international batik competition

The International Year of Batik | 2024-25

Sponsored by the Batik Guild, the “International Year of Batik 2024-25” is an ambitious project aimed at furthering the goals of the Guild. It will be a year of concentrated effort to both publicise the Art of Batik globally and to bring it to the world’s attention as well as legitimising it as a difficult and valid art medium.

To that end, we have built an International Year of Batik website, a Batik Secretariat, to collect, collate and publicise all the Batik shows, exhibitions and workshops that will be held across the world in that year. It will feature the work of as many batik artists as possible and will be a forum for debate and discussion, It will post articles and videos about the art and its techniques and will publicise an International multi-category Competition which will be the spearhead of the whole campaign.

We invite all Batik artists to submit one high resolution jpeg of their Batik art (above 1 MB please) plus one detail jpeg in the following categories:

• Representational/Figurative Batik
• *Only those on fabric using dyes will be accepted
• Abstract Art Batik
• Traditional Batik
• Mixed Media Batik
• Apparel and Home Decor Batik
• Natural Dye Batik

Each piece of art should be titled with dimensions and the materials used.