SAATCHI GALLERY AND SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ART PRIZE FOR SCHOOLS
Welcome to 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 have been invited to submit art work from students, up to the age of 18. The deadline for 2009 entries closed on Friday August 28.
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 - are currently considering work from the most promising young aspiring artists around the world. The winners will be announced in November 2009.
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 in December 2009 and will also be displayed in The Sunday Telegraph.
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 800 school groups have visited the new Saatchi Gallery since it opened in October 2008.
The Saatchi Gallery has launched a new art prize that creates a platform for the recognition of sculptural innovation - The Saatchi Gallery Sculpture at School Prize. Schools from the UK are now invited to submit sculpture entries separately for 2010.
Initiated in February 2003, Michele Bowman created Sculpture4Kids with the vision that sculpture should play a greater role in the school curriculum by encouraging art departments to participate in a nationwide sculpture competition.
The Saatchi Gallery took Sculpture4Kids under its umbrella in October 2009 to open the competition to a wider range of schools. Entrants for The Saatchi Gallery Sculpture at School Prize will now gain the opportunity to be shown at the Saatchi Gallery as part of the Saatchi Gallery/Sunday Telegraph annual competition.
The new Sculpture competition will focus on a theme or topic which all entries should be inspired by. For 2010 entrants, the theme is Everyday Materials Through the Looking Glass. Images of entries should be submitted online here.
Michele Bowman will be chairing the panel of judges from the Saatchi Gallery/Sunday Telegraph Schools Online Competition to select an overall winning school from the Sculpture Section at the end of next year. The school of the overall winner will receive £1000 prize money to spend on their art department. The winning pupil will receive £250 and 2 runner ups will be awarded £100 each
AN INTERNATIONAL ART PRIZE FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN UP TO AGE 18
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