Creative Global Network for the Visual Arts

ING Discerning Eye

Event Details

Time: September 1, 2013 from 7am to 7am
Location: UK
Website or Map: http://www.discerningeye.org/
Event Type: competition
Organized By: The Discerning Eye
Latest Activity: Feb 20, 2013

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Event Description

Likely submissions deadline: September 2013

The Discerning Eye is an educational charity, established in the UK in 1990, to encourage a wider understanding and appreciation of the visual arts and to stimulate debate about the place and purpose of art in our society, and the contribution each one of us can make to its development.

The ING Discerning Eye aims to produce a show of small works independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artist, two collectors and two critics. Work is selected from open submission and with works by artists invited by the individual selectors.

Prize: The ING Purchase Prize is £5,000 plus there are a variety of other prizes.

Eligible media: All works must be handmade and an original creation by the artist. Drawings, paintings and sculptures are admissable. Maximum size limit (20" x 20" including frame or plinth/stand)

Eligible artists: artists eligible to enter are those who are born in or resident in the UK.

Website: http://www.discerningeye.org/

Call for entries not yet given. Estimated month June 2013. Deadline - Artwork: Likely - September 2013

For an application form and further information please contact the Parker Harris website closer to the time (June 2013) - http://www.parkerharris.co.uk/artists/awards/index.php?ArticleID=215&subsection=downloads