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Submit your sculptural work for consideration in this annual mentoring and exhibition award for emerging sculptors.
Does this fit your work? 5 questions score every call to your medium, location and budget. Free.
Get matched →The Gilbert Bayes Award supports early-career sculptors through a year-long mentoring programme, exhibition, and networking opportunities. Named after Gilbert Bayes (1872–1953), a celebrated UK sculptor, the award is open to sculptors of any age or nationality, with or without formal training, working in any style or media.
Selected artists are expected to attend all mentoring sessions and actively participate. Three or more missed sessions will result in withdrawal from the programme.
Kate Davies, Director of the Roberts Institute of Art, brings over 20 years' experience in the visual arts sector working with artists, institutions, and philanthropic organisations. She specialises in developing ambitious artistic programmes and building collaborative partnerships.
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Previous sessions have covered: documenting sculpture with photography, contracts and legal information for artists, press and writing about art, how commercial galleries work, visits to archives and fabricators, arts council bid writing, public art, e-commerce and the arts, and professional artist practice.
Open to sculptors of any age or nationality, with or without formal training, working in any style or media, in early stages of their career.