Sweet ‘Art Award 2025

Sweet ‘Art has a cosy new home after 12 years of success as an arts organisation giving opportunity to hundreds of artists that may be marginalised in the art world. The Art Bypass Gallery’s latest incarnation is in London E8 and we are now again hosting the Sweet Art Award! In honour of our overarching mission and values we will be holding an open entry award for any artist exploring any medium, theme or concept in their art practice. The panel will be particularly interested in artists that display both artistic merit and interest in challenging themselves to progress in their career and explore the fulness of their chosen media.

 

We would love to see artists that are able to site their artwork within wider contexts (whether that is socially, politically or within art historical discourse). The winner selected by our panel (that will include established artists, the Sweet Art team and our last award winner Carys Reilly), will be given the opportunity to exhibit a 2 week solo exhibition in the Art Bypass Gallery.

 

The exhibition will be fully curated, promoted and invigilated by appointment by the Sweet ‘Art team, along with our hosting of an opening private view to remember! The winner of the award will also be offered a portfolio review by the Sweet ‘Art team, and a blog post documenting their practice. The winners art works, selected for exhibition following an in person or online studio visit or portfolio review, will need to be available between the 25th February and 15th March 2025. Expenses for delivery or collection of unsold works will be the responsibility of the winning artist. The winning artist will need to be available for drop off and collection of unsold works and available to attend the private view event on the 27th February 2025. Work being available for sale during the exhibition run will be the decision of the winning artists and if works are for sale, Sweet Art will take no commission on sales but will take responsibility for facilitating the sales procedure.

 

Sweet ‘Art is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to the promotion of upcoming and established artists through exciting art events with a difference. We are an artist and curator led organisation and between us, as a team have years of experience and formal qualifications in art practice, curating, exhibiting, arts promotion and arts administration. Our work with artists to date has included large multimedia group exhibitions, solo exhibitions, performance art events, film festivals, makers fairs, arts publications and facilitating international collaborations. We always aim to provide an inclusive space for making, looking at, thinking about, and debating art.

 

How to Enter:

Please send a CV no longer than 1 side of A4, as a word document. This should contain the following information.

Name (first name, surname)

Artist name (if you go by something else to exhibit)

Gender. Ethnicity.

Current country and city of residence.

A short description of your current artistic practice.

A summary of your career (eg where you studied, any exhibitions you have been etc.

A link to either: your artist website, Instagram, or any other online portfolio (this could even be a cloud file-sharing system if you have no other online outlet). This is how we will look at and judge your body of work so please ensure that it is how you would want your work to be seen and judged in the first instance – that it is representative of your current output.

Email the CV to corrina@wearesweetart.com with the heading Solo Show. At the same time, please make a payment of £12 with your full name as the reference to us via BACS to

Account Name: Sweet ‘Art Ltd

Bank: TSB

Account No: 22959160

Sort code:30-98-14

No submissions will be considered without the entry fee. The award entry fee will go towards covering the exhibition costs. We may contact applicants after the deadline with follow up questions.

Deadline for submissions 20 January 2025 9am