Saatchi Gallery/ Deutsche Bank Art Prize for Schools is one of the largest international competitions open to primary, secondary and sixth form schools from around the world, which are invited to submit their students' artworks. This year the competition is fierce, with over 22,000 entries from schools in 54 countries, including Australia, Columbia, Finland, Kenya, Indonesia, Mozambique, Serbia and the USA. The winners will be announced by Tiina Lee, Head of Global Markets, UK, Chief Operating Officer UK, Deutsche Bank, at an exclusive evening reception at the Saatchi Gallery on 3 March.
A high profile exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery will showcase artwork by the 20 shortlisted students from 3- 9 March 2016, and is free to the public.
Prizes:Overall winner: £10,000 to winning school, £2,000 to winning pupil
Secondary school winner (ages 11-18): £5,000 to school, £1,000 to pupil
Primary school winner (ages 4-11): £5,000 to school, £1,000 to pupil
An overall winner will be chosen from the two age category winners, meaning that one school has the opportunity to collect £15,000 for their art department. One successful student will receive £3,000, with another student collecting £ 1,000 to be spent on art and computer equipment.
The prize money provides school art departments with the ability to install state of the art computer and printing equipment and provide high quality art materials which allow pupils to explore, develop and realise their creative potential.
Saatchi Gallery/Deutsche Bank Art Prize for Schools is unique in its scope and accessibility, and is one of the largest international competitions open to primary, secondary and sixth form schools from around the world. Schools are invited to submit artwork by students between the ages of 4-18 years.
The Saatchi Gallery has a 30-year-long history of supporting emerging artists and bringing contemporary art to as wide an audience as possible. Saatchi Gallery/ Deutsche Bank Art Prize for Schools aims to support and encourage budding young artists by providing them with a platform to showcase their work, and giving them the confidence to continue studying art and to consider a creative career.
Deutsche Bank's support of the Prize is part of its
Born to Be youth engagement programme. Born to Be aims to break the cycle of youth unemployment through early intervention and is dedicated to helping the next generation fulfil their potential by raising aspirations, developing skills and providing access to opportunities.
The support of Deutsche Bank has enabled the Saatchi Gallery to offer tailored artist-led workshops to pupils from schools where the need is greatest. The workshops increase pupils' understanding of fine art processes and provide the opportunity to work with specialist art materials, helping pupils to explore and realise their creative potential. This year artist-led Continued Professional Development (CPD) workshops were introduced for art teachers from these schools. The workshops aim to support art teachers who are working with limited resources by providing space, time, solutions and ideas to approaching art making, and ultimately serve to open up the Schools Prize to students from all educational backgrounds.
'The Saatchi Gallery/ Deutsche Bank Art Prize for Schools brings together the Bank's passion for art with our commitment to enabling young people to fulfil their potential through our Born to Be programme. We are delighted to be supporting the prize and artist-led student workshops again in 2016 alongside the addition of CPD workshops for art teachers to encourage further creative learning across schools.'
Lareena Hilton, Global Head of Brand Communications & CSR.
The panel of judges this year includes Alistair Hicks, Senior Curator for Deutsche Bank; Nigel Hurst, CEO of the Saatchi Gallery; Jeremy Newton, CEO of Children & the Arts; Alastair Sooke, Art Critic and Broadcaster, The Telegraph and BBC and Julia Wachtel, Artist whose work is currently on display at the Saatchi Gallery as part of the exhibition
Champagne Life.
