Call for Entries - Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012
Tuesday, April 03 2012 @ 05:39 PM UTC
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The selectors for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 have been announced.
Stephen Coppel, Curator of the Modern Collection, Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum; Kate MacFarlane, Co-Director of The Drawing Room, London; and Lisa Milroy, Artist and Head of Graduate Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL will create an exhibition about current drawing practice in the UK.
The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Judged by an independent panel of selectors, the Prize is open to all UK based artists, from student to established, working with drawing. Expecting 2,000 entries, the selectors will choose between 50 and 70 drawings for an exhibition at JVA at Jerwood Space, London from 12 September - 28 October 2012. The exhibition will then tour to venues across the UK including to the new Jerwood Gallery, Hastings.
The total prize fund has risen from �11,000 to �17,000. The prizes are a first prize of �8,000, second prize of �5,000 and two student awards of �2,000 each.
Registration for artists entering the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 opens on Monday 2 April 2012 and will close at 5pm on Monday 18 June 2012. Once registered, artists are invited to submit their works through one of eight regional collection centres in Cardiff, Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Falmouth, Liverpool, Newcastle and Norwich, ending in London on Saturday 30 June 2012.
For further details and to register online please visit the JVA website: http://www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
Stephen Coppel, Curator of the Modern Collection, Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum; Kate MacFarlane, Co-Director of The Drawing Room, London; and Lisa Milroy, Artist and Head of Graduate Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL will create an exhibition about current drawing practice in the UK.
The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Judged by an independent panel of selectors, the Prize is open to all UK based artists, from student to established, working with drawing. Expecting 2,000 entries, the selectors will choose between 50 and 70 drawings for an exhibition at JVA at Jerwood Space, London from 12 September - 28 October 2012. The exhibition will then tour to venues across the UK including to the new Jerwood Gallery, Hastings.
The total prize fund has risen from �11,000 to �17,000. The prizes are a first prize of �8,000, second prize of �5,000 and two student awards of �2,000 each.
Registration for artists entering the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 opens on Monday 2 April 2012 and will close at 5pm on Monday 18 June 2012. Once registered, artists are invited to submit their works through one of eight regional collection centres in Cardiff, Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Falmouth, Liverpool, Newcastle and Norwich, ending in London on Saturday 30 June 2012.
For further details and to register online please visit the JVA website: http://www.jerwoodvisualarts.org