarded): each £1,000
  • Visitors' Choice Finalists (2 awarded): each £500
The Threadneedle Prize provides additional benefits to selected artists:
  • Your operate volition live reviewed past times respected artists together with curators
  • Work past times selected artists volition live seen in:
    • a three-week exhibition at the Mall Galleries inwards fundamental London.
    • an online exhibition on the Threadneedle Prize website.
  • Invites to events together with opportunities to talk nearly your operate amongst potential collectors.
  • Media coverage of the Prize inwards broadsheets together with top fine art blogs (including this one!) together with occasional press photos.
The PAST WINNERS

This is the 5th twelvemonth of the competition. Click the links to come across previous winners who are:
  • 2008: Nina Murdoch, Untitled (71 industrial plant exhibited)
  • 2009: Sheila Wallis, Self Portrait (87 industrial plant selected for exhibition)
  • 2010: Patricia Cain, Building the Riverside Museum (46 industrial plant selected)
  • 2011: Henrietta Simson, Bad Government (After Lorenzetti) (52 industrial plant inwards exhibition)
Notice a trend? Every twelvemonth this contest has been won past times a woman.  Last twelvemonth 6 of the seven shortlisted artists were women together with all were nether 40.  I'm non of the sentiment that it's some form of feminist clique hence much every bit the fairer sexual activity maybe getting a ameliorate fissure at the prizes - perchance due to the selectors beingness unlike every year.  Mind you lot this twelvemonth they're all male!

How it works

The selectors practise a shortlist of 6 industrial plant from which they hence take away the winner of the £30,000 Threadneedle Prize. The 6 runners upwardly each larn a prize of £1,000
  • The winner of the £30,000 Threadneedle Prize is chosen past times 3 selectors from a shortlist of 6 industrial plant submitted through the opened upwardly submission.  Each of the 5 runners upwardly volition have £1,000. 
  • The £10,000 Visitors' Choice Prize volition live awarded past times the full general public.  The major plus betoken for selected artists is that ALL the artwork selected for the Exhibition is eligible to win this prize. Two Visitors' Choice Prize runners upwardly volition also have £500. Voting for the Visitors' Choice Prize takes house inwards the gallery together with ends earlier the concluding exhibition day.  
Threadneedle Prize 2012 - Call for Entries 

This is an OPEN fine art competition but at that spot are some restrictions which are explained below.

Last twelvemonth 4,350 industrial plant were submitted past times the 2,377 artists - together with 52 industrial plant were selected for exhibition.


That's the equivalent of 0.01% of the those who submitted work.  On the other manus if you lot practise larn selected it's a major boost to your CV together with you lot mightiness simply win that £10,000 prize irrespective of whether the selectors call upwardly you're eligible for the top prize!

Every unmarried entry selected for the concluding exhibition is sourced through an opened upwardly contest process. Each year, the panel of selectors take away a position out of paintings or sculptures which are hence displayed inwards exhibition held at the Mall Galleries inwards September 2011.

Key points of involvement for artists are:
  • There should live no entries promoted past times Selectors or the Gallery or the Sponsors
  • The alternative panel is changed every year
  • There are no invited artists. 
  • Everybody has an equal peril - together with the residual is upwardly to the merit together with sentence of the selectors.  As e'er that mean's it gets a fleck personal every bit to their preferences but the alternative panel modify every twelvemonth - hence what was definitely flavor of the month last year mightiness non live favoured this year. 
The 2012 selectors (See Selectors)

This year's selectors are:
Below you lot tin terminate detect out who tin terminate come inwards together with progress through to what you lot tin terminate enter.

Can I submit artwork? (see Official Page: Who is eligible to enter?)

Artists living or working inwards the Great Britain or Continental Europe are eligible to come inwards this competition.
  • you tin terminate live whatever nationality
  • you MUST be aged xviii or over on 1 Jan 2012
  • BUT you lot cannot come inwards if you are an employee of the Federation of British Artists together with Threadneedle, together with their agents. 
Unlike the BP Portrait you lot tin terminate come inwards ane time again fifty-fifty if you lot possess got won earlier (as tin terminate whatever of the previous prizewinners).  You tin terminate also submit upwardly to 3 works, but they are non eligible to win the same prize for a catamenia of 3 years.

What type of artwork tin terminate I enter?

In each department I supply a link to the official related page on the Threadneedle Prize website which provides farther information

Does it postulate to live novel work?  Works must NOT possess got been exhibited inwards whatever other prize or contest inwards the Great Britain or elsewhere.

What form of media is eligible? In price of painting you lot tin terminate submit:
  • work inwards a multifariousness of mediums, including oil, tempera, acrylic, ink, vinyl, watercolour together with other dry out mediums - hence long every bit the operate is dry by the instant pre-selection viewing phase together with is gear upwardly to hang.  (Can't you lot simply tell the organisers are non thrilled past times operate beingness submitted which is however moisture or sticky)
  • work on whatever shape of back upwardly (canvas, paper, wood, plastic etc).
Other media you lot tin terminate come inwards include:
  • original drawings
  • original prints
  • sculptures
  • mixed media constructions (photography together with video is alone eligible inside the context of a mixed media installation)
  • small-scale installations and 
  • reliefs 
If you're non certain whether your operate fits a category contact the organisers.

