TAF Emerging Artist Award (South Asia)

Award Information

• The following cash prizes will be awarded-
  • 1st Prize- £1500
  • 2nd Prize- £1000
  • 3rd Prize- £500
• YOUNG ARTIST MENTION- 1 artist between the ages of 25-28 years will be announced as a special mention and will receive £250.
• A Residency for a month at the prestigious BSJW (The Borlase Smart John Wells) Trust, offering studio space for artist to work in Cornwall, England. The Porthmeor and Anchor studios are probably the oldest working artists’ studios in the country, and are best known for the internationally significant artists who have been based there. Previous artists have included Julius Olsson, Stanhope Forbes, Frances Hodgkins, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron, Francis Bacon, Terry Frost, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and John Wells, and more recently Rana Begum, Michael Dean, Nicholas Deshayes, Lubaina Himid, Richard Long, Katy Moran, Veronica Ryan, Daniel Sinsel and Caragh Thuring. The artist will be selected from the TAF shortlist after interviews in January/February 2025.
• Some shortlisted candidates will receive the opportunity for career mentorship delivered by one of the post-graduate students of the Master’s Degree programme taught by faculty of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. They will personally match each chosen artist with a Sotheby’s Art Business current student or recent graduate in collaboration with the faculty head of the MA Art Business in London. TAF will be co-ordinating the mentorship in close collaboration with Sotheby’s Institute.
• TAF promotes the shortlisted candidates throughout the year on its website and social media platforms and other publishing channels.

Eligibility Criteria

• The award is open to artists from the age of 25 to 45 years and under of South Asian origin i.e. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka and the diaspora.

Requirement 

• The artwork images should not be more than 18 MB in total size.
• Please make sure the submitted works for the art award have been executed in the last three years.
• Atleast 1 of the 3 submitted artworks must be available for a TAF exhibition as there is a possibility of a physical exhibition in India or London (TBC closer to time).
• The artists are free to choose any working media – Painting/Sculpture/Photography/Digital/New Media/Design.

For more information, visit The Arts Family.