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The Converse/Dazed 2010 Emerging Artists Award
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The Converse/Dazed 2010 Emerging Artists Award is open to all artists under the age of 35 who are not represented by a gallery in the UK, and are British or UK-based. Entrants must not be students at university or art school. Artists are invited to submit their most innovative and interesting work for the judges’ consideration. There are no limitations on discipline. Video, sculpture, performance and sound entries are all welcome. There will be five shortlisted artists with one overall winner. These will selected on the basis of what the judges believe to be the best, most innovative, interesting, well produced and strongest work. The winner will receive a cash prize of £6,000 and each of the shortlisted artists £1,000. Both the shortlisted artists and the winner will both their entry and their portfolio of work exhibited at the renowned Stephen Friedman Gallery in London in July and August, 2010.
In order to enter you must submit a maximum of five images of your artwork, a CV and a one-page statement explaining the inspiration behind your entry. If submitting video or sound pieces, excerpts must be no longer than three minutes in length. Entrants will have their work judged by an expert panel of art-world insiders and the shortlisted and winning artists will be selected on what the judges believe to be the best, most innovative, interesting, well produced and strongest work.
All entries must adhere to the SUBMISSION GUIDELINES>>
Email your submission to converseart@dazedgroup.com
**SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECIEVED BY 1st MAY 2010**
All entries will be subject to the following TERMS AND CONDITIONS>>
Celebrating a year of creativity Converse presents their favourite new artists from around the world:
Sadie Coles worked with both international artist Jeff Koons and at London’s eminent Anthony d’offay Gallery before she started Sadie Coles HQ. She now represents many leading artists including Matthew Barney, Rudolf Stingel, Sarah Lucas, Jim Lambie and Gregor Schneider. 
Francesca Gavin, also Dazed’s visual arts editor, writes about art and culture for a wide variety of magazines including Another, Another Man, Blueprint, Art Review and Contemporary. She also contributes to various websites – The Guardian and BBC Collective included – and has published numerous books on art and style. 
Graduating from Central St Martins in 1995, artist Mark Titchner received rapid success, and was nominated for the highly sought-after Turner Prize in 2006. His work deals with society’s various systems of belief, which he dissects by juxtaposing text taken from sources as diverse as Nietzsche and marketing slogans, with subverted and distorted pop culture imagery. Titchner has exhibited all over the world and had solo shows at the Tate Britain, London, Baltic, Gateshead and Arnolfini, Bristol. 
Tom Morton is a writer, critic, and curator based in London. He is currently a curator at The Hayward Gallery, London, where he has recently organized exhibitions by Cyprien Gaillard, Matthew Darbyshire and the group show Deceitful Moon. He was previously curator at Cubitt Gallery, London. Morton has been Contributing Editor of Frieze magazine since 2003 and writes regularly for Bidoun and GQ Style. He is the author of numerous exhibition catalogue essays on artists including Roger Hiorns, Charles Avery, Erik van Lieshout, Pierre Huyghe, Glenn Brown, Andro Wekua, and Victor Man. Following his work as a curator on the 2006 Athens Biennale and 2008 Busan Biennale, he will co-curate the major survey exhibition British Art Show 7 in late 2010. 
Isobel Harbison is a recent graduate of the Goldsmith’s course in curating, and is now working as an independent curator and writer. She is the youngest member of the panel and brings a strong awareness of emerging artists and artwork. Her knowledge of what’s happening currently in the younger art world positions her well to spot talent that has as yet gone unnoticed.
TV presenter, writer and Director of Exhibitions at the White Cube, Tim Marlow is a central figure on the international art scene. Founding Tate Magazine in 1993, he has worked closely with countless leading contemporary artists, most notably London’s yBAs, with whom he holds close relationships. Marlow studied at London’s prestigious Courtauld Institute of Art and is a trained Art Historian, who has focused his Channel Five show Tim Marlow on... on many diverse artists, including Holbein, Gilbert & George, Kandinsky, Carvaggio and Carsten Holler. 
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