#Maythefourth be with you this month and the next, as I combine both months for a creative mash-up of fresh opportunities. This time of the year is the perfect point in your creative calendar to enter and make it into a Summer show, where you can ensure you get the most exposure.
A couple of highlight shows I think you should try and enter this month (depending on your medium of choice). The first is the Derwent Art Prize, with its looming deadline on the 8 May. It’s a prize that is purely focused on pencil, which is a rare thing in the competition world. And with prizes totaling £12,500 you can’t really afford to miss this one as a graphite eccentric!
The second is the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, which is the largest watercolour competition in the UK. In its 31st year, it aims to reward and celebrate originality in the medium. So if you’re thinking you need to create a picturesque, traditional watercolour landscape, you’d be wrong. Be bold with water!
I will make it my mission to update this list when I see more visual art opportunities (as I hope to enter some myself)! Good luck!
GAMMA Young Artist Competition – 6 May
Summer Salon – Islington Arts Factory – 6 May
Derwent Art Prize – 8 May
Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year – 11 May
The Richmond Magazine Competition – 17 May
Artrooms Art Fair London – 31 May
Secret Art Prize – 1 June
Lumen Prize – 1 June
Artsdepot Open Submission – 11 June
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize – 12 June
Sunny Art Prize – 20 June
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition– 25 June
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize – 27 June
The ACS Studio Prize – 30 June
Banner image: ‘View from Firefly’ by Tom Voyce – Winner of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2017
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