Bloodstock Festival Offers Unique Art Opportunity

Bloodstock’s Rock And Metal Museum Gallery is a unique highlight of the Bloodstock Open Air festival experience, where festival founder Paul Gregory showcases selections from his remarkable body of work as an internationally renowned fantasy fine artist.

Every year, Paul also curates a selection from other Heavy-Metal-friendly artists and creatives, both established and new, who’ve caught his eye across the previous 12 months.

In 2021, Paul wants to give a chance to artistic newcomers to win the opportunity to hang a piece of their work.

To enter you need to design and create your own piece of artwork, based around and inspired by one of the bands performing at Bloodstock 2021. Upon completion of the artwork, you need to submit a hi-res image of your artwork, as well as a photo of yourself either holding or (if it’s big) standing next to your artwork. Please keep image sizes below 2MB each.

• Be original – don’t copy the style of the band’s previous album art.
• Choose the title of a song on any album the band has in their catalogue and theme the artwork to the song title.
• You can use any medium; acrylics, pastel, oil on canvas, watercolour, drawing, digitally-created, etc.
• Submit the lyrics of the song alongside your artwork.
• Deadline for submissions is 11.59pm, 31st Jan 2021, emailed to [email protected].
• Winners will be contacted directly and also announced on Bloodstock’s web platforms on 28th Feb 2021.

Paul will jointly judge the competition alongside friend and fellow artist, Mark Wilkinson (illustrator of album sleeves for Marillion, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, The Darkness) and the winner will have their work professionally framed, lit and hung in the RAM Gallery on site August 2021.