Submission deadline: February 20, 2023
New Contemporaries welcomes submissions for the 2023 programme from emerging and early career artists who are final year students, recent graduates and postgraduate students from UK art schools and alternative learning programmes.
The selectors for 2023 are internationally-renowned artists Helen Cammock, Sunil Gupta and Heather Phillipson.
Being selected for the 2022 programme includes:
–Exhibiting as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023 at Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool and Camden Arts Centre, London.
–Participating in New Contemporaries Bridget Riley Artists’ Development Programme.
–Contributing to New Contemporaries public programme and the opportunity to present work on our online channels.
–Being eligible, as NC alumni, for studio bursaries, residencies, scholarships and other opportunities.
Since 1949 New Contemporaries has played a vital role in the UK’s contemporary art scene, with a wealth of established artists participating including post-war figures Frank Auerbach, Bruce Lacey and Paula Rego; pop artists Frank Bowling, Patrick Caulfield and David Hockney; new media pioneers Stuart Brisley, Helen Chadwick and Derek Jarman; YBAs Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili and Gillian Wearing; alongside contemporary figures such as Tacita Dean, Mark Leckey and Mona Hatoum. In the new millennium exceptional artists including Monster Chetwynd, Rachel Maclean, Haroon Mirza, Hardeep Pandhal, Laure Prouvost and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and more recently a new generation including Hardeep Pandhal, Joanna Piotrowska, Shen Xin and Imran Perretta have all been part of New Contemporaries. Sunil Gupta was included in NC 1983 and Heather Phillipson in NC 2008.
New Contemporaries is committed to inclusion and equal opportunities and encourages submissions from artists of all backgrounds, ages, genders, socio- economic backgrounds, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, and from those who identify as having disabilities.
Deadline for submissions: February 20, 2023.
For full guidelines, application procedures and final submissions, visit here.
