Chaiya Art Awards 2023

Chaiya Art Awards, the UK’s biggest art awards illuminating spirituality with a top prize of £10,000, is back with a new theme for 2023 - Awe and Wonder.

The new theme ‘AWE and WONDER’ is open for submissions now and you can enter via the competition page here - https://chaiyaartawards.co.uk/competition/. The Winners exhibition will be taking place at the OXO gallery and The Bargehouse gallery 7-16 April 2023.

Check out my articles about Chaiya Art Awards here:

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• Chaiya Art Awards 2021 Gallery OXO
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Covid and the war in Ukraine has raised and continues to raise so many difficult questions. It breaks into our present and offers a horizon filled with pain and difficulty. But that is not the whole picture, the 3rd Chaiya Art Awards, the UK’s biggest art competition exploring and illuminating spirituality has launched its new theme AWE + WONDER and offers a top prize of £10,000.

This biennial theme based competition is open to visual artists of all faiths, to those with none and everyone in between. These awards invite submissions of painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, glass, textiles, mixed media, photography, video and installations in response to the theme, Awe and Wonder.

A prestigious judging panel: world renowned textile artist Kaffe Fassett; portraitist and President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Alastair Adams; International photographer Marcus Lyon; distinguished curator Dr Christo Kefalas; and multi-disciplinary artist and winner of Sky Arts ‘Landmark’ prize Favour Jonathan will be looking for originality and technical excellence, theme interpretation and emotional impact.

For the finalists Chaiya delivers a ten-day exhibition in central London. Owing to the success of the two previous awards, it will not only display work at London’s prestigious gallery@oxo, but also the huge Bargehouse alongside it. So more artists and bigger pieces can be seen by the thousands of visitors who come to the Winners Exhibitions. There will be a Press Night the eve before the opening to announce the winning artists.

The Chaiya Art Awards is not only passionate about elevating artists’ work into the public arena and encouraging emerging artists, it is also ardent about ending modern day slavery and trafficking. As a charity a percentage of all art work sold goes to UNSEEN UK. Full details on the competition: https://chaiyaartawards.co.uk

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of every day life.” ~ Pablo Picasso

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