The Founders’ Sculpture Prize
2008/2009
Sponsored
by The Worshipful Company of Founders, The Gilbert Bayes
Trust, Morris Singer
Art Founders, and the Society of Portrait Sculptors
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PRIZE RULES
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1
Introduction
Scope of these Rules
These Prize Rules, which comprise both requirements and
recommendations, will regulate the competition in 2008/2009 for The Founders’
Sculpture Prize (hereafter “Prize”).
They are not intended to be unduly restrictive, but rather to make as
clear as possible at the outset of the competition both the expectations of the
Prize Committee and the obligations of competitors. If competitors are in any doubt about the
meaning of these Rules, they are asked to consult the Prize Administrator at
the earliest opportunity
Aims of the Prize
The aims of the Prize are:
·
To promote
excellence and imagination in the art of figurative sculpture using the human
form
·
To foster
figurative sculptors in the earlier stages of their careers, and to give them a
unique opportunity of creative freedom within a commission context
·
To encourage figurative
sculptors to use cast bronze, and to increase public interest in cast bronze
sculpture
·
To increase the
standard of technical skill in figurative sculpture
·
To find new and
meaningful expressions of the human figure in sculpture, and
·
To challenge
preconceptions about sculpture of the human form, and to stimulate public
interest in figurative sculpture
Prize Sponsors and Host
The Prize is sponsored by the following bodies:
The Worshipful Company of Founders
The Gilbert Bayes Trust
Morris Singer Art Founders
The Society of Portrait Sculptors
The Prize display will be hosted by the Guildhall Art Gallery in the
City of London
Eligibility of competitors
Applications for the Prize are invited from any figurative sculptors in
the early stages of their sculpting careers.
There are no restrictions on nationality, age or sculpting qualifications,
and the Prize Committee will look sympathetically at borderline
applicants. However, the Prize Committee
wishes the Prize to encourage up-and-coming sculptors in the early stages of
their careers, rather than those whose careers are already established, and
will not entertain submissions from competitors whose post-qualification
sculpting careers exceed ten years in aggregate.
The Prize benefits
The Prize consists of the following financial and other benefits:
·
There will be
five shortlisted finalists (hereafter “Finalists”)
·
Each Finalist
will be commissioned to make Finalist’s Maquette(s) and Drawing(s) (as described
below)
·
Each Finalist
will receive a Shortlisting Commission (as described below)
·
Each Finalist
will also receive the mentoring facility described below
·
The winner of the
Prize (hereafter “Winner”) will receive £5,000
·
The Winner will
be commissioned to make the Prize Sculpture (as defined below)
·
The Winner will
also receive the additional mentoring facility described below
·
All the
Finalists’ Maquettes and a bronze cast of the Prize Sculpture will be displayed
at the Guildhall Art Gallery for approximately three months from June until
August in 2009
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The
Initial Stage
Content of submissions by competitors
Competitors are required to submit:
·
Photographic
images (in not less than A5 and not more than A4 size format) of eight of their
recent works, each correctly captioned with title, dimensions, material and
date
·
A CV
·
A completed
Application Form (which is appended to these Rules)
Competitors may also submit, but without obligation so to do:
·
a 250-word
statement in English with their ideas about the inspiration of the human form
in the language of figurative sculpture
·
a stamped
addressed envelope fit for this purpose, if they require the return of their
photographic images upon the conclusion of the competition (images will only be
returned if accompanied by such an envelope)
Format of submissions
Submissions must be in hard copy format. Submissions by email or on CD will not be
accepted.
Timetable for Initial Stage
Submissions must be received by the Prize Administrator not later than 31
August 2008. Any submissions
received by the Prize Administrator after that date will not be
considered.
Submissions will be judged during September 2008, and the names of the
Finalists will be announced by the end of that month. The Prize Committee reserves the right to
alter that timetable, having regard to the diary availability of its members.
Judges
The judges will include representatives of the Prize sponsors and host.
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The
Finalists’ Stage
Number of Finalists
The number of Finalists will be five.
If for any reason any of the initial shortlisted Finalists withdraws
from the competition for the Prize, and if the Prize Committee so determines, a
replacement Finalist may be substituted by the Prize Committee, but the number
of Finalists will not exceed five
Finalists’ submissions
Each Finalist will be required to submit:
·
One or more
developmental and working drawing(s) made specifically for the Prize submission (not exceeding five in number and not greater than
A2 in size, but otherwise as determined by the Finalist) of a figurative
sculpture of the human form which fires the imagination of the Finalist and
which the Finalist, if he or she were to win the Prize, would like to make as the
Prize Sculpture (as defined below)
·
Not more than
three maquettes (of which one maquette, if two or more are submitted, must be
designated the principal maquette) made specifically for the Prize submission, in a reasonably durable medium determined by the Finalist,
but not exceeding one-third scale of the proposed Prize Sculpture (so that the maquette(s) will not exceed 350mm in
height), and
·
A short written
statement, explaining what the Finalist wishes to achieve with and/or by the
proposed Prize Sculpture and including any supporting factors which the Finalist
considers would help the Prize Committee in its consideration of the Finalist’s
submission (Finalists should bear in mind the oral interview mentioned below,
and are recommended to restrict any such written statement to approximately 250
words)
The Shortlisting Commission
Upon receipt by the Prize Administrator of all the documents and
artefacts required to be comprised in a submission, each Finalist will receive
£500.
