Entry Form - Young Artists of the Year 2011 .
1.Submit a hard copy of the entry form (available to print via the above orange link, or pre-printed from The Biscuit Factory), together with a CD of high-resolution images and correct fee (£10 per piece of work submitted) in cash or cheque (payable to Sam Waters) to The Biscuit Factory, either in person or posted to the address:
Young Artists of The Year 2011, c/o Sam Waters, The Biscuit Factory, 16 Stoddart Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 1AN
or
2. Submit electronically by first using PayPal (link below) to pay foundation@thebiscuitfactory.com the correct amount (£10 per piece of work submitted) then email the completed entry form and high resolution images(s) to foundation@thebiscuitfactory.com
Please note that for electronic entries the PayPal transaction ID number should be added to the entry form to confirm your payment.
youngartistsoftheyear.wordpress.com 
Is it possible to know where the actual entry form is please
Hi Nadia,
The entry form is at the top of this page in orange text – just above the main body of text describing how to enter.
Click this and it will open the entry form as a Word document which you can complete and save and send. Or right-click it and click ‘Save link as’ and you can save it to your computer before you open it.
Entry forms are also available from The Biscuit Factory in Newcastle.
Hope this helps.
Is this competition open to international artists?
Hi Amber,
The competition is only open to artists living or working in the UK. I’ve just clicked the link to your website and can see that you’re based in Holland. Unfortunately I’m afraid that unless you are living or working here in the UK for a period while the competition is open then you will not be eligible.
Thank you for your interest though, and if you haven’t already done so then please sign up for The Biscuit Factory newsletter, because there may be opportunities for you in the near future…
You can sign up at the bottom of this page
is this just for 2d and is there a theme?
Hi Smoggy – and anyone else with this query,
The competition is not only 2D. We welcome submissions from any discipline, but because of the nature of the exhibition space there are a couple of restrictions on this: we can’t accept film-based artworks, projections, and large-scale installations. We want to be as inclusive as space and logistics will allow us though, and we understand that because this is a broad framework there may well be cases where an artist’s work ostensibly fits into one of these categories but we are able to show it because it’s specific requirements make it feasible. So if any artist feels their work may be eligible, but are unsure then please feel feel free to drop us a line on foundation@thebiscuitfactory.com and we’ll deal with enquiries on an individual basis specific to the nature of the particular pieces of work in question.
The criteria for size is a little more straightforward though: a 2D work mustn’t be bigger than 100x100cm (including any frame); and a 3D work must fit into a 100x100x100cm box.
Sorry if this excludes anyone, but we hope you appreciate that the practicalities of a large open call competition show like this mean we have to add these conditions.
The competition has no theme, so you are free to enter work of any subject or content you like – we hope everyone stays within the bounds of reasonable decency, of course!
I hope this helps.
The PayPal link is not working, it takes me to the Paypal Website but when I log in (I’m a registered user) it doesn’t take me to your payment page.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for this. Due to the vagaries and quirks of the platform our website is built on we can’t have a direct link to a PayPal payments page. So we ask that entrants just log-in to their PayPal account and pay us the correct fee for the number of entries they want to submit (to reiterate: £10 per piece of work, up to 5 pieces).
To do this:
Log-in to your PayPal account either through our link (which is just there for convenience) or via any other means. Click ‘Send Money’ on the menu bar at the top of the PayPal home page and fill in the little form – in the payment field type the address foundation@thebiscuitfactory.com. Type in the correct amount of money for your entry. It also asks you to click what you are paying for – please leave it on the default ‘Goods’, although for our purposes it makes little difference. Press the ‘Continue’ button and confirm. And that’s it. PayPal will immediately send a receipt of the payment to your email account. This will have a transaction ID at the top – please just add this to the entry form in the space provided. This is just so we can be certain we’ve correctly married up payments with entry forms. Then email us over the completed entry form and images.
Like most things, when written down that process seems far more complicated than it is – in reality it’s a straightforward 30 second job!
I hope this has clarified it for you.
Is there more than one prize?
by that I mean how many artists are selected in total for the exhibition?
