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Woon Foundation Painting & Sculpture Prize 2019

Updated: 31 January 2019

Open to final year, UK based undergraduate Fine Art students

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 2019.

The Art Prizes

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

  • A year-long Woon Residency in the Woon Tai Jee Studio at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne for the duration of the Fellowship from September 2019 until October 2020

  • A bursary of £20,000 to be used to pay for the Fellowship in the Woon Tai Jee Studio, Northumbria University, 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 2020

  • 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

For the first time, we are delighted to be able to offer all ten shortlisted artists 12 months Axisweb membership. Axisweb is an online platform supporting, mentoring and profiling artists.

Deadline 1 April 2019

The Woon Foundation / BALTIC 39 / Northumbria University
Facebook: @baltic39 / @NorthumbriaLondon
Twitter: @balticmill / @NorthumbriaUni
Apply here

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