Calling all creatives! We have a great opportunity for you to be a part of our current project,
Fenland Lives and Land. The project is based around five community exhibitions exploring
the relationship people have had throughout time with this unique landscape.
We’d like you to have a go at creating your very own artwork inspired by the Fens. Your
work should be entered into one of our five categories (depending on your age – please
see below), which represent the five exhibitions of the project currently being produced
across the region. These are:
-
Tales of Fen People
Living on Land and Water
Shops, Pubs and Trades
River, Marsh and Mere
Early History of Fen People
- 5-10 yrs
- 11-18 yrs
- ADULT 18+
- ADULT 18+
- ADULT 18+
The artwork can be in any medium of your choice, from poetry to painting, photography to
textiles, sculpture to drawing, pottery to collage, and film to cartography!
All entries will be initially displayed online via our website. The winner of each category will
have their work displayed as part of the relevant Fenland Lives & Land exhibition, which will
tour throughout the region. Furthermore, the winner of each category will receive free
admission vouchers for Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service (NMAS) museums.
You can enter one piece per category and a short caption of no more 100 words explaining
the piece should be included. For example, a description of your techniques, your
inspiration or the subject matter.
CLOSING DATE: Midday on Friday 1St February 2013
Please bring or send in your entries to: Greater Fens Museum Partnership, King’s Lynn Town
Hall, 46 Queen Street, King’s Lynn, PE30 1HX.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ruth Farnan:
Tel: (01553) 669287
Mob: 07881 942374
Email: ruth.farnan@norfolk.gov.uk
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. The subject must be reasonably relevant to the Fens and the category into which it is entered.
2. Entrants can submit one piece per category. Entrants must adhere to the age* restrictions of
each category – please see above. *Age at competition closing date.
3. Entrants under the age of 18 years need to have parent or guardian consent to enter.
4. Each entry should be sent/given with a name, address, contact telephone number and a short
caption on a separate piece of paper. Entrants into any of the Young People’s categories must
also supply their age.
5. Entries will be exhibited in the state they are received.
6. Entries should be sent or brought into: Greater Fens Museum Partnership, King’s Lynn Town
Hall, 46 Queen Street, King’s Lynn, PE30 1HX.
7. The competition closes at midday on 1st February 2013.
8. All entries will be collectable shortly after the competition closing date, aside from the category
winners which will be collectable after the project has finished.
9. All entries will be judged by representatives from all Greater Fens Museum Partnership
museums and organisations.
10. The winner from each category will have their worked displayed in the exhibition (category) for
which they entered, which will also travel around GFMP museums. Furthermore, the winners
will receive free admission vouchers for Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service (NMAS)
museums.
11. All entries must be the original work of the entrant. The entrants must have obtained
permission of any people featured in the entries or their parents/guardians if children under 18
are featured.
12. Prior to submission, entrants must not have offered any of their entries for sale, been paid for
any publication of any of their entries or won or been a runner up in any other art competition
with any of their entries.
13. Entrants’ artwork may be used for publicity purposes.
14. By entering, entrants will be deemed to have agreed to these rules and the GFMP reserves the
right to exclude any entry from the competition at any time if the GFMP has reason to believe
that an entrant has breached these rules.
15. The GFMP reserves the right to cancel this competition or alter any of the rules at any point, if
deemed necessary in its opinion, and if circumstances arise outside of its control.