International plastic artist Sebhan Adam launches an annual art prize to encourage creative talents

The international Syrian plastic artist, Sebhan Adam, launched his annual award, in its first session, under the title “The Golden Sheep” , targeting all art lovers, including amateurs and professional academics, in several age groups.

Regarding the award, SANA quoted  plastic artist Adam as saying: “The Golden Sheep Award”  has an independent and non-profitable character with the aim of achieving a general social and cultural benefit, and it will be personally funded every year in order to support and encourage creative talents.”

The award, which is aimed at all art lovers from the age of 15 years and over, comes according to Adam in difficult economic conditions, showing the will of the Syrian people to achieve success in the various fields of artistic creativity.

Artist Adam explained that the competition requires that each contestant submit two pictures of two artworks, one of which embodies his best artistic productions and the second represents his perception about the golden sheep as the title of the competition,  in order to ensure the originality of the first work by the artist Adam, the arbitrator for the award.

 Participants can present their artistic productions in the fields of drawing, sculpture, engraving, visual communication, photography, or any aesthetic creative proposal that fits the award, such as craft and applied arts and Arabic calligraphy with the complete freedom for the participants to complete their works  in the materials, sizes and ideas they want.

The total value of the prize is SYP30 million, distributed in two parts, each with a value of 15 million, distributed among 50 winners. The winners of the first section are selected by the award arbitrator, while the winners of the second section are chosen by the public vote on social media pages.

The application for the award starts from today until the 26th  of March 2021. The accepted works will be published periodically during this period on the artist Adam’s page on social media so that the public can view and vote for them,  then the names of the 100 prize winners will be announced on the 9th  of April. Next, the prizes will be awarded on the 16th   and 23rd  of the same month.

Regarding the title of the competition, Adam explained that he drew the word of the golden sheep and the value of the prize as well as holding it annually  from a dream that he saw and wanted to implement everything that was mentioned in it.

The plastic artist, Sebhan Adam, was born in Hasaka in 1973. He is considered one of the most prominent postmodern artists in the Arab world, with his innate style and strange  characters, as he learned art on his own without joining any art academy.

He set up many individual art exhibitions in the most prestigious Arab and international galleries, and his paintings are displayed in a number of the most important modern art museums in the world.

Amal Farhat