Deadline: August 31, 2015
Un-established artists and designers stand a chance to
change their careers through financial support, recognition, mentorship and
guidance by entering the 2015 PPC Imaginarium Awards. After a successful inaugural
competition in 2014, the PPC Imaginarium Awards is back; and is still South
Africa’s richest arts and design competition.
Having evolved from the longstanding PPC Young Concrete
Sculptor Awards, the PPC Imaginarium encourages artists and designers to create
and express their abilities using Portland cement-based concrete as a primary
base or material. The competition will feature six disciplines in the arts and
design fields. These disciplines are sculpture, jewellery, architecture, film,
industrial design and fashion design.
Boasting prize money to the value of half a million rand,
each category winner stands a chance to win R50,000; while runner-up
contestants receive R15,000. The overall competition winner will receive the
grand prize of R100,000 at the winners’ exhibition in 2016.
The PPC Imaginarium Awards are open to South African
citizens, resident holders as well as foreign students with study permits, who
are not professionally established in their respective fields. Entries may be
submitted by individuals or team collaborations, and artists and designers may
enter multiple categories, with an original artwork for each category.
Entries close August 31, 2015.
The winners in each competition category will be announced on
February 4, 2016, and their work will be on display at YoungBlood Art Gallery
in Cape Town. The exhibition will form part of the popular Cape Town ‘First
Thursdays’ event. Thereafter the winning designs will be on display at the
Design Indaba in February 2016. The overall competition winner announcement
will take place at the University of Johannesburg in Auckland Park on March 31,
2016. All finalist entries will be professionally transported by Stuttafords
Van Lines.
Enter the PPC Imaginarium Awards before August 31, 2015, and
stand a chance to launch your career. For more information about the PPC
Imaginarium Awards, visit http://www.ppcimaginarium.co.za
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