The Scott Creative Arts Foundation (SCAF) holds an annual award for emerging artists based in Yorkshire. SCAF invites you to submit a proposal in response to this year's theme: TIME

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.

There will be 10 awards overall with the winning artist receiving £1250, 2nd £500, 3rd £250 and 7 further awards of £100 each to the remaining shortlisted artists.

SCAF will hold an exhibition and award ceremony at The Fire House, Thurston Road, Northallerton, DL6 2NA for the 10 finalists. 

A second exhibition will follow within the Yorkshire region to extend the reach of the finalists work.  

Finalists will have a permanent artist page on our website and will have other benefits including use of SCAF facilities.  

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 out 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

There are three stages 

• Draw up a proposal - using words and images to best describe the piece you would like to submit as the finished piece.

           (If you are successful in this stage you will receive an invite as a finalist)

Please note: This piece much be an original artwork created according to your proposal if you are shortlisted as a finalist.

•  Create the artwork you have proposed in stage one. (We will ask you to deliver the artwork to Northallerton)
• Judging of the final 10 pieces and the winner announced at the SCAF EAA 2025 exhibition on  24th July from 6pm.

Please have a look at our terms and conditions and for further information on our award and past finalists.

The SCAF EAA 2025 Judges 

Dr Sue Armstrong - Trustee and Artistic Director of the Scott Creative Arts Foundation

Jess Wallace - Artist/Sculptor

Louise Ventris - Artist and Winner of the SCAF Emerging Artist Award 2023 

Debbie Loane - Artist

Scott Creative Arts Foundation, The Art House, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, YO7 3AD

SCAF is a charity registered in England and Wales - Charity number 1168545.  

www.scottcreativeartsfoundation.org.uk