Although I’ve been a professional artist for most of my adult life, variously as a painter, cartoonist and graphic designer, I only took up sculpture 6 years ago during the covid lockdowns. As someone without a track record in that particular medium, open art competitions provided the ideal place to test the waters [...]
We are delighted to announce that Claire Henley is our new Festival Artist in Residence for the next 2 years! Claire exhibited at artBEAT in the marquees over the first weekend of the festival, ran a very popular Coastal Flowers workshop for us and delivered a talk on 'How not to be a Starving Artist'! Claire [...]
Our 2025 Art Competition is now open for entries! Open to any artist, in any medium including painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics & glass. We have increased the prize pot, added new prize categories and have new judges on the panel. Categories & Prizes: - Main prize (any medium): £1,000 – sponsored by Wychavon District [...]
We are having a special Silver Day at the festival on Saturday 14th June, kindly sponsored by The Goldsmiths' Company, to include two talks on the subject of silver design at Cidermill Theatre in Chipping Campden. - ‘A Sterling Renaissance: British Silver Design from the 1950s to date’ by John Andrew Curator/Owner of the [...]
Prize pot of £1,250, with a new Wildlife prize category: - Best Portrait (£250) - Best Landscape (£250) - Best Wildlife (£250) - Best Photo Essay (5-8 images)(£500) The competition & prizes are generously sponsored by Photographer Peter Martin who has a gallery in Stow on the Wold and Creative Picture Framing Gloucestershire. We [...]
We are pleased to announce that 'Jump' by artist Lynn Edward won the annual art competition Visitors'Choice prize of £500 worth of framing from Period Frames London and an Overnight stay for two with dinner at James Martin's Grill at The Lygon Arms in Broadway. Over 1,500 visitors came through our doors during the [...]
2024 OPEN ART COMPETITION – Winners & Highly Commended We had a fantastic response with 580 entries from across the UK, thank you to all the artists who entered. The standard was exceptionally high. We are most grateful to our judges who did a brilliant job. A huge thank you to our prize sponsors, [...]
We are delighted to announce that Julian Lloyd Webber will be delivering the introductory talk for our concert by the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra on Sunday 13th October in Chipping Campden. Julian is a Patron for the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra and the Purcell School of Music, where our guest Cellist for Elgar's Cello Concerto Ella Harrison is [...]
Apply to be part of the Broadway Arts Festival 6-15 June 2025 Are you a performer, band, speaker, theatre company, artist or creative workshop leader who would like to be part of the 2025 festival programme? Do you have an event idea or proposal for our 2025 festival? We are in the early stages of [...]
We are excited to announce that Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath will be appearing at Cidermill Theatre for us in conversation with the BBC's Nick Owen on Sunday 23rd June 2024 at 6pm. Without Black Sabbath there wouldn’t be heavy metal, they defined an entire genre. Tony Iommi’s detuned guitar style and deep resonating [...]
As an Arts charity we would very much appreciate a donation to help us fund our outreach programmes with local schools and Arts bursaries for local university students - thank you
