The Prize
The Noble Prize for Sculpture - a competition for sculptors
REGULATIONS
Goals
The Bernard Noble Sculpture Foundation ("the Foundation") has the objective of supporting and encouraging young, emerging and/or unrepresented sculptors by means of the annual award of a sculpture prize (the Noble Prize for Sculpture) to an artist for a sculpture to be acquired and exhibited by the Foundation.
Conditions for participation
- The Competition is open to artists located in the United Kingdom or Italy.
- Participation is free.
- Each artist may submit either a sculpture or a maquette (or drawings, written statements, photographs, plans, etc) for consideration or commission with no limitations regarding subject, dimensions, technique or medium other than as laid out under point 4, below.
- The winning sculpture will be exhibited outdoors and be subject to wind, rain, sun and extremes of temperature and must therefore be made of material(s) that can be considered lasting. It must be of a scale that is suitable for an outdoor landscape.
- The winning sculpture will be acquired and retained by the Foundation as part of its collection.
- The artist is responsible for the costs of the execution and realisation of the sculpture.
- The Foundation shall assume the costs of transport and installation.
- The Foundation reserves the right to not award a prize in any given year.
- Artists who wish to participate must complete an application form that must be sent to the Foundation at info@bnsf.org.uk or The Bernard Noble Sculpture Foundation, 80 Dora Road, London, SW19 7HH with supporting materials to arrive no later than the fifth of February.
- Materials will either be returned to the artist at the artist's expense or remain on deposit at the Foundation's archive.
Selection and award of the prize
The selection and award will take place in three stages.
- The first phase will comprise a review of all materials submitted to the Foundation. The review will result in a short list of sculptures that will be considered for the prize. It will be undertaken by the Foundation's trustees and by any external jurors that may be invited to join the trustees in adjudication.
- The second phase will comprise a visit by some or all of the jurors to conduct an 'in-situ' review of the short-listed sculptures or maquettes or proposals.
- The third phase will comprise the award of a prize of no less than £5,000 (five thousand pounds sterling) on or no later than the sixth of May.
The jurors
Mr Robert Barr (Trustee)
Mrs Anna Best (Cultural Association of Colletta di Castelbianco)
Mr Neil Burgess (Trustee)
Mr Mario Cavalli (Trustee)
Mr Richard Jennings (Trustee)
Mrs Adriana Noble (Trustee)
Mr Bruno Noble (Trustee)
Click here for a pdf copy of the application form.
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