Professor Ian Jack Prize for New Creative Work 2023
Submissions will open on 16 October, 2023
The Professor Ian Jack Prize for New Creative Work (formerly known as the Principal’s Prizes) will be open for submissions from 16 October, 2023.
The Professor Ian Jack Prize’s purpose is to foster the creation of original work, supporting and encouraging College artists from all disciplines. A total prize pool of $2,250 is available, with up to 5 awards being given across categories.
The Professor Ian Jack Prize welcomes submission from any creative artistic discipline, provided the work is your own original work. Examples of disciplines include, but are not limited to:
- painting
- creative prose
- poetry
- musical composition (sheet music and/or lyrics, accompanied by recording)
- photography
- sculpture
- multimedia
- scripts
- choreography (dance provided as video with description)
- spoken word
Link to the prompts for 2023 submissions can be found here
Submission criteria
- Submission due date – Sunday October 29, 2023
- All submissions must be the applicant’s original work. Applicants must sign an artist’s statement on submission, confirming the work has been created specifically for submission to the Professor Ian Jack Prize. Submission statements will be available on this site once the opening date has been confirmed.
- Submissions must be anonymous.
- Collaborations with multiple artists are permitted (provided all are students at College). If a prize is awarded to a collaborative work, note that the award is made to the work as whole, not the individual artists; any prize money it attracts must be split between the artists.
- Each year, one prompt (image, text or mixed media) will be provided by the Student Life Department. Artists must respond to the prompt, and submitted works must reference the prompt material, either explicitly or implicitly. Artists may choose to reference the prompt material implicitly or explicitly, and may choose to reference the prompt material as a whole, or focus on single aspects from it.
- Some quotation from pre-existing works (especially in dealing with the prompt material) may be necessary, but applicants should be mindful when using quotations that originality is a key criterion for success in the Prize.
- Artists can enter as many times as they like, but only with one submission per discipline. A separate application form must be completed for each submission.
- College may seek to purchase or publish work from any applicant, or to retain a work for temporary display, regardless of whether that work is awarded a prize.
- In the case of disciplines where submission of a recording is required (original music, choreography, or spoken word), performance standard will not be assessed, just the original work itself.
- Exclusions: non-fiction, essays, articles, performances of someone else’s work.
The panel can reserve the right not to award, or not to award to the full value of the prize pool.
Judging Criteria
A judging panel will be selected after receipt of submissions.