Breaking news: Selina Blow, Stephen Jones, Beatrix Ong, Mary Wing To and Emma Samms have already given us their support for the 2012 festival. Watch this space for more exciting announcements soon.
Our exhibition on now at the Rococo Gardens in celebration of their Snowdrop Time.
This year's festival is on Sunday 15 July 2012
Entry is now open. Cut-off date 1 June 2012. Here are some of the prizes to be won! Enter online here.
Themes are: Circus! Food for Thought, Rough Diamond, and Head Candy. For details, click here.
Entry Categories |
First Prize |
Second Prize |
Third Prize |
| Independent Artist/Designer | £1,000 | £500 | Voucher (£400) |
| Art College student | £300 + work placement | £150 + work Placement | Voucher |
| Open (over 18) | £500 | £250 | Voucher |
| Open (12-17) | £200 | £100 | Voucher |
| Open (under 12) | £100 | £50 | Voucher |
| Head Candy (over 18) | £300 | ||
| Head Candy (12-17) | £150 | ||
| Head Candy (under 12) | £75 |
See the winners of the 2011 Festival here
New! Watch a short video of the festival here:
Wearable Art Painswick Festival 2011 from WAP Festival on Vimeo.
The photographs you see on our site and Facebook are by All in the Image, of Cheltenham, who generously support Wearable Art Painswick. You can order PRINTS of many more photographs taken at the festival by clicking on this link.
Plenty more photographs on Facebook at facebook.com/WAPainswick
Click here to see the full programme for the day
Visit our Gallery page to see the images of this year's festival. Visit our online catalogue to see all the entrants and details about their costumes.
Wearable Art Painswick is an amazing free festival that takes place in the streets of the beautiful and iconic Cotswolds village of Painswick.
As well as the Wearable Art competition, there are high quality art and craft stalls, street performers and music, and lots of wonderful food and drink. Take a look at all the fabulous stalls that were set out through the streets of the village and in the Painswick Centre building.
The 2011competition themes were: Rococo, Déjà Vu, Dream Machine. And our special theme Bra-tastic.
The 2011 judging panel was: Selina Blow, Daniel Chadwick, Lulu Guinness, Stephen Jones, Savannah Miller, Beatrix Ong, Detmar Blow. Compere: Keith Allen. Prizes awarded by Grayson Perry.Flypast by the Red Arrows
photo by Trevor Radway
We support two charities through the Festival: Headway and Cotswold Care Hospice
You can become a Friend of WAP - take a look at the great benefits of being a friend, with the chance to win your own item of Wearable Art.
To see what Wearable Art is all about, look at our Gallery, or visit the WOW (Wearable Arts New Zealand) website.
Look at last year's entries on YouTube.