The Bernard Noble Sculpture Foundation has as its objective to support, encourage and promote young, emerging or unrepresented sculptors by means of a bi-annual (formerly annual) award or commission of an outdoor sculpture prize (the Noble Prize for Sculpture) to an artist for a sculpture to be acquired and exhibited by the Foundation.
The sculpture will be exhibited in the grounds of Colletta di Castelbianco in Liguria in Italy. The Foundation has undertaken to establish a sculpture park there in association with the Cultural Association of Colletta di Castelbianco. The park is open to public access in order to display sculptures acquired by the Foundation.
The Prize is for a minimum of £5,000. While the artist is responsible for the costs of the execution and realisation of the sculpture, the Foundation may chose to assist in defraying such costs, should a work be deemed very desirable or worthy but too expensive to manufacture.
The Foundation was established in 2008 and granted its first prize in May 2008. For more information on the competition and on eligibility rules, artists should click on The Prize.
The deadline for submissions is 5 February 2013.
"Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight - sunlight - is necessary to it and, for me, its best setting and complement is nature. I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape - almost any landscape - than in or on the most beautiful building I know." Henry Moore, 1951