A custom built entry system for arts organisations to maximise the success of creative opportunities. ArtOpps is user friendly for artists, selectors and administrators and enables unique access to an extensive creative community.

Opportunity Home Page

Logged in and on the OVERVIEW Tab, which allows a user to check the progress of their application.

Logged in and on the MY WORKS tab, where a user may upload and credit their images.

Logged in and on the STATEMENTS Tab, where a user may upload their CV and compose their Artist Statement.

Customise

The flexibility of the portal allows clients to create a bespoke entry structure - which can be edited at any point, and at no cost - to suit both project and audience.

Brand

From the creation of a dedicated URL to the integration of brand-specific logos, fonts and images, ArtOpps allows clients to build individual opportunity pages which reflect and promote existing visual identity.

Submit

With a user-friendly interface that is simple and straightforward to navigate, ArtOpps allows users to submit artwork quickly and easily. Rules and Guidelines, FAQs and selection panel profiles are clearly displayed and downloadable content such as entry forms, labels and submission timetables is easily accessible.

Edit

A user's application will remain live until the moment that the deadline passes, allowing them to add content and make changes at any point throughout the call for entries period.

Vote

When a competition moves into the judging phase, the judging side of the portal comes into play. An unlimited number of selectors may use the portal at any one time, images/media are displayed clearly and accompanied by any information relevant to a submission, and there is also a facility to anonymise the entrants. A selector may review their choices at any point during the judging process.

Download

The portal allows for all content - for example personal data and image files - to be downloaded quickly and easily into a format that is easy to access and navigate.

Analyse

Statistics are available both throughout and subsequent to the call for entries period, providing data which can be used to direct/dictate press and marketing campaigns. Furthermore, the bespoke nature of the portal allows the client to control both the type and quantity - and therefore the value - of the data that is collected.

Support

The ArtOpps Community

ArtOpps is home to many leading creative opportunities benefitting from being part of a national and international artists’ community spanning all disciplines.

Our Marketing

As well as project managing your artist opportunity, Parker Harris can create and deliver effective press and marketing campaigns to increase awareness of your open call as well as extend and diversify audience reach. With a database of over 24,000 artists and art professionals from across the UK, we are able to create targeted and tightly-focussed campaigns which yield direct and quantifiable results.

Client testimonials

Sarah Williams, Head of Programme, Jerwood Visual Arts Selector: JVA Artist Bursaries, 3-Phase and Jerwood Makers Open

ArtOpps is an efficient way of reviewing text-based proposals, image, video and sound content from a large quantity of submissions and can be used by multiple reviewers at once. Submissions can be rated in a way that makes the decision-making process much easier. I would highly recommend it as a platform.

Christopher Green, Artist First Prize Winner 2017: Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize

I have always found the process of entering prizes run via ArtOpps very straightforward and unproblematic. The practical arrangements are well organised, with good, helpful communication from start to finish.

Lisa Meaney, Producer, MK50 Celebrations - The Canal & River Trust MK50 Canal Residency

Parker Harris provided a bespoke site for our artist selection process, were excellent at responding to any queries and very nice people to work with! The ArtOpps site made the selection process extremely efficient and democratic, saving hours of my time as project manager. I would definitely recommend!

Neville Gabie, artist Selector: Jerwood Open Forest and MK50 Canal Residency

As a selector on two different occasions and responding on both to very large applications, ArtOpps proved to be excellent. It allowed very easy online access and the ability to rate each application in a straightforward manner. It was simple to return to the task of selection as often as I needed with the ability to look at images, sound, video, text and CVs with incredible ease as well as to review my evaluations. When it came to sharing and comparing with the rest of the selection panel, this common resource really helped save time and made the whole process efficient, democratic and transparent. I cannot imagine a better means of selection.

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THE DERWENT ART PRIZE

An international Prize for works created in pencil - including water-soluble, pastel, graphite, charcoal or coloured pencils - that may be either 2D or 3D, but that do not exceed 182cm in their largest dimension.

Sandra Crisp, Remote City (SKYGARDENS_TOWERS)

THE LONDON GROUP OPEN

A unique opportunity for visual artists to raise their profile by exhibiting alongside members of the UK's longest-running artists' co-operative.

Paul Brandford, Untitled, Bursary XII

THE DISCERNING EYE DRAWING BURSARY

An opportunity for five artists to have their work shown as part of the annual ING Discerning Eye Exhibition. In addition to this, one artist will receive £1,500; the remaining four will each receive £150.

