Call for Entries: Portrait Artist of the Year 2020
You have a month to enter sky arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2020. The deadline for entries to this prestigious art competition with a £10,000 commission first prize is 22nd February 2019
IF YOU WIN
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The benefits of entering Portrait Artist of the Year
Benefits include:- the chance to win a £10,000 commission for a portrait of a well known figure for a major British institution
- £500 of art materials from Cass Art
- becoming a well known name - due to the fact that
- it's the most popular art programme on television - and there are LOTS of people watching
- being watched by LOTS of people - and raising your profile if you impress those viewing
- facing a challenge you're unlikely to experience again
- becoming part of the community of artists who've "got the T shirt"
- you fancied being on the box so you could tell all your friends about it
- being watched by LOTS of people
- AND regretting that you ever entered because
- you didn't do your homework
- you didn't practise in advance working to 3 hours (i.e. nobody gets 4 hours!)
- your portrait was a mess and looked awful
The Producer accepts no responsibility for any damage, loss, liabilities, injury or disappointment incurred or suffered by You as a result of Your entering into the Competition.
So what's the worst that can happen if you enter - apart from the above?
This is how a reject letter reads
Dear Artist
Thank you for your application to Portrait Artist of the Year 2019.
We have received even more applications this year. The judges have now examined every single submission, and have been more impressed than ever with the standard of the artwork. As always, their job whittling these down to a shortlist of just 72 artists to take part in 8 heats has not been an easy one, but on this occasion we regret to inform you that your application has not been successful.
Due to increasing popularity with the public it has been necessary this year to ticket the heats at the Wallace Collection in London and all the sessions are now fully booked. If you are not attending the heats we sincerely hope you will tune in to watch the new series when it transmits on Sky Arts in January 2019, and also be inspired to enter again next year.
Don’t forget the deadline for Landscape Artist of the Year 2018 is 11th May, so there is still time to submit your application!
We hugely appreciate the time and effort you put in to enter our competition, and commiserate that this isn’t the news you’d hoped to receive. Without your enthusiasm and talent this would be a very different series.
As a small thanks we have also attached a voucher for Cass Arts.
With very best wishes we thank you again for your interest in and support of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year.
The Portrait Artist of the Year team
What's it like on the day? AND if you don't get selected to progress in the competition
This is a very good blog post by somebody who participated in 2017 - on the day I watched - re the 2018 contest, shown earlier this year on Sky Arts channel. It explains who the whole day works and what are the challenges that artists have to deal with.
....and now you've got that out of the way you can get on with the business of applying for Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2020!
....and now you've got that out of the way you can get on with the business of applying for Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2020!
Here's how to enter
This is a summary of:
- PROCESS: how the competition works
- Who can enter
- Portrait Artist of the Year 20209 - before the deadline for filming in April 2019
- Plus TIPS on how to enhance your entry.
