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The 2024 Edition is now Closed! Judges are judging...

About the Competition

2024 entries now featured on insta @karmabanklondon.

Entries accepted next June 1st, 2025.

Thanks for the beautiful art!

All ages & skills welcome!

Get creative and draw, paint, photograph, sketch, sculpt, knit (whatever style) your favourite fruits or vegetables! Your creativity is limitless!

Art & Food have been connected for centuries through classic Dutch still life paintings to Andy Warhol’s banana.

Who can enter?

We are a community art competition, featuring entries made by local community members from RBKC & boroughs adjacent . Since our first year, we also accepted entries from the Ukraine, where making art to send to us was a welcome distraction from the war. This year we had entries from kids from a school outside London, that supports underprivileged backgrounds, So we added prizes for an international section, and we included entries from outside our borough.

In 2024 we had over 45 entries from as far as Ukraine…

”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”

The prize-giving event for APPEELING ART 2024 was held at the Nourish Hub Surplus Supper.

This year we held five FREE ART-MAKING WORKSHOPS during Kensington & Chelsea Art Week, open to all, supported by the Nourish Hub, RBKC, the City Living Local Life fund, TimeGivers, Kensington & Chelsea Art Week, Open Art Market, World’s End Community Market, and Hot Stuff Studio Collective. We had over 100 participants, and over 80 entries! Below are some of the beautiful artworks.

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

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Start now! What is your favourite Fruit or Vegetable? 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 1st of August.

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The 3 top designs will receive prizes at the end of the event!

The competition culminates on the 9^th of August during National Allotments Week at a special community two-course supper and arts & crafts making event at the Nourish Hub Community Food Hub.

Enter NOW!

Appeeling Art is part of Karmabank & Nourish Hub’s missions to increase our community’s wellbeing, encourage eating healthy food, and growing food for self-sufficiency.

More About The Competition

Appeeling Art is held each year 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 join us each year.

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