The Art Writing Prize seeks to discover and celebrate innovative forms of art writing. The term ‘art writing’ refers to forms of writerly practice that hold a central concern with the condition and possible forms of art making. It therefore encompasses writing that is about art, essays, reviews, criticism, fiction, as well as writing as art, with submissions encouraged from artists, curators, art historians and critics, as well as others working across the cultural sector.
The scheme is particularly interested in submissions which demonstrate innovative or experimental approach to form and/or engages different modes of witnessing, activation, or inquiry, as well as writing which opens dialogues with different modes of viewing, making, and remembering that might help shift expectations of the experience we identify as art.
Grants are made exclusively to individuals as well as collaborative or collective practices that produce work as a single identity and are not formally incorporated as an organisation of any charitable or commercial nature.