The Founders’ Sculpture Prize 2010/2011 - Prize Rules
1. Introduction
Scope of these Rules
These Prize Rules, which comprise both requirements and recommendations, will regulate the competition in 2010/2011 for The Founders’ Sculpture Prize (hereafter “Prize”). They are not intended to be unduly restrictive, but rather to make as clear as possible at the outset of the competition both the expectations of the Prize Committee and the obligations of competitors. If competitors are in any doubt about the meaning of these Rules, they are asked to consult the Prize Administrator at the earliest opportunity.
The Aims of the Prize
The aims of the prize are:
• To promote excellence and imagination in the art of figurative sculpture using the human form
• To foster figurative sculptors in the earlier stages of their careers, and to give them a unique opportunity of creative freedom within a commission context
• To encourage figurative sculptors to use cast bronze, and to increase public interest in cast bronze sculpture
• To increase the standard of technical skill in figurative sculpture
• To find new and meaningful expressions of the human figure in sculpture, and
• To challenge preconceptions about sculpture of the human form, and to stimulate public interest in figurative sculpture
Prize Sponsors and Host
The Prize is sponsored by the following bodies:
The Worshipful Company of Founders
The Gilbert Bayes Trust
Zahra Modern Art Foundries
The Society of Portrait Sculptors
The Prize display will be hosted by the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London.
Eligibility of competitors
Applications for the Prize are invited from any figurative sculptors in the early stages of their sculpting careers. There are no restrictions on nationality, age or sculpting qualifications, and the Prize Committee will look sympathetically at borderline applicants. However, the Prize Committee wishes the Prize to encourage up-and-coming sculptors in the early stages of their careers, rather than those whose careers are already established, and will not entertain submissions from competitors whose post-qualification sculpting careers exceed ten years in aggregate.
The Prize benefits
The Prize consists of the following financial and other benefits:
• There will be five shortlisted finalists (hereafter “Finalists”)
• Each Finalist will be commissioned to make Finalist’s Maquette(s) and Drawing(s) (as described below)
• Each Finalist will receive a Shortlisting Commission (as described below)
• Each Finalist will also receive the mentoring facility described below
• The winner of the Prize (hereafter “Winner”) will receive £5,000
• The Winner will be commissioned to make the Prize Sculpture (as defined below)
• The Winner will also receive the additional mentoring facility described below
• All the Finalists’ Maquettes and a bronze cast of the Prize Sculpture will be displayed at the Guildhall Art Gallery for approximately two months from October until December in 2011