The Founders’ Sculpture Prize 2010/2011 - Prize Rules
4. The Prize and the Prize display
The components of the Prize
The Prize comprises the following elements:
• A cash payment of £5,000, of which half will be payable upon the announcement of the determination of the Winner, and the balance will be payable upon the delivery of the Prize Sculpture by the Winner to Zahra Modern Art Foundries for casting.
• Three (3) further mentoring sessions, on the lines of the mentoring sessions mentioned earlier in these Rules
• One bronze cast edition, numbered 1/6, (hereafter “the Prize Cast”) of the Prize Sculpture, without cost to the Winner, to the intent that title to the mould(s) of the Prize Sculpture will, upon its or their creation, pass to the Winner, and
• The display of the Prize Cast at the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London for a period of approximately two (2) months in 2011 after the creation of the Prize Cast by Zahra Modern Art Foundries, and otherwise upon terms determined by the Prize Committee and the Guildhall Art Gallery at their absolute discretion (but without any charge to the Winner)
The Prize Sculpture
The Prize Sculpture which will be commissioned from the winner of the Prize (hereafter “the Winner”):
• May be created in any medium chosen by the Winner, but must be capable of being cast in bronze
• Must be a fully three-dimensional figurative sculpture of the human form
• Must not be either a portrait head or a bas relief
• Must be of a single (subject as mentioned below) half life-size figure, of dimensions not exceeding 1000mm h x 250mm w x 250mm d, or similar variables of those measurements, but
• Notwithstanding the previous rule, may be of a group comprising two or more figures, provided that the approximate volume and complexity of the proposed sculpture comply with the foregoing limitations
Other Finalists’ drawings and maquette(s)
Drawings and maquette(s) submitted by the Finalists other than the Winner will be made available for exhibition or display at the Guildhall Art Gallery for a period not exceeding the period of display of the Prize Cast and otherwise upon terms determined by the Prize Committee and the Guildhall Art Gallery at their absolute discretion. Upon the termination of such display, the Finalists other than the Winner will be entitled to repossess such drawings and maquette(s), and to deal with them without further reference to the Prize Committee
Timetable for delivery of Prize Sculpture
The Prize Committee expects that the Prize Sculpture will have been completed and delivered to Zahra Modern Art Foundries for casting not later than the middle of July 2011. Although time is not of the essence for the date of delivery, the Prize Committee reserves the right not to pay the balance of the cash payment mentioned above if delivery is materially delayed without just cause previously notified to and accepted by the Prize Administrator