Hi Nuala,
To answer your questions:
We will curate an exhibition from the best entries. The number of artists represented at this exhibition depends on the number of artists who enter, how many entries they each submit, the overall quality of entries, as well as the sizes and the display requirements of the specific pieces. We hope to show as many as we can, but obviously our exhibition space has only a finite amount of space, so we’ll be showing as many of the best entries as we can curate a cohesive show around.
We can’t put a figure on how many artists we will show at this stage, but I can say that the capacity of the space has in the past accommodated over 60 artists.
Even though you amended your question, I’ll quickly answer your first question here too, for the benefit of anyone reading who wants clarification or reiteration. From the exhibition a panel of judges will select an overall winner who will be honoured ‘Biscuit Factory Foundation Young Artist of the Year 2011’ with a solo show at The Biscuit Factory next year, and a package of prizes from Culture, Winsor and Newton, and Blackwell’s. During the exhibition visitors will be given the chance to vote on their favourites and a smaller prize package will be given to this ‘People’s Choice’ winner.
These are both in addition to the exhibition itself, selection for which is a prize in itself we hope!
Hi,
I am very interested and have a couple paintings on canvas. Do i send you photos of my painting along with my application form to show?
and also is photography work included in this artwork or is it just drawings?
Thanks
Hi Kelly,
Yes, please send us photographs (the higher resolution the better) of the paintings that you would like to submit, along with the entry form and the fee. The details on the ways to send us these are above.
Yes, photographs are eligible for the competition, as well as drawings, sculptures, prints, and almost any other medium.
Thanks for your interest. I hope this answers your questions, and we look forward to your submission.
Can’t get to the terms and conditions.
I’m a new graduate but old,….very old….
Can I still apply?
Hi Rhiannon,
Unless by ‘very old’ you mean 35 or under – and unfortunately from personal experience that does already feel very old – then I’m afraid you can’t apply.
That’s a bit ageist of us, I appreciate. But we had to qualify the ‘young’ of Young Artists of the Year, and putting a numerical age limit on it was the only realistic way – though of course, as you yourself suggest, it is possible to be a young artist in one sense, but be older in years. Confusing semantics aside, possibly frustratingly for you the bottom line is that this competition is only open for people 35 years old or under – regardless of whether you’re a proverbial baby in terms of how long you’ve been a practising artist.
But thank you for your interest in the competition and, as I think I may’ve mentioned to someone else above, please keep your ear to the ground for news of future Biscuit Factory opportunities that will be more suitable for you. You can join our mailing list at the bottom of this page.
Hello.
how many entries can one submit?
Hi Anna,
Each artist can submit up to 5 pieces of work. There’s a fee of £10 per piece. By ‘piece’ we basically mean something which you could show alone (without any accompanying pieces; for instance a standalone painting, although it could be part of a series, would – generally – be a single piece) and would sell as a single work (another tediously obvious illustrative example: a jewellery-maker might submit a pair of earrings, though there are two objects, they would only be sold as a set and so considered one piece).
And, to clarify for the benefit of anyone else who may be reading and wondering about this, you can send us as many photos of each piece of work as you want – or, more likely, as many as you can attach to an email.
I hope this answers your question and I haven’t unnecessarily complicated the issue…
Hi Sam,
What is the deal with framing? Will the work need to be sent to the gallery already framed up? My practice is collage based and although I have a few pieces framed, the pieces I am currently working on are yet to be framed.
If you could email me your reply,
Cheers
Phil
Hi Phil,
You have mail – or you will have in a few moments once I’ve written it…
Thanks
Sam
Hi,
Im wanting to submit a series of 5 peices that are individual but exsist together as one body of work, shall i submit them as 1 peice of work or 5 seperate works ?
thanks
Grace
Hi Grace,
Thanks for your enquiry.
The most straightforward way to address that is to ask yourself: if you were to sell them in a gallery – as you will hopefully be doing with us soon! – would it be as five pieces or as one. I’m not familiar with your work, but if you would price them individually on the wall of a gallery then they would be five separate works to enter. This would typically be the case for, say, a body of work that consisted of a series of paintings – each painting is, in most cases, a stand-alone piece of art and would be sold individually even though it’s also part of a series.
I hope that clarifies it a little for you and anyone else with a similar query. We’ve had a few regarding that issue, so apologies if the wording is too complicated – or perhaps it’s that it’s not complicated enough to get the information across properly…
Thank you and we look forward to receiving your submission – or submissions!