The Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize 2024

Call for entries for the Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize 2024!

The Alpine Fellowship Foundation is a charitable foundation that supports, commissions and showcases artists, writers, academics and playwrights. The Alpine Fellowship Foundation is committed to discovering emerging talent, to disseminating new ideas and to sharing thoughts about art, literature and philosophy. All of foundation’s work is built around it’s symposium – an annual gathering of artists, philosophers, writers and academics at which the Alpine Fellowship Foundation encourage like-minded individuals to share expertise and knowledge with those from a diverse array of creative and intellectual professions.

Through the prizes Alpine Fellowship Foundation evaluates thousands of entries by entrants from around the world, and offer financial support in the form of grants, mentoring, performances and exhibitions of the work of talented young artists, writers, academics and playwrights. The Alpine Fellowship Foundation also work with partner artistic and academic institutions to commission new works of art and to further the humanities and interdisciplinary study.

Every year writing, visual arts, and theatre prizes are awarded to the best works concerning the years’ theme. The Alpine Fellowship theme for 2024 is ‘Language’. Awarded for the best visual arts response on the theme of ‘Language’ All media are permitted, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation – stating media, date and, where relevant, size. Videos should be no more than 8 minutes long. If your work is from a larger collection, please choose the single image that best displays the potential of your collection. Entries who submit more than one image may be disqualified at the judges discretion. Entry is limited to ONE entry per person. This means that you may only submit one artwork in your chosen disciple.

Submissions will be judged anonymously, so please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere on your work. Due to the volume of applications the judges decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into following the results. Judges:

• Sue Grayson Ford – MBE has enjoyed a 40 year career in arts administration since founding and directing the Serpentine Gallery as a platform for emerging artists. Later, she expanded the programme with exhibitions of international artists such as Giacometti, Saul Steinberg, De Kooning and Henry Moore.
• Julian Spalding – was a director of art galleries for Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow. He established the Ruskin Gallery, the St Mungo Museum of Religious Art and Life, the Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow and the Campaign for Drawing.