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Welcome to The Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for
Schools 2009. A shortlist of 20 works has been drawn up including a
range of paintings, photography, collage, film and installations
submitted from schools around the world. These 20 works will be
exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London (2-14 December 2009), and
the winners and runners-up, chosen by the 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 be announced in the Sunday Telegraph on 29 November.
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 Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools is open to
primary, secondary and sixth form schools from around the world who were
invited to submit art work from students up to the age of 18. Over 2,000
schools entered work for the 2009 Prize, with more than 22,000 works
submitted. The Prize is part of the Saatchi Gallery's education programme
which is committed to introducing contemporary art to younger audiences.
More than 800 school groups have visited the new Saatchi Gallery since it
opened in October 2008.
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