The Sunday Telegraph and the Saatchi Gallery have launched The Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools 2009. In a bid to find and showcase art’s brightest young stars, primary, secondary and sixth form schools from around the world are invited to submit art work from students, up to the age of 18.

Over the next four months, a panel of judges - artists Antony Gormley and Peter Blake, The Sunday Telegraph's art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon, Ekow Eshun, the artistic director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Camila Batmanghelidjh, CEO of Kids Company - will consider work from the most promising young aspiring artists around the world.

The deadline for entries will be Friday August 28, with the winners to be announced in October.

A first prize of £10,000 will be awarded to the winning school’s art department, with a further £2,000 given to the winning pupil to be spent on art and computer equipment. There will be two further runner-up prizes of £5,000 each to be awarded to the second and third placed schools, with a further £1,000 to each of the winning pupils.

The winning entries for The Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools will be exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery in London and will also be displayed in The Sunday Telegraph.

During the competition, The Sunday Telegraph will also showcase a selection of new submissions every week at www.telegraph.co.uk and a rotating selection of works submitted for the prize will be on display at the Saatchi Gallery.

The Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools is part of the gallery’s education programme which is committed to introducing contemporary art to younger audiences. More than 650 school groups have visited the new Saatchi Gallery since it opened in October 2008.

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ART PRIZE FOR SCHOOLS

The order in which schools appear is random and changes regularly.