OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS
Check out the latest competitions to enter and make a note of important deadlines
Sending-in days Broadway Arts Festival Open Art Competition 2021
Details: The Broadway Arts Festival Open Art Competition is open to all artists in all media, including photography, sculpture, ceramics and design makers. Up to three entries per artist, with fees of £15 for the first piece entered and £10 for the subsequent three. A top prize of £1,000 is offered plus many more prizes. The exhibition runs from June 4 to 21. Closing date: Registration now open; closes on April 23. Contact: For details and to download entry forms go to www.broadwayartsfestival. com/artcompetition/ or email competition@ broadwayartsfestival.com
Chelsea Art Society
Details: Unfortunately the 2021 Chelsea Art Society Open Art Exhibition has been cancelled. The exhibition will take place in 2022 – more details to follow in the coming months. In the meantime, the society will hold an exhibition at 340 Kings Road, London, from September 6 to 19. Contact: www.chelseaartsociety.org.uk
Derwent Art Prize
Details: The Derwent Art Prize is a bi-annual competition and will not be taking place until 2022. Entries will be called from this summer until early 2022. Full details will appear on these pages in the coming months. For more information in the meantime email derwent@parkerharris.co.uk
Dorset Art Prize
Details: The Dorset Art Prize is free to enter and open to all Dorset residents, rewarding and celebrating art across Dorset. Various categories, including categories for young artists, allow both emerging and established artists the opportunity to showcase their work. An exhibition of selected work will take place at Poole Museum later in the year. Closing date: July 15. Contact: www.thecollege.co.uk/dorsetart-prize
Figurative Art Now
Details: In its 60th year, the Federation of British Artists is bringing together the best of figurative art by launching a new online selling exhibition and art prize called Figurative Art
Now. The organisers are seeking figurative work in a range of media including painting, drawing, sclupture, printmaking and illustration. Work should captivate the online audience of art lovers from far and wide and must have been made since January 1, 2020.
Closing date: Digital entries must be submitted by June 1, 5pm. Contact: Upload images at fan.artopps.co.uk
For more information go to www.mallgalleries.org.uk
Hahnemühle 2022 Calendar Competition
Details: The calendar competition is open to all artists in all painting and drawing media and traditional etching techniques, as well as mixed media that has been created on Hahnemühle or Lana paper. Five entries are permitted per person.
Closing date: June 30. Contact: www.hahnemuhle.com
Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize
Details: The prize is aimed at supporting, encouraging and mentoring emerging women painters. Each year 21 artists are chosen from a competition to exhibit at Burgh House, Hampstead in July, with a first prize awarded to a painter who has demonstrated exceptional potential to become an established professional artist.
Closing date: Open for entries until June 1.
Contact: www. ecclestoneartagency.com
New English Art Club (NEAC)
Details: The NEAC seeks work that demonstrates excellence in both concept and draughtsmanship. Artists over the age of 18 may submit paintings, drawings, pastels and original framed prints, not photography or sculpture. All work to be submitted online. The exhibition will take place at the Mall Galleries, London, from June 17 to 26. Closing date: Closing date for submissions is April 23, 12 noon. Contact: https://mallgalleries.oess1.uk
Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA)
Details: Submissions of paintings and sculpture are invited that involve the sea and the marine environment. Accepted media are oil, acrylic, watercolour, original prints of any media, pastels, sculpture or drawings. An exhibition of selected work will take place at the Mall Galleries later in the year; dates to be confirmed. Closing date: Upload images of work between Monday May 10 and Friday July 9, 12 noon at https://mallgalleries.oess1.uk Contact: https://mallgalleries.oess1.uk
Sketch for Survival Introducing
Details: Sketch for Survival Introducing is a charitable initiative organised by Explorers Against Extinction to help raise awareness about species extinction and habitat loss while also raising vital funds for nominated frontline conservation projects through the sale of artworks. The exhibition is free to enter. One hundred selected artworks join the Sketch for Survival exhibition alongside invited artists and celebrities and are included in the end of year auction. When: Open for submissions now. The closing date for entries is June 30.
Contact: Enter online at www. explorersagainstextinction.co.uk/
Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Series 7
Details: Open to amateur and professional artists, Landscape Artist of the Year is a televised art competition from Sky Arts, which celebrates artistic talent. Artists are selected on the basis of a landscape submission artwork. Contestants take part in one of six heats at various locations across the UK and Ireland, where they have four hours to complete their artwork. Prizes include a £10,000 commission.
Closing date: The closing date for entries is 12 noon on April 30.
Contact: To apply visit www.skyartsartistoftheyear.tv
Society of Equestrian Artists Open Exhibition
Details: Annual The Horse in Art open exhibition, held at Sally Mitchell’s Gallery, Nottinghamshire in September, invites entries. Check the website for up-to-date information.
Closing date: July, tbc. Contact: www.equestrianartists.co.uk
The Society of Women Artists
Details: The Society of Women Artists (SWA) invites submissions of fine art works including paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, engravings, lithographs and other printing techniques, for its 160th annual exhibition. The exhibition, which will be online and virtual, will run from September 21 until December
31. Prizes and awards are valued over £4,000 including the £1500 Young Artist’s Award.
Closing date: Open for digital submissions until June 25.
Contact: www.society-womenartists.org.uk
TALPOpen2021
Details: Organised by The Artist and Leisure Painter in partnership with Patchings Art Centre, the TALPOpen is looking for the best two-dimensional works in any media including drawing, painting, printmaking and digital artwork – from amateur painters in the Leisure Painter category and from more experienced and professional artists in The Artist category. Up to 140 selected works, 70 from each category, will be exhibited at Patchings Art Centre, in two separate galleries, Covid rules permitting, from August 21 until September 26. Prize awards worth over £13,500, include The Artist Purchase Prize of up to £3,000.
Closing date: extended to June 3. Contact: Full details on pages 14 and 15. Submit entries online via www.talp.co.uk
Wells Art Contemporary
Details: Wells Art Contemporary (WAC) is an open competition for visual art based in Wells, Somerset. An exhibition of selected work will open at Wells Cathedral on August 28.
Closing date: May 25. Contact: https://wac.artopps.co.uk/