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The Sovereign Art Foundation is a charity registered in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom that raises money to help disadvantaged children using the arts as rehabilitation, education and therapy.〔Sovereign Art Foundation#cite note-0〕 The Foundation was established in 2003 and runs the annual Sovereign Asian〔Sovereign Art Foundation#cite note-1〕 and European〔Sovereign Art Foundation#cite note-2〕 Art Prizes and is launching the Sovereign African Art Prize this year. The Prizes are visual arts competitions that aim to give recognition to the region's most exciting contemporary artists. They initially focused on artists working in the medium of painting only but have since expanded to include other 2D mediums including photography, drawing, and print. They bring together the work of established artists and emerging talent. Howard Bilton, a tax lawyer who turned his art-collecting hobby into what is now Asia’s largest art prize, set up the Foundation. Bilton is also the chairman of the Sovereign Group. ==Procedure== The Sovereign Art Foundation invites a network of experts from throughout Europe, Asia and now Africa to nominate artists to participate in the Prizes. This critically driven process allows for the leading, mid-career contemporary artists to be showcased through the awards. The panel of expert judges then selects thirty artists from the nominated submissions to form the finalist shortlist. The short listed artists are then exhibited in a major public space. During the exhibition the final judging is performed live and the winner of the 25,000 Euro/US dollar first prize is announced. At the culmination of the exhibition there is a charity gala auction where the finalists’ works, excluding the first prize winner, are auctioned, with half the proceeds going to the Foundation, and the other half going back to the artist. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sovereign Art Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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