Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize 2018

The Woon Foundation very generously funds an open call shortlist exhibition - including three major prizes - each year to the total value of £40,000. The 1st prize supports a Fellowship designed to offer a fine art graduate a structured opportunity to further develop their critical and conceptual understanding as well as their studio practice.

Woon Foundation Painting & Sculpture Prize is an important component of the partnership between Northumbria University and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Now in its sixth year, the Prize is open to all UK undergraduate Fine Art students who are in their final year of study, graduating in summer 2018.

The Art Prizes

1st Prize the Woon Tai Jee Art Fellowship will include:

• A year-long Woon Residency in the Woon Tai Jee Studio in Newcastle upon Tyne for the duration of the Fellowship from September 2018 until October 2019
• A bursary of £20,000 to be used to pay for the Fellowship in the Woon Tai Jee Studio and to contribute towards materials and subsistence
• The requirement to work towards a body of new work, which will be exhibited in a solo show in one of Northumbria University’s galleries in October 2019
• A mentor to support the critical and professional development of the Fellow

2nd Prize the Lim Ai Fang Art Prize = £9,000

3rd Prize the Cheong Kam Hee Art = £6,000

Entry Criteria

The following criteria apply to entrants:

• Applicants must be in the final year of an undergraduate Fine Art degree at a UK University
• Entries are limited to painting and sculpture

Deadline 03 April 2018

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