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Organization : British Council India
Competition Name : DoC Deck of Cards/Taash ke Patte Student Contest 2016
Applicable For : Students enrolled in an Arts degree from a recognised instituition in India only.
Competition Last Date : 11th March, 2016

Website : https://www.britishcouncil.in/programmes/arts/visual-art-and-museums/deck-cards-taash-ke-patte/doc-taash-ke-patte-student-contest
Contest Form :  https://www.contest.net.in/uploads/9901-form.docx

DoC Deck of Cards Contest :

Here is your chance to be a part of the unique exhibition, Deck of Cards | Taash ke Patte, currently on view at The Gallery, British Council, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi.

Related : British Council India Twelfth Night Writing Contest : www.contest.net.in/3694.html

The curator, Laura Williams is inviting entries for an interpretation of the playing card, the “Three of Clubs”, by means of a competition for art students from any recognised art institute in India. Students will have the same remit for the artwork as the senior artists. And the winning entry will be exhibited alongside an artwork work by Indian artists such as KG Sumbramanyan, Anjolie Ela Menon, Shilpa Gupta and Gigi Scaria, among many others.

About Deck of Cards | Taash ke Patte:
** In early 2016, fifty-four leading Indian artists were visited by Laura Williams, owner of UK Gallery Art 18/21 and curator of the exhibition in New Delhi. They were asked to make one artwork, in any medium, to represent a playing card they had selected from a pack of normal playing cards.

** The result is the extraordinary show, Deck of Cards | Taash ke Patte, currently on show at the British Council Gallery, in New Delhi. The exhibition comprises 54 artworks made by a group of India’s leading artists, and another set of artworks by 54 UK artists, which comprises images from a deck of playing cards.

Who can apply:
** The contest is strictly for students enrolled in an Arts degree from a recognised instituition in India only.

How to take part:
** Students can make the work in any medium, as long as it can be hung on a wall. The interpretation is entirely up to the artist – it can be abstract, sculptural, representational, narrative, graphic – but it needs to reference the “Three of Clubs”, even if the reference is not immediately obvious.
** Students are asked to sign the back of the work and not the front.
** All artworks must be 19cm x 14cm and if selected must be supplied for the exhibition as a framed piece measuring 36 x 30cm. The frame can be in any medium, shape and colour but must fit the specified size.
** Students should email a digital image of their artwork (in 300 dpi resolution) and the completed below submission form.
** Entries that are plagurised will be disqualified.
** Last date for receiving entries is Friday, 11th March.

After the Last Date:
** A shortlist of final 12 artworks will be announced later.
** The winning artwork will be announced at a later date and installed at the exhibition in the British Council.
** The winning student will be asked to give permission for their image to be printed by the buyer of Deck of Cards | Taash ke Patte for the production of a physical pack of cards. More details of this process will be shared later.
** The decision of the judges will be final and binding.
** The British Council will not entertain any requests for reasssesing entries.