WSA Opportunities

OPEN EXHIBITION

At Y Lle Celf at Anglesey a multi media exhibition will be held. Applications in both fine and applied art (including the moving image and performance art) are welcome.

Entrants are requested to submit work in the form of high quality Jpeg images accompanied by a clear statement concerning the work. Because of the large number of entries most of the works will be selected from these images, therefore it is important to submit clear images of your work and to show items that are available for the exhibition. Entrants who work through the medium of the moving image or performance are invited to present their work on DVD. After viewing the entries, the selectors may request further material. Also a small number of those short-listed for the exhibition may be visited by the selectors. The selected works will be displayed in Y Lle Celf for the duration of the Eisteddfod. Where the work necessitates, it may happen other than in the building itself.

Please contact the Visual Arts Officer if the requirements of this form do not appear to be relevant to your art practice.

The Eisteddfod tradition of honouring excellence will be maintained in the following sections:

FINE ART
THE GOLD MEDAL FOR FINE ART
Prize: The Gold Medal for Fine Art (replica) (In memory of Gwilym Evans (Architect), Llangefni) and £5,000 (James Pantyfedwen Foundation) to be awarded at the discretion of the selectors.

CRAFT AND DESIGN
THE GOLD MEDAL FOR CRAFT AND DESIGN
Prize: The Gold Medal for Craft and Design (replica) and £5,000 to be awarded at the discretion of the selectors.

YOUNG ARTIST SCHOLARSHIP

Scholarship: £1,500 (Loveday Street Church, Birmingham)
The scholarship will be awarded to the most promising candidate to enable him/her to pursue a course in a recognised school or college of art and design or attend master classes. The scholarship is open to those under 25 years at the time of the Eisteddfod. Short-listed candidates will be expected to prepare a portfolio of work and submit a letter of application describing how the scholarship will be put to use. The work submitted may be displayed in Y Lle Celf. The successful candidate may also be offered space at the following Eisteddfod’s Lle Celf to display his/her work.

IVOR DAVIES AWARD

Prize: £600. Awarded to the work in the Open Exhibition that conveys the spirit of activism in the struggle for language, culture and politics in Wales.

TONY GOBLE AWARD

Prize: £500 (in memory of Tony Goble). Given for work, that conveys the poetic spirit of this Celtic nation, by an artist exhibiting in the Open Exhibition for the first time. Awarded, on behalf of the family, by Peter Lord.

JOSEF HERMAN AWARD – THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE

Prize: £500 (Josef Herman Art Foundation) to the most popular work, or collection of works, in the Open Exhibition – an opportunity for the public to vote.