- art competitions based in the UK which have a first prize of less than £10,000
- the major open exhibitions by national art societies which I covered in UK National Art Societies: 2010 Open Exhibitions - dates and deadlines
National Portrait Gallery
Sandy Nairne announcing the winner of the BP Portrait Prize 2009
photograph copyright Katherine Tyrrell
Sandy Nairne announcing the winner of the BP Portrait Prize 2009
photograph copyright Katherine Tyrrell
Below you can find all the art competitions based in the UK that I'm aware of where the first prize is £10,000 or more. At least three of them have a first prize of £25,000.
Major Art Competitions in the UK in 2010
John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize: the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize is the UK's best-known painting competition
- receiving days: between - see below for details
- prize: first prise of £25,000
- exhibition:Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Biennial) - 18 September 2010 to 3 January 2011
- website: John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize 2010
- my blog post: to be posted
- receiving days: between 15th and 25th March - see below for details
- prize: first prise of £25,000
- exhibition: National Portrait Gallery 24 June to 19 September 2010 followed by national tour (2 venues)
- website: National Portrait Gallery - BP Portrait Award 2009
- my blog post: BP Portrait Award 2010 - Call For Entries
- receiving days: between March - see below for details
- prize: £25,000 (The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award) plus various smaller prizes
- exhibition: Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts
- website: Summer Exhibition - Royal Academy of Arts
- my blog post: How to enter the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2010
The Threadneedle Prize for figurative painting and sculpture. A new prize for contemporary figurative and representational art. Loses its USP for 2010 - the major prize will now be awarded by the selectors rather than via a public vote - shame!
- Registration opens: 1 Mar 2010
- Deadline for registration: Sculptors: 17 May 2010; Painters: 1 Jun 2010
- Receiving Days: 5-7 Jun 2010
- exhibition:Mall Galleries 2nd-18th September 2010
- website: THE THREADNEEDLE PRIZE for painting and sculpture
- my blog post: to be posted
- receiving days: between - see below for details
- exhibition:Bankside Gallery September 2010(?)
- prize: £12,000
- website: Parker Harris - RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
- my blog post: re 2009 see
- receiving days: September 2010(?); see below for details
- exhibition: Painters Hall, City of London, November 2010(?)
- website: Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize
- my blog post: re 2009 - see
- receiving days: September 2010(?); see below for details
- exhibition:Mall Galleries, November 2010(?)
- website: ING Discerning Eye
- my blog posts: (2009 - see
- deadline for photographic entries: 31st January 2010
- receiving days: date to be notified to shortlisted candidates
- prize: £10,000 cash prize and title 'Wildlife Artist of the Year 2010'
- exhibition: Mall Galleries
- website: Wildlife Artist of the Year 2010
- my blog post: re 2009 see Exhibition review: Wildlife Artist of the Year 2009
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