The Bernard Noble Sculpture Foundation

Welcome

The Bernard Noble Sculpture Foundation has as its objective to support, encourage and promote young, emerging and/or unrepresented sculptors by means of the annual award or commission of an outdoor sculpture prize (the Noble Prize for Sculpture) to an artist for a sculpture to be acquired and exhibited by the Foundation .

The sculpture would be exhibited in the grounds of Colletta di Castelbianco in Liguria in Italy. The Foundation has undertaken to establish the Colletta Sculpture Park there in association with the Cultural Association of Colletta di Castelbianco. The park will be open to public access in order to display sculptures acquired by the Foundation.

The Prize will be for a minimum of £5,000. It is hoped that the size of the Prize will be augmented by creation the Foundation's not-for-profit internet market or forum for sculptors to post and sell their work and for the general public to buy it, with all net proceeds going to augment the value of the prize or commission. Sculptors wishing to sell their work to the public and prospective buyers wanting to buy sculptures should click on Gallery.

The Foundation was established in 2008 and granted its first prize in May 2008. For more information on the competition and on eligibility rules, artists should click on Noble Prize for Sculpture.

"Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight - sunlight - is necessary to it and, for me, its best setting and complement is nature. I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape - almost any landscape - than in or on the most beautiful building I know." Henry Moore, 1951