Farley Arts Trust Awards & Exhibition
General Guidance
Application Process
- Schools are encouraged to register promptly to secure places for their students by completing the online application form.
- There is an £8 entry fee per student (only one artwork per student) which is payable on final completion of the application form. This can be paid through our online system or an invoice can be raised.
- You or your student will need to upload a high quality JPEG image of the art work - minimum resolution 300 dpi. The image must be suitable for judging, inclusion in the catalogue and publicity purposes.
- A short description (approximately 50 words) will need to be supplied - this must be written by the student about their art work, and will be used for judging, catalogue and publicity purposes.
- Final deadlines must be adhered to. We have always been able to accommodate works from every school that has registered but exhibiting space is limited so please apply ASAP.
- As Year 11 and 13 students may have left school by this deadline, schools will need to ensure all information for the forms and the photographs are handed over to teachers before the students leave.
All participating students who are accepted for the exhibition are regarded as Award winners and each student receives a certificate and catalogue. In addition prizes and awards are given in each category.
There are two further awards made for the best surrealist works in any of the categories. These winning artists are invited to have their work on public display in Farleys House alongside works by Roland Penrose, Lee Miller and other prominent artists.
A Sylvia Tidy Award will also be presented to a student submitting a work which demonstrates awareness of current issues of personal or community concern.
The judges will be looking for the following criteria. Success in just one or two points is enough as each one is an important attribute in its own right.
- Clarity of intention with imaginative and skilled use of medium, well edited and executed in regard to size and scale.
- An original or unique (individual) concept, successful in communication of an idea or experience or feeling.
- Ability to combine a concept (idea) with vision (imagination) with the medium (appropriate choice and use of materials).
- Work that aspires to be uncompromisingly honest, bold, perceptive, enlightening, challenging, expressive and capable of lifting the spirits.
Works are transported and exhibited at the schools’ and students’ own risk and Farley Arts Trust cannot be held responsible for any damage or loss incurred through the transportation or exhibition of works.
Licence to use photograph of submitted art work
By submitting an entry to the Farley Arts Trust Awards & Exhibition (FATA) project each student and teacher grants Farley Arts Trust (FAT) a non‑exclusive, worldwide, royalty‑free licence to use the submitted photograph of the student’s art work only for purposes connected with this competition including: judging entries; promoting FATA in catalogues, websites, social media, press releases and other media; keeping the images in perpetuity in a non‑commercial archive to record the event’s history.
This licence lasts for five years (and in perpetuity for archival purposes as above) from the date of submission. Students keep full ownership and copyright in their art works and photographs. The Farley Arts Trust (FAT) will always credit the artist by name when their work is shown or published by FAT wherever reasonably possible. Farley Arts Trust will not sell or licence the images to others, or use them for commercial purposes unrelated to FATA, unless the student gives written permission.
The organisers may issue announcements to the media regarding the awards and exhibition. The names of winners, along with the photographs submitted, may be used for publicity purposes.
Entrants acknowledge that once material has been published or shared with a third‑party it may not be possible to withdraw or remove it. Submission of an entry constitutes acceptance of these terms.