Entries to the 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize have closed, and the judging process is underway. We have received entries from all around the world, with artists from 85 different countries submitting their work!
Entries were received in various Traditional mediums across the fields of painting, drawing, collage, art dolls, installation, fibre art, embroidery and mixed media. We have received sculptures in multiple mediums including metal, wood, resin, clay, found objects and even chewed bubblegum! The Digital Art category has seen an array of digital painters, digital sculptors, digital 3D artists and photomanipulation artists enter. And last but not least, the Photography category provided the opportunity for fine art photographers from around the world to enter both their digital and analogue photography.
There are FAR too many entries that have blown us away! So many in fact, that we’ve created this additional blog. Read ahead to enjoy many more of the vibrant, poignant, and talented entries below.
While the Jury is deliberating…
We want to once again thank every single one of you that entered. Enjoy more of the amazing Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize entries that we have received across all Award Categories below.
TRANSCENDENT (Oil on Belgian linen)
Hades and Persephone (Oil and egg tempera on canvas)
Curwen & Woodward (Digital photograph)
Beginning of an adventure (Photomanipulation)
The forest phoenix bird (Floristic clay, air clay)
Susan (Cotton, jersey, wadding, sand, beans, thread)
In a thin voice (Digital photography)
Last survivor (Acrylic on canvas)
The Membrane Series: Guise (Oil on canvas)
Reach (Wood, metal)
The Necromancer (Digital painting & drawing)
GOLDEN RAIN – FLIGHT OF THE KOI (Digital painting & drawing)
MAYA (Oil on canvas)
Depression / Enslavement (digital photograph)
Dudaway (Czech glass seed beads, cabochons and chain glued to resin substrate)
Lunar Transit (Digital photograph)
English paperwall and cockatoos (Oil on canvas)
Venus (Watercolour)
Goddess Calm after the Storm (Digital photograph)
Sekhmet (Polymer clay, mixed media)
BigInner Piece (Bronze sculpture on walnut/onyx base)
Death Bed (Oil on cradled wood panel)
Mother Earth (Fired/earth-hand/painted ceramic)
Carmilla (Digital photograph). Model: Dae Joon
Strawberries in Winter (Paper clay, wire, fabric, oil paint)
Braiding Hair With Morning Glories (Acrylic Airbrush & Gouache on Wood Panel)
Blue Peacock (Digital photograph)
Cryptid (Digital photograph)
GELIDA (Digital Collage)
Transcendence (Digital photography). Model: Ariana
The Veiled Virgin (Iranian Onyx)
Firestarter (Oil on board)
Regenmacher (Rainmaker) (Oil on linen)
Her As A Young Man (Charcoal, ink, white chalk, acrylic paint on paper)
Jamoona (Watercolour on Paper)
Digital Dominance (acrylic, plastic, led lighting)
Budding (Graphite, white charcoal on toned paper)
Hoody (Digital photograph)
Feb.News (Acrylic on resin, antique TV case and LED light)
Vanity (Digital photograph)
Peaceful Reign (Digital)
A Force of Nature (Deer head taxidermy, epoxy clay, metal, paint)
The Infinity of Birth (Photomanipulation). Model: Raquel Suarez / MUA: Abi Lawrence
Ascending Into The Unknown (Oil on linen)
La otra Eva (the oder Eve) (Acrylic and oil on canvas)
Almost Alice (Oil on canvas)
New Beginning (Charcoal on paper)
Dusk (Acrylic paint on stretched canvas)
Ten of Wands (Digital painting & drawing)
The Mouth of the Southern Fish (Digital painting & drawing)
Dress-up (Gurney-Men) (Cast resin)
Metamorphosis (Plywood, liquid plastic, acrylic paint, tempera)
Abundance – Memento Vivere (Photomanipulation)
Cyclocosmia IX (Oil and pastel on linen)
The Lament of Medusa (Oil on linen)
Earth Nymph (Digital photograph)
Little Wolf (Digital painting & drawing)
The Dreamer (Oil on panel)
Psyche (Mixed media)
Fallen Fruit (Oil pencils and acryla-gouache on wood panel)
The rose and the nightingale (Watercolour and acrylics on watercolour paper)
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is administered by Australian based, international contemporary art magazine, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.
The 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize