Tate Times Drawing Challenge
 John Constable, Self portrait, 1806 Pencil on paper support: 190 x 145 mm |
If you are aged 11–18 and love drawing, Tate, in partnership with The Times newspaper, is offering you a unique chance to exhibit at Tate Modern as part of the remarkable four-day festival UBS Openings: The Long Weekend (25–28 May 2007).
If you fancy the chance of seeing your work displayed at Tate Modern then send us an A4 drawing of yourself using either pen, pencil or fixed charcoal to the address below before Saturday 14 April 2007.
Although the theme is simple we think it offers lots of room for you to use your imagination, reflect your individual personality and show your style of drawing. Many famous artists have used the self portrait in lots of different ways and there are many great examples in Tate’s Collection.
UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2007
The late May bank holiday festival is a wonderful mix of unique performances
fusing music, film, art and performance in the fabulous Turbine Hall space
and daylong entertainment for families and children.
It brings to life the newly hung displays at Tate Modern which focus this
year on drawing.
Challenge Details:
Make sure your drawing is A4 in size and has your name, age and a contact
telephone or email clearly on the back, to the following address by Friday
13 April 2007. A jury including Tate Modern’s Head of Education, Anna Cutler;
The Times’s critic Rachel Campbell Johnston; UBS’s curator Joanne Bernstein;
Artist and Professor of Drawing at Chelsea College of Art, Stephen Farthing;
and the artist Grayson Perry, will select the best to show as part of UBS
Openings: The Long Weekend.
Address for entries:
Tate Times Drawing Challenge
Tate Media
Millbank
London
SW1P 4RG
- The competition is organised by the Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery (“Tate”).
- Only one drawing may be submitted per person.
- Competition entrants must be aged between 11 and 18.
- Tate accepts no responsibility for any entries submitted that are lost or delayed in the post.
- All contact details on the back of drawings must be legible. Tate will not consider entries where the contact details are illegible.
- Tate will not enter work for selection where the criteria for the challenge not been met.
- The winning entrants whose drawings are selected for the exhibition at Tate Modern will be notified by Monday 21 May 2007. There will be no other prize or cash alternative.
- The final closing date for entry is 14 April 2007.
- The jury decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- Tate shall own all copyright in the drawings submitted.
- The competition is not open to the employees or freelance contractors of Tate or News International or their families or to any person directly or indirectly involved with running the competition.
- The winning submissions and all other entry drawings are strictly non-returnable. None of the competition entrants (including the winners) will have any involvement in the hanging or display of the drawings.
