The competition aims to provide a platform to discover, develop and celebrate young talents in Visual Arts. Besides vouchers to be won, all 30 finalists will have their works shared with a wider audience at a public exhibition held at SOTA.

You are eligible to apply as long as you are in Primary 5 in 2024 and will be in Primary 6 (or the equivalent of) in 2025. You must also be currently based in Singapore.

Yes, you may apply as long as you are in Primary 5 in 2024 and will be in Primary 6 (or the equivalent of) in 2025. You must also be currently based in Singapore.

Yes, you may apply as long as you are based in Singapore and are in Primary 5 in 2024 and will be in Primary 6 (or the equivalent of) in 2025.

Yes, you may apply as long as you are based in Singapore and are in Primary 5 in 2024 and will be in Primary 6 (or the equivalent of) in 2025.

An A4-sized paper, pencil and eraser will be provided for all participants.

Yes, you may bring your own materials, but you are only allowed to use dry mediums, such as pencil, coloured pen, ink, markers, crayon, oil pastels or chalk during the competition. Dry mediums may also be combined and used in the artwork. No wet mediums (watercolour, acrylic, oil paints or gouache), as well as printmaking, relief or collage artwork will be allowed or accepted. SOTA reserves the right to disqualify entries using wet mediums.

The competition will be held on Saturday, 15 February 2025.

Participants may register on their own here. There is no requirement to register through the participants’ primary school or art teacher.

Unfortunately, registration for the competition will close once 500 participants have been registered. The competition will not accept registration or any form of appeal beyond that. We regret that we will not respond to appeals.

The judges of this competition will be members from SOTA. We are looking for an original work that displays the voice of the artist, his/her creativity as well as the technical ability in the selected artistic medium.

Your work will be judged based on your creativity and technical ability. We would like to see original pieces of works that display the voice of the artist.

30 finalists will be selected and notified via email by Friday, 14 March 2025. The names of the finalists will also be announced on the competition webpage. Thereafter, 10 overall winners will be selected from these finalists, and results will be released online before the exhibition on Saturday, 5 April 2025.

We regret that non-finalists will not be notified and we will not respond to appeals.

Your submitted artwork must feature elements that have been created by you and not copied from any existing artworks that can be found in person or online. Copying someone else’s artwork and modifying parts of it without giving credit to them is an act known as plagiarism. Plagiarism is a serious offence and violates the competition rules as it amounts to stealing someone else’s work and passing it off as your own. SOTA reserves the right to disqualify entries that have been plagiarised both during and after the competition.

There will be 30 finalists. From the 30 finalists, we will select 10 overall winners.

All 30 finalists will receive vouchers and an opportunity to showcase their work.

No, this is not a platform of selection or entry into SOTA. Admission to SOTA is only via the Talent Academy, an annual selection platform that includes group activities, online questionnaires, audition or portfolio presentations, and interviews. Find out more about Talent Academy here. This competition is solely for encouraging art-making interest in Singapore and to nurture young talents.

No, you are only allowed to submit ONE (1) entry per participant, as per your birth certificate or passport number.

After the exhibition has ended, you may collect your winning artwork from Fri to Sat, 11-13 April 2025 at the SOTA Level 2 Security Desk from 10am-5pm. Any winning artworks not collected by 13 April 2025 shall become the property of SOTA and may be retained, utilised, or otherwise disposed of in whatever way SOTA deems fit.