In this episode of The Creative Kind, I chat to UK based artist Frances Featherstone on the realities of entering art prizes. We explore the opportunities prizes can open up, as well as the importance of keeping them in perspective.

Frances shares practical advice on choosing the right prizes for your work, how to photograph your submissions, and the hidden costs artists often forget to factor in. We also talk about how to handle rejection, what really happens once a show opens, and why believing in your work matters more than any shortlist.

Frances reminds us that prizes do have some great benefits and one of the big ones is the community built through participating in them.The connections they can help build and what that gives your practice in ways a prize never could on its own. 

Resources & Links

• Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 
• Green and Stone
• The Gallery Holt
• South East Open Studios
• Jackson’s Art Open Painting Prize

You can find Frances Featherstone’s website here and on instagram here

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