Parra, International Print Biennale Poster, IPB 2016. Image: Anna Arca

INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNALE PRINT AWARDS

Showcasing the broad spectrum of contemporary printmaking across the globe, the IPB Print Awards welcome work created through both traditional and contemporary print processes, including 2D, 3D, video, installation and site-specific work.

Jessica Harrison, 54 Pins, 44 Followers, 2017. Commissioned for Jerwood Makers Open 2017, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Image: Anna Arca

JERWOOD MAKERS OPEN

An exceptional supported opportunity for makers and collaborators across all disciplines. Five awards, each worth £7,500, will be awarded to artists who need the opportunity, time, curatorial advice and logistical back up to develop their ideas and further their practice.

Keith Harrison's 'Joyride', a Jerwood Open Forest Commission. Photo © Hydar Dewachi

JERWOOD OPEN FOREST

A call for bold, broad-thinking proposals that explore the potential of forests as sites for art. The Commission is worth £30,000 and proposals can be for work in any discipline or medium, temporary or permanent, site-specific or for touring to more than one location.

Lydia Ourahmane, 'All the way up to the Heavens and down to the depths of Hell', 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist.

JERWOOD VISUAL ARTS ARTIST BURSARIES

An opportunity for visual artists who are within ten years of graduating or establishing their practice. Twelve bursaries, each worth £1,000, are available to artists seeking to experiment as well as define and determine their own developmental needs.

Patrick Blower, Sketchbook Page, SKETCH Open 2017

SKETCH

An open sketchbook drawing prize which champions the importance and diversity of drawing by exploring the role of the sketchbook in contemporary fine art practice.

Nicholas Archer, In Shadows, Lynn Painter-Stainers 2018

THE LYNN PAINTER-STAINERS PRIZE

The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize was created in 2005 by the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and the Lynn Foundation to encourage the very best creative representational painting and promote the skill of draughtsmanship. With prize money of £35,000, the Prize is one of the most prestigious awards to artists throughout the UK.

Lara Cobden, Liminal Space – Part I (2018)

Wells Art Contemporary

The WAC Awards is an open competition for contemporary visual art that is gaining praise and respect in Britain and abroad. It was established in 2012 by a group of artists and their friends in Wells, the beautiful cathedral city in the South-West of England. But an idea that came to life around kitchen and dining tables has already established a strong presence in the London art world and is drawing artists from places as diverse as Australia, Azerbaijan, India, Italy, Korea, Japan and the United States, as well as all over Britain.

Camilla Dowse, 'Yellow Door in Chelsea', shortlisted 2017

The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition

Now in its 31st year, The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is the largest and most prestigious prize for contemporary watercolour painting in the UK. Whether it be through abstract or figurative, contemporary or traditional, the competition aims to celebrate and redefine the beauty and diversity of watercolour and water-based media. Open to all UK-based artists, the competition offers a generous range of prizes including a First Prize of £6000, Second Prize of £3000 and Third Prize of £1000.

Christian Aslund, 'Chinstrap Penguin resting at Spigot Peak, the Antarctic Peninsula' (2018)

EARTH PHOTO

Photographers, both amateur and professional, are invited to submit up to ten photographs or films to Earth Photo, an international photography competition and exhibition. Developed jointly by Forestry Commission England and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Earth Photo aims to stimulate conversations about our world, its inhabitants and our treatment of both.

Lorna May Wadsworth, Sea Scout I

ING Discerning Eye

The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition has established an outstanding reputation among artists, collectors and enthusiasts for its unique curatorial approach. ING has proudly supported the exhibition for 20 years, which provides, a rare opportunity for works by lesser-known artists to be hung alongside contributions from internationally recognised names. The selected works will be shown in an exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London from Thursday 15 November - Sunday 25 November 2018. Artists are invited to submit up to six works in a variety of media: painting, print, sculptures, drawing and photography are all accepted. These works must be for sale, and should not exceed 20” (50 cm) in their largest dimension. Initial entry is by optional online registration, though artists who prefer not to register online beforehand may still enter and hand in their works at a regional submission point.

Flow Photo

Photographers, both amateur and professional, are invited to submit up to four photographs or films for the inaugural edition of Flow Photo. The national photography competition and exhibition, developed by Future Water Association and supported by the Canal & River Trust, aims to raise awareness and encourage debate about water and waterways in all aspects as seen through the photographer and film-maker’s lens.

