The Call
for Entry for the fourth edition of the PPC Imaginarium Awards has officially
opened and the competition is inviting entries for its 2018 round. The 2017 awards
received an unprecedented total of 869 entries, from which 55 finalists were selected. On the back of this
success, the PPC Imaginarium is encouraging emerging creatives to enter the
country’s richest art and design competition, which offers R500,000 in prizes.
The
winner of each of the six categories will receive a cash prize of R50,000, with
runners-up walking away with R15,000 each. The overall winner will receive the
grand prize of R100,000 – that’s in addition to having won their respective
category prize.
Among
the finalists are KZN artists Zanele Vilakazi for her piece Alphga which won the Jewellery Category and
Mziwoxolo Makalima, the Overall Winner and Sculpture Category Winner, for his
piece Doubt-Queuing.
The PPC
Imaginarium Awards were established by PPC Ltd as a means to give emerging
designers and artists the opportunity to showcase their talent and creative
thinking by using Portland cement-based concrete as a primary base or material
across the competition’s six disciplines, namely, Architecture, Fashion, Film,
Industrial design, Jewellery and Sculpture. The competition is the most
supportive of its kind in the country and has seen many of its past entrants
and finalists go on to become recognised in the art and business community.
The 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. Artists and designers may enter multiple categories, with an
original artwork for each category, and may enter over again if they entered in
previous years. Entry registrations must be submitted online via the official
website, www.ppcimaginarium.co.za
Closing
date for entries are as follows:
-Film: October
31, 2017
-Sculpture,
Industrial Design, Fashion and Jewellery: December 1, 2017
-Architecture:
December 22, 2017.
National
judging and the 2018 winners announcement will take place in April 2018. The
winner and runner-up in the Architecture category will be announced in May
2018.
For information
on each category and to find out more about the competition, visit www.ppcimaginarium.co.za and click on the ‘categories’ tab.
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