National Emerging Art Prize

The brief

We worked with Michael Reid across many of their projects, including the National Emerging Art Prize. For its first run in 2021, the prize needed a system to manage the journey from artist submissions through to review, voting, exhibition and sales.

The work called for custom functionality on top of WordPress and WooCommerce, with private entries for assessment and an exhibition and sales setup for selected works.

What we did

• Built the submission process to collect artists’ entries and store them privately for review.
• Created multiple review stages so entries could move through the assessment process.
• Developed voting and exhibition functionality to support the prize.
• Extended WooCommerce to support artwork sales and commission payments to artists when their work sold.

These features connected the administration of the prize with the public exhibition and sales experience in one WordPress-based system.

The outcome

The National Emerging Art Prize first ran in 2021 and has run every year since. The custom functionality supported the process from collecting private entries to reviewing and exhibiting works, with artists receiving a commission on their sales.

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