Save for the mentoring assistance and interview travel allowance
mentioned below, no other payment or benefit will be made or afforded to Finalists,
except to the Winner
Mentoring
Finalists are not obliged to accept the mentoring assistance described
in this section. However, Finalists are
reminded of the aims of the Prize, and in particular of the elements of
challenge and innovation which the Prize seeks to promote. Finalists are therefore strongly recommended
to accept the offer of mentoring assistance.
Each Finalist – through the initial contact point of the Prize
Administrator – will be entitled to receive mentoring from a senior experienced
sculptor (by whom the Finalist has not previously been taught), with a view to
having one (1) artistic mentoring session in order to develop the Finalist’s
ideas and strengths and to explore areas perhaps not previously explored by the
Finalist. Mentoring guidelines will be
issued to both Finalist and mentor.
Timetable for Finalists’ submissions
Submissions (meaning complete submissions) must be received by
the Prize Administrator on or before 30 November 2008. Unless the prior written consent of the
Prize Administrator has been obtained, submissions received after that date
will not be considered by the Prize Committee.
The Prize Committee intends to consider submissions, to interview Finalists
in person, and to determine the Winner by 31 December 2008, but will
have regard to the diary availability of both its own members and the Finalists,
and reserves the right to postpone the date of determination of the Winner.
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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 Morris Singer Art Founders 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 three (3) months in 2009 after the creation of the Prize Cast by Morris
Singer Art Founders, 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 an d 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 Morris Singer Art Founders for casting not later
than the middle of March 2009. 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
5
Legal
and Insurance
Title, possession, copyright and further casts of the Prize
Sculpture
Title to, and possession of, the Prize Cast shall belong to and remain
with The Worshipful Company of Founders as the trustee of the Prize (hereafter
“the Trustee”).
The Trustee shall have indefinite licence to display the Prize Cast and
its precedent drawings and maquette(s), and to lend the Prize Cast, drawings
and maquette(s) to third parties for display, and to reproduce and distribute
photographic representations of the Prize Cast, drawings and maquette(s), in
each such case on a non-profit-making basis, without payment to the Winner and
otherwise in such manner as the Trustee shall determine in its absolute
discretion.
As between the Trustee and the Winner, the Winner shall be at liberty
to seek to procure, at his or her entire expense, not more than six (five
edition numbers
In all other respects, and subject to the foregoing limitations,
unrestricted copyright in the Prize Sculpture shall remain vested in the
Winner.
Title, possession and copyright of Winner’s drawings and
maquettes
The foregoing provisions relating to title, possession and copyright
shall also apply to the drawings and maquette(s) previously submitted by the
Winner, but in respect of the maquette(s) no casts shall be made
Insurance
Unless
otherwise agreed in writing by the Prize Administrator, the insurance of all
drawings and maquettes, and of the Prize Sculpture, the Prize Cast and any
related moulds, shall at all times remain the sole responsibility of the
relevant Finalists, and any loss or damage caused to any such artefacts by any
normal insurable risks shall be at the sole risk of the relevant Finalists
If
Morris Singer Art Founders (at its absolute discretion) shall agree in writing
to accept responsibility for the insurance of either or both of the Prize
Sculpture and the Prize Cast, the Winner acknowledges that any such insurance
shall be limited (a) in value to the cost of reinstatement of the relevant item
(and therefore shall exclude any greater artistic, intrinsic or other premium
value attributable thereto) and (b) in time to the period during which Morris
Singer Art Founders shall retain possession of the said artefacts (actual or
putative) for the casting contemplated by this Prize
Tax
All Prize sums will be paid gross (unless otherwise required by law),
to the intent that any tax payable thereon (including but not by way of
limitation any Value Added Tax) will be the responsibility of the recipient of
the payment
6 Miscellaneous
Website
The website for the Prize is at www.founderssculptureprize.org
, where these Rules are posted, as will be any announcements made during the
competition. Application forms for the
Prize may also be downloaded from the website.
Prize Administrator
The Prize Administrator and his contact details are:
Rupert Hill
Founders’ Sculpture Prize
Founders’ Hall
Number One
Cloth Fair
London EC1A 7JQ
T (+44) (0) 20 7587 0994
F (+44) (0) 20 7820 0482
E info@founderssculptureprize.org
Expenses
The Prize Committee will consider requests for the reimbursement of
reasonable and necessary travelling expenses incurred by Finalists in order to
attend the interviews mentioned above.
However, any such expenses must be approved in writing by the
Prize Administrator before they are incurred, and any claim for
reimbursement of any such approved expenses must be accompanied by adequate
receipts or other evidence of expenditure.
Supervision of casting
The Winner will be expected to supervise the casting of the Prize
Sculpture by Morris Singer Art Founders, in accordance with normal art foundry
good practice.
Final decision of Prize Committee and Administrator
Any decision of the Prize Committee or of the Prize Administrator, in
relation to any matter arising under these Rules, is final. Reasons will not be given for any such
decision, nor will the Prize Committee enter into any correspondence regarding
the merits of any submissions
Consultation of Prize Administrator
The Prize Administrator is available for consultation at any reasonable
time about the application of these Rules.
Implied acceptance of these Rules
Competitors making submissions for any stage of this competition will
be deemed thereby to have accepted these Rules.
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