Art Call: Best of Britain

The Best of Britain Art Call is LAUNCHED!

Calling all artists, photographers, illustrators, writers, animators, fashion designers, poets, the list goes on….all mediums are encouraged to design the artwork for a stamp, which explores the theme ‘Best of Britain’.

What comes to mind when you think of Britain? What stuck out from a visit to Great Britain? What do you imagine Britain is like?  What makes you British? What is the Best of Britain?

                       

(Photograph by Martin Parr)

Just create your own stamp artwork, the size of a postcard and send it through the post, to be included in the exhibition which celebrates Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation. Please see Submit Work for details.

Artwork received will be included in an online gallery, the exhibition and selected works will be published in a book.

Deadline 5th May 2012. Exhibition runs 25th May - 5th June 2012

Entry fee: the price of a stamp!

Winning entry will be featured on the front cover of the book, have a series of postcards printed, and printed on a sheet of stickers with stamps (smilers) printed by the Royal Mail. All artists names will be published on exhibition information.

See this list of ICONS for some inspiriation: ICONS of England this list which represents elements of England, from cricket, bad weather, morris dancing to the white cliffs of Dover, all of which have featured on official stamps! Or you can see the whole range of artwork ever to have appeared on stamps here: CollectGBstamps

                                   

Wondering how stamps relate to the Queen’s Jubilee see About the Project

Please contact laviniadrake@hotmail.com with any questions.