London’s Saatchi Gallery has teamed up with the Firtash Foundation to launch the first open competition for all emerging artists from the UK and Ukraine. The aim of the GB£75,000 “UK/raine” competition is to find and support the most imaginative and talented young artists between the ages 18-35 years who are living and working or currently enrolled on a BA or MA course in the UK or Ukraine, or born in either country.Artists can enter their work via the Saatchi Gallery’s website (http://www.saatchigallery.com/uk/raine) into one of five categories: installation, new media (including video and photography), painting, sculpture, and street art. A shortlist of 30 artists (six from each category) will be given the opportunity to exhibit their work at the Saatchi Gallery during a month-long exhibition running from November 24, 2015 to January 3, 2016.A panel of esteemed judges will select an overall winner as a well as a winner from each of the five categories. The winners will be announced at the launch of the exhibition and VIP private view in London on November 23, 2015. Each of the category winners will receive GB£10,000 and the overall winner of the prize a further GB£20,000. There will also be a winner of a separate public who will receive GB£5,000 towards production costs.For more information visit the competition website here.
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