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Forthcoming Event

Women's Design Service Safe - art competion

Women’s Design Service invites all women to submit entries for an art competition on the theme “safe”. We are looking for artwork, in any medium – painting, photography, sculpture - which expresses women’s feelings about safety in the built environment.

1st Prize £50 art materials voucher, 2nd prize £20 voucher & 3rd prize £10 voucher

Some ideas may come from thinking about streets or buildings which make you feel anxious or public spaces that are welcoming and make you feel secure. What makes the difference? Is it the lighting? The CCTV? The kinds of people? The advertisements? Stories you have read in the local paper? The layout of the streets?

In the first instance we are asking you to send photographs of your work to be uploaded in a gallery on our website. Please email them in JPEG format to Hannah at hcarty@wds.org.uk along with a completed entry form which you can download by clicking on this link. All entries will be exhibited on our website.

NB Closing date for entries is now Monday 22nd September 2008.

We will then be asking a panel of artists to choose 10 works to be exhibited at our UrbanBuzz event in the Octagon at Queen Mary University of London on October 2nd 2008. The three winners will then be announced.

If you are one of those 10 then we will be asking you to deliver the actual artworks to us by the end of September.