Calling all talented and emerging artists! You are invited to enter the prestigious Coffee Art Project competition, which helps to change lives in communities where coffee is grown.
The Coffee Art Project provides a great opportunity for you to gain high profile exposure and showcase your work to a vast new audience. At the same time you’ll be raising awareness and money for Project Waterfall, a charity working to end the global water crisis.
OVERVIEW
The Coffee Art Project is an international high-profile art competition aimed at showcasing the talents of emerging and established artists with work linked to the theme of coffee. As a non-profit initiative, the competition is funded by the generosity of our supporters and talented artists.
Winner of the The Coffee Art Project 2019 was Martynas Pekarska with "Square of Yirgacheffe 2019"
Runner-up: Robert Owen Bloomfield with "Dramatic expanse. (Long journey to the coffee hills)"
THE COMPETITION
You are invited to produce and submit a piece of original artwork that represents a creative, unique and personal connection to the theme of 'coffee' or ‘coffee culture’. The competition accepts work from individuals or on behalf of teams.
You are encouraged to be as free as possible in the expression of your artwork. The work submitted can be any form, including painting, drawings, photography, design, sculpture, and conceptual art, etc., providing that it has a justifiable conceptual link to 'coffee' or ‘coffee culture’.
In line with COVID safety, initial submission will be digital only. You will need to submit 1-2 high-resolution images of your artwork. The submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges with the top 30-40 artworks selected for exhibition at The London Coffee Festival 2021 (23 - 26 September).
To give yourself the best chance of winning and gaining maximum exposure, The Coffee Art Project suggests your artwork is framed or mounted, where possible, to ensure best presentation.
Runner-up: Renato E Tuzon with "My Coffee Grows Old with Me"
Visitor Award: Julia Dimitru with "Her espresso hair"
PRIZES
Winning artwork: £1,000
Two shortlisted runners-up: £500 each
London Coffee Festival Visitor’s Award: £250
THE COFFEE ART PROJECT MODEL
The Coffee Art Project aims to sell all exhibited artworks via private sales or auctions. By taking part in the competition you agree that:
50%* of the sale price goes to Project Waterfall, helping increase access to clean drinking water and sanitation for coffee growing communities
you receive 25% of the sale price; and
25% covers competition administrative costs.
*Artists may choose to donate their artwork to Project Waterfall instead, thereby giving 75% of the sale price to the charity with the remaining 25% covering competition administrative costs.
FURTHER EXHIBTION
As part of The Allegra Group, The Coffee Art Project is connected to UK Coffee Week. Through this connection artists who had their artwork exhibited at The London Coffee Festival, and didn’t sell, have the opportunity for their piece to be displayed, and available for purchase, in one of UK Coffee Week’s participating coffee shops during this year’s campaign (October 2021). If you are a business interested in this opportunity please let us know at hello@ukcoffeeweek.com.
Registration closes on Fri, Jul 23, '21 at 23:00 (BST). For more information and to enter visit The Coffee Art Project - London.
