How you can get your art transformed into a Wake The Tiger exhibition

How you can get your art transformed into a Wake The Tiger exhibition

Posted on: 20 Mar 2024

Beginning this Easter Holiday, Wake The Tiger are hosting a drawing competition linked to a new spring exhibition – with a chance to have your work included in the immersive experience.

Wake The Tiger is an immersive art maze experience – billing themselves as the world’s first Amazement Park (®, for what it’s worth) – that opened in 2022 to rave reviews. Since then, the Wake the Tiger team (also responsible for the hugely popular immersive festival Boomtown) have been hard at work delivering new updates and discoveries across the experience – including their recent massive Outerverse expansion.

Now, Wake The Tiger are marking the start of spring with plant pots sprouting around the Dream Factory (the main setting of the experience), each with a seedling growing within. Aligned with the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, each one represents one of the Four Guilds from the world of Meridia.

The seedlings will be on display from Wednesday 27 March to Sunday 19 May, and the immersive art experience is inviting families to take a peek at the seedlings – then create their own interpretive drawings of what they think they will bloom into.

Drawings must be submitted to Wake The Tiger between Wednesday 27 March – Sunday 14 April, and can be done so via their website here. The winners will be announced at the end of April, with a lucky few getting the exciting opportunity to have their work created into an art installation by Wake The Tiger’s in-house production team. It’s a great opportunity to see your work ‘grow’ beyond your wildest imagination!

 

 

Alongside Luke Mitchell, Founder and Creative Director at Wake The Tiger, the competition judges will be joined by George Cook from Avon Wildlife Trust, who will judge the competition and select the designs to be brought to life. “I’m here to spread the joy of nature and wildlife so I’m super excited to be asked to connect with Wake The Tiger and bring together our passions for the environment and art.” Cook said.

As well as bringing their imaginative-interpretation to life, the winners will also receive their names on a plaque and an annual membership to the experience. Once the winning drawings have been chosen, and the exhibitions based on them completed, visitors will be able to see the new plant exhibitions starting from Sunday 14 July.

Founder & Creative Director, Luke Mitchell, at Wake The Tiger, said: "We are super thrilled to invite aspiring artists to unleash their creativity and be part of Wake the Tiger's immersive world. Our drawing competition offers a unique opportunity for entrants to collaborate with our creative team, turning their visions into reality. The chance to see their artwork come to life within our experience is truly extraordinary and embodies the spirit of community and creativity that defines Wake the Tiger and Bristol at large.”

If you want to get involved with the competition, you can find out more about the competition and how to enter here, or head to WTT’s social media to find out more about the experience in general.

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Patrick Bate

Patrick is a filmmaker with so much Bristol in his blood the white blood cells are graffiti'd. Educated at the Northern Film School in Leeds, he’s returned home to be a Videographer and Reviewer for 365Bristol and BARBI. When he’s not messing about with cameras, he enjoys playing guitar, spending far too much time on tabletop RPGs, and being an awful snob about cider. Have a look at his work here, or get in touch at patrickb@365bristol.com.