Presentation, size together with format all matter!  All operate pre-selected for handing-in must live received inwards exhibition condition (i.e. all canvases must live dry out together with mounted on stretchers or board) but amongst no hanging devices.

With honor to size:
  • diptychs together with triptychs tin terminate live entered every bit ane work
  • the unpacked size of industrial plant must smaller than 2.4m (and works must live delivered UNPACKED)
  • works inwards excess of 2m squared may non live accepted past times the regional collection service or other delivery/collection services. Check earlier you lot start rather than simply assuming the carrier will take away it.  
How many industrial plant tin terminate I enter?

A maximum of 3 NEW artworks can live entered. In addition:
  • The operate must possess got been completed AFTER 1 Jan 2011. All artwork must live recent - former artwork is NOT eligible 
  • This must also live the commencement exhibition for each work. That means works which possess got been previously exhibited inwards whatever other prize or contest anywhere inwards the basis are NOT eligible. 
  • ALL industrial plant possess got to live for sale. (i.e. no commissions/sold work). Commercial galleries are non a charity together with these days priority tends to be given to industrial plant which tin terminate earn them a commission.
Last twelvemonth the aim was to take away 65 but the selectors alone took 52 works.  Personally I inclined to the see they were beingness a fleck every bit good precious. (Read my Review: Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2011)

How to enter

Last twelvemonth the procedure became two-stage, amongst the commencement phase involving the submission of a digital file. This resulted inwards a large growth inwards submissions from the regions - who no longer risked an expensive journeying to London or the toll of a carrier for the less than 1% peril they'd larn a operate selected.  Now artists alone postulate to convey their artwork to London if they brand it through to the instant stage.

It does postulate to live emphasised that this is a prestigious exhibition amongst a seriously large entry.  The numbers of entries went from some 2,100 inwards 2010 to 4,350 inwards 2011 - all because the alternative procedure switched to the digital file for screening purposes.

Digital Images

It's worth maxim a give-and-take nearly digital images.  Selection is based on the lineament of the prototype every bit good every bit the lineament of the artwork
Image files may live JPG (recommended) or PNG at no to a greater extent than than 4MB inwards size. The organisation volition take away varying resolutions together with prototype dimensions. (Recommend is a maximum resolution of 300dpi together with maximum pixel dimensions of 1024 pixels broad or high for optimal viewing).
The occupation is, it's in all probability an understatement to say an awful lot of artists possess got however non quite got the hang of how to photograph their operate to practise their operate justice together with give it a fighting peril of selection.  If you lot don't know what you're doing and/or possess got non got a skillful plenty digital photographic boob tube camera you lot in all probability postulate to employ a professional person photographer.  Try together with detect ane who is used to photographing artwork rather than weddings - it actually does brand a difference!

I perish on important to wrote a weblog post nearly how to photograph your artwork!

Registration

To come inwards you lot postulate to register together with submit a digital file.  Registration opened on 1 March together with closes at 12pm  on Wed 23 May 2011.  It costs £12 per operate to enter. Artist members of the FBA together with full-time students pay a reduced entry fee of £10 per work.

You tin terminate detect the registration portal at http://registrationmallgalleries.org.uk/ - click the push for The Threadneedle Prize

In fellowship to come inwards you lot must practise 4 things
  • PHOTOGRAPH: take away a photograph of your operate together with practise a digital file(see notes below). Slides or prints are non acceptable - it must live a digital file. Plus salve to a CD if submitting entry past times post
  • FILL IN H5N1 FORM: 
    • either consummate the online registration form 
    • or secure together with consummate the printed version. You should print off the shape from the website (or larn ane posted to you)
  • SUBMIT ENTRY:
    • upload digital images via website
    • post digital image(s) via a CD amongst a completed printed shape together with a banking enterprise check for the fee to the Mall Galleries' role address to larn inwards past times no afterward than
  • PAY: pay a fee via ane of 3 methods
    • via paypal after you lot possess got received your login code
    • via a credit bill of fare over the telephone
    • via a banking enterprise check past times post (for postal entries)

To register you lot need:
  • all the data for the registration form
  • the powerfulness to pay online using Paypal or past times telephoning the gallery together with using a credit/switch card
  • the digital file (not exceeding 4MB)
Pre-selection Notification

You postulate to login ane time again on 30 May 2012 to detect out the Pre-selection results on the notification date.  If successful you'll live told what to practise adjacent - but you lot tin terminate also come across this on the FAQs page

2nd stage: submission of work

IF SELECTED, Your artwork(s) should live delivered, unpacked, to the administrative offices of the Mall Galleries at 17 Carlton House, London SW1Y 5BD betwixt 10am together with 5pm on Friday 8 June or Sabbatum nine June 2012.  Here's details of how to larn there. Work which has non been selected volition NOT live accepted together with industrial plant delivered on other dates volition also NOT live accepted.

Receiving Day
The entrance to the basement of the Administrative Office at 17 Carlton House Terrace
Prior to this at that spot are a position out of regional handing inwards points - to which operate tin terminate live delivered AFTER the proclamation has been made nearly which industrial plant possess got been selected together with prior to the Mall Galleries delivery deadline.

The Exhibition

The Exhibition is held at the Mall Galleries together with volition opened upwardly to world on 26 September 2012 together with unopen on 13 Oct 2012.   There is an Dinner on at which the Prizes are given.

Good luck!

Links

2011 Exhibition:
Other data nearly fine art competitions inwards the UK

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