emerging artist award

The SCAF Emerging Artist Award has been created to acknowledge up and coming artists of all ages who are living in the Yorkshire region. The intent of the award is to bring recognition and awareness to outstanding visual artists in the region who are at the early stages of their career or who have not yet established a reputation as an artist amongst art curators, buyers and critics.

This years subject: Time

As you are reading the words that make up this paragraph, you are generously donating some of your time to SCAF. Time has a value to us, it is limited, it passes, and we can never regain the time that we have spent. We measure the passing of time, keeping diaries, celebrating birthdays and anniversaries, marking the changes of the seasons and the phases of the moon. Many of us run our lives constantly watching the clock, filling our calendars with time critical appointments and events planned for the future, fearing being late or feeling within us that we never have enough time.

Everything in the earthly physical realm is subject to change with the passage of time including the planet we inhabit, which had a beginning and will eventually die over a time course that is vastly different from that of a human life or a snowflake. Art has the power to transcend time. Artists throughout history have captured fleeting moments in time, represented events, people, places, and the nature of time itself in a myriad of different media and representative forms. What does TIME mean to you as an artist? How would you choose to represent this subject in your own piece of art? The subject is yours to ponder and interpret in your own unique way.