Calling all our young artists at Amberley
Children, please do enter the Rotary Young Artist Competition. The theme this year is 'Wonderful Water' and I want to encourage as many of you as possible to get creative! This is for everyone, not just those children who attend Art Club in KS2.
The ‘Wonderful Water’ Theme can be interpreted as broadly as the Young Artist wishes. Young people have the widest opportunity to share their creative talents in showing us what this theme means to them.
The Rotary Young Artist Competition is organised and promoted by Rotary GB&I. There are three stages to the competition, each designed to support and encourage the development of artistic skills. Some stages may have more than one round.
Aims and Objectives The competition aims to encourage young people to:
• be creative
• develop skills in using traditional, contemporary or digital media
• demonstrate interpretation of the topic
• express personal ideas through a selected medium
Competition Guidelines
Task To produce one finished 2-dimensional, up to a maximum size of A2, unframed, piece of artwork based upon the theme, ‘Wonderful Water’. We welcome artwork in any mediums e.g. pen & ink, paint, collage, print making or digital formats. Each entrant MUST provide a brief sentence describing the relationship of the artwork to the theme. This sentence must be entered on the entry form in the applicable place. Failure to do so will mean the entry is ineligible and the entrant therefore disqualified.
Please Note: Artwork which incorporates photographic images of people under 18 years or vulnerable adults must be accompanied by consent forms for the use of those photographic images.
Judges The judges will be people with appropriate skills appointed by the organisers at the club and district levels for the Local Heats and District Finals accordingly. At the National level the judges will be appointed by Rotary GB&I and will not be Rotarians. The judging criteria is as set out below.
Judging Criteria Judges will consider:
• technical merit
• content and composition
• imagination and style
• relevance to the theme.
The judges will not enter any discussion or correspondence regarding their decision; the decision of the judges will be final and not subject to any appeal.
Recognition At all stages of the competition, competitors will receive a Certificate of Participation.
Prizes Prizes of £75, 50 and £25 for the winner, runner up and third placed participant of each of the age groups for the National Final are kindly supplied by artist Lucy Pittaway and the Fine Art Trade Guild. The 3 winners will together, also have the opportunity to have a one-hour online meeting with Lucy, and fellow member of the Fine Art Group of the Guild and artist, Caroline Evans.
For an application form please contact Mrs Penn via email spenn@amb.dgat.org.uk
