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Submitting my work to live briefs doesn't necessarily have to be things labelled as competitions.
It's simply an externally set brief - a challenge, something that may benefit my practice.
I've been thinking about where my work sits in the industry and how a lot of my work is about physical creations rather than traditional 2D illustrations. For some competitions, this may mean that my work stands out/is at least slightly intriguing, but I do feel like a lot of the competitions for D&AD/YCN are aimed at design rather than creation and I don't feel a connection with the tasks in that they're not what I hope to be doing after I leave university, so I've been looking for slightly more specific briefs that ask for puppet/doll/model-making/character design.
I also think that the industry I want to poke my little toes into is more about art dolls/puppetry and theatre/stop motion cinema, so I'm wondering if there is a better way into that than battling for a design trophy? It's more about getting my art and work OUT THERE, and I think I might have better chance with smaller competitions/submissions that are more specific to my interests.
Beautiful Bizarre magazine is a quarterly art, photography and sculpture magazine that showcases the artwork of unique artists across the globe: 'beautiful.bizarre is the place where the unique, the evocative, and the beautifully bizarre are celebrated and readers can discover a decadent alternative to mainstream art, culture and couture.'
It's a rather niche market, but I think that this alternative style content and tone better suits my form of model making than the consumerist values of making a logo etc.
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No set 'themes' or briefs but ANY work. Want it to be appropriate and relevant, so would need to study their previous issues. Start tagging instagram posts with '#beautifulbizarre' to see if they do like my work and reblog it in their submission sunday feature.
There's no prize or payment for submitting but it would give me a lot of exposure digitally and in print if my work was accepted. It would also be delightful to see my work published in a magazine like this.
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