If you feel Modern Art is your calling and your talent just needs a little exposure to really take off in the art world, then there’s a website competition you should take a look at called Showdown.
Its organised by Charles Saatchi and his Saatchi Gallery in London and the competition is open to anyone to send in a picture of their artwork and the public will vote on it. The way it works is you enter your work and for seven days it gets voted on against the rest of that week’s entries, then the two with the most votes go head to head the next week to find a winner. The following week the process starts again with new entries until in a few months they’ll be 12 round winners who’ll all go head to head to find the ultimate winner.
The Showdown winner recieves £1,000 and hanging space in the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea. The runnerup gets £750. You can enter as many of the rounds as you want although you do have to register on the website. All visitors to the Showdown site can vote, scoring from 1-10. Voting for the first lot of entries starts Monday at 9am GMT but you can check out some of the competition on there now.
Charles Saatchi is the multi-millionaire former owner of the world’s largest advertising agency and reknowned for spending millions on Modern Art, he’s the guy who paid £150,000 for artist Tracy Emin’s My Bed, which was just her unmade bed moved to a gallery. I think he also bought Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab by Sarah Lucas (which consisted amazingly of two fried eggs and a kebab) for around 60 grand, so however off the wall your stuff is there’s always a chance this guy will write a big cheque.
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