‘Art Below London’ Underground Exhibition and Gallery Show this June during the Diamond Jubilee: Now open for submissions

 

Submissions are now being accepted for ‘Art Below London‘ giving you access to advertising space in the London Underground to showcase your work for the first 2 weeks of June.

 

This exhibition has been planned to co-incide with the Diamond Jubilee, when crowds of visitors will be thronging into central London, making this an amazing marketing opportunity for you and your work.

 

As an Art Below exhibitor your chosen piece of work will also be on show to the public as an A2 framed lambda print sponsored by Genesis Imaging at the Underground Gallery located in the very heart of London, within Exit 9, inside the Charing Cross underground station, just seconds away from Trafalgar Square.  There will be a private view event with complimentary drinks for you and your guests to attend on the 6th June.

 

If you would like to receive further information on how you can exhibit your work on public space with Art Below then please register your interest.

Vote for your Favourite Ever British Animated Character

Given the current debate about the future of animation production in the UK and the Animation UK Campaign (formerly known as Save British Animation), for 2012 BAA are running an online poll and discussion forum to determine the UK’s Favourite Ever British Animated Character of all time.

To celebrate the rich heritage of notable and well-loved animated characters, BAA are asking you to nominate, and discuss, your favourite characters for consideration for their shortlist : winner to be announced at the British Animation Awards 2012.

They are asking you to nominate present favourites and cast your minds back to best-loved characters from the past.  Will it be Simon’s Cat or Wallace or Gromit or Roobarb or Custard? The Meerkat or virtual cartoon band the Gorillaz?  Dangermouse, Bagpuss , Bob the Builder? Delving further back into history: Noggin the Nog or Captain Pugwash? The Lurpack buttermen? And the list will go on…

The only qualification is that the character was created in the UK – for a TV series, ad campaigns, or online, or one-off TV special.

Nominate your favourite, and tell BAA why! febac@britishanimationawards.com. Check out who has already been nominated here.

The Reel Presents…straight 8. Monday 5 March 2012 at the Cafe 1001, Brick Lane

Check out a delicious dollop of fantastic shorts, promos, experimentals and content at The Reel Presents…

They’ll be sifting through the best work from the past couple of months and putting together a programme of top-notch work from signed and un-signed directors.

This month’s guests are the irrepressible guys from straight8. If you’ve never heard of straight8, it’s an amazing competition that invites filmmakers to make a short film on one cartridge of Super 8 — without editing. They’ll be explaining the comp and showing the best work from 2011’s selection, as well as giving any wannabe 8ers the chance to sign up and get free ‘Best Of’ DVDs.

Doors will be open at 6:30 for a 7pm start.

Remember, you do need to sign up for a ticket to get entry, but the tickets are free.

Inspired by…the V&A’s annual art competition for people on part-time courses

Inspired by … is the V&A’s annual art competition for people on part-time courses, and is supported by NIACE, the National Institute of Continuing Education.

Participants create a work of art or craft inspired by the collections of either V&A South Kensington, or the V&A Museum of Childhood. Entries are submitted in May and judged by a panel of curators. The prize-winners and other selected works are displayed in the museum of their inspiration during October. 

Deadline for applications is Wednesday 16 May 2012.

Visit the V&A’s website for further information.

Competition : 100 book covers to fight illiteracy

Antwerp artist Tom Haentjens (whose design company, beshart, specialises in three-dimensional paper cut-outs) has recently launched an international competition for illustrators and designers to re-design the covers of the “100 greatest novels of all time“.

The works will be turned into posters, and profits of sales will go to an organisation fighting illiteracy.  Find out more information about the competition here.

Can you produce artwork for the Main Press Centre at the Olympics 2012?

UCA, on behalf of the Creative Campus Initiative, has been commissioned to work with the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games to create 2D artwork for the Olympic Park.

Called ‘The Big Picture’, this is a fantastic opportunity to create one of 16 large scale paintings (2x2m) for the London 2012 Media Centre. This is open to individuals, groups of students and their tutors and comes with a £1,200 materials fee. More information can be found at the Podium website.

The deadline for concepts is 12^th January with artwork required soon after.

 If you have any questions please contact Cara Courage directly (CCI Co-Director) at cara@caracourage.net.

British Animation Awards sheep sting competition

Deadline : February 5th, 2012

The BAA sting brief is to create a short animation (between 4 – 25 seconds long) that contains one (or more sheep) with extra points for weaving in references to animation and or the UK.

To enter, please email your BAA 2012 Sheep stings to stings@britishanimationawards.com along with a covering email including; your name, phone number and email address. Please title the file name as your full name. If above 10mb, please email a download link.

The best of the Observer graphic short story prize

The Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize has been running for five years, discovering and publishing the writers and artists of the future.  Graphic novelist Bryan Talbot recently picked out his favourite entries from the competition, including work by UCA Maidstone Illustration graduates Faye Moorhouse and Scott Dessert.

You can view the selected work here.

Applications for FLAMIN Productions 2011 are now open

Deadline for submissions: 5pm, Monday 5 December 2011

Film London and Arts Council England present FLAMIN Productions, a major commissioning scheme for London’s artist film-makers. Part of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network, FLAMIN Productions aims to support the most exciting, innovative and challenging moving image projects with production finance and bespoke mentoring opportunities.

FLAMIN Productions is the only scheme of its kind in the UK. It commissions new, single screen works that are ambitious in premise and duration, with an emphasis on projects that have strong potential to reach audiences through gallery exhibition and screenings.

Over the period 2011/12 to 2014/15, FLAMIN Productions will be investing £360,000 of production funding with awards of between £20,000 to £50,000 available. This is the first call for applications. In this round up to 5 projects will be shortlisted and invited to develop their ideas for resubmission as full production tenders. Projects will then be reassessed for production funding.

More information on how to apply for funding please visit the FLAMIN website.

The Book Illustration competition 2011

Deadline : 10th January 2012

Following the success of last year’s inaugural Book Illustration Competition the House of Illustration and The Folio Society have announced a second competition to illustrate The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter.

The winning entry will become a commission worth £4,000 to complete the illustrations for the book which will be published by the Folio Society in Summer 2012. Five runners up will each receive £500 cash. To enter you will need to submit three illustrations and a binding design by the 10th January 2012.

For more information, including details of how to register please visit the House of Illustration website.