Bryony Marshall MRSS, Layers of Bournemouth

Royal Society of Sculptors – Gilbert Bayes Award

The Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors (previously the Bursary Awards) is given annually by the Society to a small group of outstandingly talented sculptors. Selected by the sculptor members of the Society’s Board, the award provides vital support during what can be a difficult transition from study to professional practice. The award is open to sculptors of any age or nationality, with or without formal training and working in any style of media.

Women Make Sculpture

The inaugural Women Make Sculpture: theCoLAB Commission will award a female sculptor £15,000 towards the research, development and making of work(s) to be exhibited at one of three possible outdoor sites on the University College London (UCL)’s Bloomsbury Campus from mid-October 2019. The brief is open as to material, narrative and theme but the work must demonstrate an interest in making and materials or be inspired by the context for the work. The award is open to professional women artists of any age working primarily in three dimensions, who are living and working in the UK

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCULPTORS – FIRST PLINTH: PUBLIC ART AWARD 2019

First Plinth: Public Art Award 2019 is designed to offer sculptors an opportunity to extend their practice into competing for public art commissions. The winning sculptor is awarded £10,000 to produce a large-scale sculpture for the sculpture terrace at Dora House before moving to a second site at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The award theme is Progress.

THERMAE BATH SPA COMMISSION

Thermae Bath Spa is offering a £7,500 commission to produce 9 works which will be installed in the busy restaurant in June 2019. Thermae welcomes approximately 285,000 visitors through the building per year. Thermae are looking for work that is inspired by the natural thermal waters and promotes holistic wellbeing.

TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE

Selected from original drawings, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation for promoting, celebrating, and championing excellence in contemporary drawing practice through this open exhibition dedicated to drawing. Led by founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor of Bath School of Art & Design at Bath Spa University, the exhibition will include around 65 drawings selected by a panel of distinguished selectors and will tour nationally from September 2019 to July 2020.

THE WESTMORLAND LANDSCAPE PRIZE

The Westmorland Landscape Prize is a national call to artists who are inspired by our landscape. Conceived and developed by Westmorland, the Prize aims to document, celebrate and interrogate our relationship with the landscape. The selection panel will be looking for works which reach beyond the aesthetic, stimulating thinking and debate about the way in which we exist alongside, as part of, or sometimes in spite of our landscape.

Grizedale Residency

This new opportunity based at Grizedale Forest is an annual intensive six week long residency that fosters experimentation and innovation in response to the natural environment. A Royal Society of Sculptors member will be paired with an early-career sculptor (2nd/ 3rd year student or post graduate from universities based in the North West) to explore how creative ideas can evolve and how new ideas and innovative thinking can cross generations of artistic practice. The residency will run from 2 August – 13 September 2019 inclusively.

Jade Chorkularb, One day I will stop crying

Wells Art Contemporary – Installation Proposals

The Wells Art Contemporary Open will be held at the magnificent Wells Cathedral between July 20th and August 11th 2019. For the first time we are offering a remarkable opportunity for proposals for fine art interventions, installed in up to 8 specific sites within the Cathedral. Individual or collaborative proposals can be made.

Bath Society of Artists

The Competition is open to all living British and international artists over the age of 18 years old on 1st March 2019.

Dominic Tschudin

Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre

Hippodrome 120 Sculpture Commission As part of the celebrations for their 120th year, Birmingham Hippodrome is working in partnership with PSC to commission a temporary, site-specific sculpture for a void space in their four-storey foyer, around which the building’s primary public staircase ascends. Footfall in the foyer exceeds half a million visitors each year.

Fred Uhlman, Welsh Farm / Photo: City & County of Swansea: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Collection / © The Artist’s Estate / Bridgeman Images

Wales Contemporary / Cymru Gyfoes

Wales Contemporary / Cymru Gyfoes is an international open competition for 2D artwork in any medium excluding photography. Developed by the Waterfront Gallery in association with the Welsh Government, Wales Contemporary seeks to celebrate all aspects of the country by inviting artists to submit work that is inspired by its ancient history, its art history, its heritage, its landscape (rural, urban or political) and its contemporary culture.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCULPTORS – GILBERT BAYES AWARD

The Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors is given annually by the Society to a small group of outstandingly talented sculptors. Selected by the sculptor members of the Society’s Board and guest judge Brian Griffiths, the award provides vital support during what can be a difficult transition from study to professional practice. The award is open to sculptors of any age or nationality, with or without formal training and working in any style of media.