Uploading Your Personal Details
You will be asked will to complete:
- Artist Name or Duo/Collective Name (all to be eligible);
- Phone Number(s);
- Work Collection Address in the UK;
- In no more than 100 words, how will this opportunity benefit your practice, for example your reason for applying to New Contemporaries.
Submissions Fee
There is a £25 submission fee. The fee is non-refundable and is to be paid through PayPal on the submission site. The fee directly funds the artist development programme which includes one-to-one mentoring for each selected artist, a fee for participating in the programme including travel and accommodation, access to a programme of workshops and networking opportunities and access support where required.
Uploading Documentation of Your Work
You can upload up to 3 media items/works. You may choose to submit 1 work which includes 3 forms of documentation or 'media items', including images, video and audio files. Or 3 works with 1 media item each.
Select which category below best suits your work and upload appropriate documentation ('media items') as image, video, and/or audio:
- Collage
- Drawing
- Installation
- Moving Image
- Painting
- Participatory
- Performance
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- Textile
- Sound
- Writing
- VR
- Web
- Other
Uploading Images
- Images must be JPG, PNG, GIF or SVG, and have a minimum height or width of 800px and no larger than 2MB and be in RGB mode.
- Please ensure that your images of high quality, well-lit and give a clear reflection of your work.
Uploading Video
- Please upload video directly (this could be moving image work or video documentation) to the submission site in MP4 format only.
- Video files should be no longer than 2 minutes and no larger than 100MB.
- Please edit longer works to a 2-minute excerpt, if you are shortlisted we will view the full work, please indicate if the video is an extract.
Uploading Audio
- Please upload audio directly to the submission site in MP3 format only.
- Audio files should be no longer than 2 minutes and no larger than 10MB.
- Please ensure the audio is less than 2 minutes long (this could be an extract of the full work, if shortlisted we will ask for the full work, please indicate if the audio is an extract).
Uploading Description
- Each work can be accompanied by a description of no more than 40 words which is more information on the materials and themes.
Completing your Submission
You will be invited to complete an optional Equal Opportunity Monitoring and Feedback Form.
Finally can view a preview of your full submission, check and tick the boxes before pressing Submit. Once you submit, no further changes can be made.
You will be then emailed a verification that your submission is completed.
