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The 2025 Edition welcomes submissions from June 1st!
All ages & skills welcome!
Prizes include vouchers, art materials, seeds, books on art & gardening, and more!
How do I join in?
Get creative and draw, paint, collage, photograph, sketch, sculpt, knit, sew….use your fingers, use found objects, recycle, upcycle…Your creativity is limitless!
Deadline: 30th September!
Can anyone take part?
Yes! Anyone, anywhere, anyhow, schools, cities, refugee camps…this year, with our world facing many simultaneous and dangerous challenges that question the value of humans, we ask you to share your views of yourself and your world, to “unpeel” yourself” with this year’s theme:.
What does it mean to Be Human?
What does it mean to act in a way that represents the best of humanity? How can we share the most human parts of ourselves? What is beautiful, surprising, inspiring, joyful, wondrous, and ultimately important about being human?
Where can I get creative?
We encourage families, local groups and organisations to hold Appeeling Art making workshops, so we can open entries to anyone, anywhere – using images to share our hopes and dreams for a kinder, happier, healthier & more human world.
”Making my art stopped me thinking of the bombing outside
”I draw a pumpkin because it has good taste and you can eat in any season (Ash, age 4 )
”I always loved lemons and the first tattoo I did on myself was a lemon. “If life gives you lemons make lemonade”
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To celebrate the art & life of photographer Fatma Hassona – killed in a missile strike on her home this year – we invite submissions of photographs inspired by this year’s theme, “Be Human.”
Fatma was very human, and wrote a lot about art, life, and the joy of being on this earth, even in the face of terrible destruction. She especially loved Art.
And it was said, if you love something, seek it, and it will seek you.
I have a hidden reason for everything that unites art, starting from nature, to the paintbrush, and I believe that we are artists by nature, and that this nature of ours is what brings beauty to the eye of the beholder, but the one who tastes, is able to touch this art with his eyes, feel it, and even pass it on over time.
-Fatma Hassona
What moments, places, people, and things in your environment reveal what it means to be human? In a chaotic world, with unfair treatment of women and minorities, and violence and disasters forcing people to leave their homes on long and dangerous journeys, how can we present a more human mirror to ourselves?
No need to have a professional camera or any training – use your smartphone, or make your own camera with just a cardboard box and a needle 🙂
Watch the film about Fatma on August 28th at the Ciné Lumière. Book here
Start Now! Share your art and your story!
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Your creation must be no larger than an A4 piece of paper .
Can be paintings, drawings, photos, sketches, collages, sculptures, embroideries, knitting, NFTs, your creativity is limitless!
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Send your digital images via the form below before the 30th of September.
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The 3 top designs will receive prizes at the end of the event!
The competition culminates on the 19th of October at our Frieze Week art event.
Enter NOW!
Appeeling Art Competition
Appeeling Art is part of Karmabank’s mission to use creativity to increase our community’s health and happiness, and to listen to the people who know best how to make the world a better place for all: YOU.
More About The Competition
Appeeling Art started as a means to improve our community’s wellbeing through eating and growing more healthy food. The competition is held each year in partnership with a local community kitchen and foodbank, and during National Allotments Week, which includes allotment visits and opportunities to learn how to grow your own healthy food, and how to cook it well. We invite community partners such as supermarkets, local councils, garden centres and local health organisations to support us each year.
This year, we hope our new categories for Sustain, Community, and Me, will ‘unpeel’ the changes YOU would like to see in your communities, and what changes you hope for YOURSELF.
For questions contact: community@karmabank.co
To register for a Nourish Hub Cookery Course or a surplus supper, visit: https://www.nourishhub.org.uk/events/ or contact info@nourishhub.org.uk
Selected entries 2023
”Appeeling Art is a food art competition for Londoners, established by Karmabank with the Nourish Hub in 2023.
