Three have just announced an exciting new illustration competition to mark their re-branding.

Three will be using some of Ireland’s leading professional illustrators in their upcoming campaigns but they’re also supplementing that commitment with an exciting competition open to all but certainly appealing to young design & illustration professionals, recent graduates and students.

Each artist must respond to the simple brief http://www.three.ie/blankcanvas and upload their entry to the site.
All entries will be featured in a gallery style website along with all entrants contact details.

The first prize is 2000euro, an iPhone 4 on the Three network and your work on a limited edition iPhone 4 cover! Which seems to be enough of an incentive to enter to me but your work could also be featured in a future full campaign too. This is definitely one of those rare cases where entering will actually be good for your portfolio and your bank balance!
The three category winners will receive 500euro each and be featured in a launch event in a Dublin exhibition space coinciding with the announcement of the overall winner.

BRENB (that’s me!) will also act as a mentor for the winner, to assess their portfolio and to advise on how to further their career.

The judging panel will be made up of BRENB/Bren Byrne – Illustrator and director of The Small Print, Elaine Carey – Sales and Marketing Director for Three & Shay Madden – Creative Director with McCann Erickson.

You can visit the full competition site at http://www.three.ie/blankcanvas for details on the brief and how to enter.

Monster Truck Gallery in Temple Bar have issued an open invitation for illustrators and designers to submit proposals for future shows. Its a great space with really huge footfall.

Here are the details:

Monster Truck is a contemporary art space engaged with artists and creatives working in a variety of mediums. We are currently accepting proposals from artists and curators for consideration within the programming of our gallery at 4 Temple Bar.  These submissions will be considered to be ‘Independent Projects’ and together with our Curated Exhibitions will form our 2011 Monster Truck Programme.

We are particularly interested in artists/curators/groups including Illustrators and Designers that want to challenge their work in a gallery context and understand the gallery model as outlined in the link below.

Exhibitions will be subsidised and supported by Monster Truck but a rental fee will be required from the artists/group to help cover the costs of the gallery. For more detail on this model please see link. MT would also like to encourage groups or funded individuals to make proposals in order to manage your costs (please apply for project based grants from the City and Arts Councils).

To submit your work or project, please send submissions:
1) CV
2) Artists Biography,
3) Exhibition statement of intent
4)5/6 (jpegs, PDFs, etc.) good quality images/examples and/or Quicktime files of your work (on CD). With group proposals please submit an adequate number to represent the work of each individual artist.

Send by post to Submissions, Monster Truck Gallery, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland?
Deadline for submissions was Tuesday 16th of November but I’m sure you could squeeze it under their door with an apologetic wink if you go down quick!

Mail Me Art is back with the 2nd call for submission. Mail Me Art is run by Darren Di Lieto, the founder and co-editor of the illustration news portal the Little Chimp Society. Over the course of a year, the first Mail Me Art project brought together a vast collection of artistic work sent in the form of mail by both professional and amateur artists of all ages from across the world. A wide variety of media were used in an equally wide variety of styles and the work arrived on everything from postcards and envelopes to boxes and pieces of wood.

Contributions included work by internationally-renowned illustrators such as Dan May, Michael Slack, Jon Burgerman, Kristian Olson, Catalina Estrada and Jeff Miracola and in total there were in excess of 600 pieces of mail art submitted to the project.

Mail Me Art culminated in the publication of the book Mail Me Art: Going Postal with the World’s Best Illustrators and Designers and the exhibition, held in London during April 2009.

Bombhouse invites you to participate in bringing all the galleries, studios and visual artists in Dublin together under one roof. This exciting new project aims to exhibit work from as many artists as possible in the name of art creation and production.

The idea is simple. We send each group, whether they be a studio, collective or a group of artists we have put together, a different clue from an Irish Times cryptic crossword. Each artist in the group interprets this clue whatever way they wish. All we ask is that it is square in format and wall mountable.

To receive your clue RSVP to bombhouse@gmail.com

1.Name
2.Studio/Collective (if applicable)
3.Contact details

Deadline for submissions is June 18th.

For more information go here www.bombhouse.ie and also on Facebook