A Cultural Olympiad project led by the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) is giving students around the country the opportunity to design artwork for next summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Creative Campus Initiative (CCI), a consortium of 11 universities across the South East, is co-ordinating a competition that will see 16 pieces of art grace the Main Press Centre which will be accessed by 20,000 accredited broadcasters from 200 countries during the Games.
The artworks will provide some of the very first impressions of the Olympic Park and of the Games themselves to the world’s media so Olympic organisers are looking to arts institutions to find imaginative proposals that will showcase the best of the UK’s young creative talent.
Professor Seymour Roworth-Stokes, UCA Pro Vice-Chancellor and Chair of the CCI Steering Group, said: ‘This really is a once in a lifetime opportunity for students and staff to be part of Olympic and Paralympic history.
“The chance to have artwork on the Olympic site as part of the Cultural Olympiad is truly amazing and inspirational. The Media Centre will be a major hub of activity for international press agencies and will form part of the backdrop for the Games and I’m delighted that the Creative Campus Initiative has been chosen to co-ordinate the project. It is a tremendous endorsement of higher education’s role in supporting this country’s world-class cultural and creative sector.”
The competition is open to any students on an undergraduate or postgraduate art degree in the UK.
The two-metre square designs must centre around one of the four Olympic mottos: Faster, Higher, Stronger & Spirit in Motion.
Entries should be emailed to info@podium.ac.uk by 5pm on 12 January 2012. The winners will be announced in February 2012 and will attend an exclusive unveiling at the Olympic Park next summer.
This competition to create artwork for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is run in partnership with Podium and the Creative Campus Initiative.
