• Be a member of the website. Join here

• Upload between one and five photos of your artwork in JPEG format (Click 'Upload Work'). Try to keep the width 1024 pixels or less.

• Select an artwork previously uploaded onto this site of any medium and your close ups will be included.

• Professional members can enter up to 5 art works at no cost.

• If you are not a professional member of the web site you will need to pay £10 per item which will go toward the prize money.

• Write a short description about your work, the materials that you used, the dimensions and why you did it in 300 words or less in the description box (Click "Gallery", click your artwork, click "Edit"). Also include a bit about yourself.

• The prize is £300 and life membership (worth £300)

• Due to a large volume of last minute applications (and Peter going to a party at Movida on the 30th) we will be accepting competition entries until 9:00 on 2 December 2011.

• 2010 Competition
• 2009 Competition

Mila Askarova is the founder and director of Gazelli Art House a commercial art organisation providing a new setting for the creation of contemporary art and delivering the message of the finest international artists to a wide audience of both new and established collectors.

Mila worked at Sotheby's in the Client Development department while curating a number of exhibitions in Baku and Istanbul. She then managed the PR and Communication of a commercial art gallery in London, before focusing on curating and private art dealing.

During her active years on the art market, Mila studied at Central Saint Martins and Christie's Education, gaining a theoretical insight into Collecting Contemporary Art, Independent Curating and Art Business. In 2011, Mila will be coordinating the Azerbaijani pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Gazelli Art House

Gaye Black (also known as Gaye Advert) was the bass player for punk band "The Adverts" in the 70s, best known for the hit single "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" which was a controversial song based on the wishes of Gary Gilmore, an American murderer, that his eyes be donated to medical science after his execution. Described as; "the sickest and cleverest record to come out of the new wave".

As well as being a musician Gaye is also a graphic artist and curator, she is now in the second year of curating an exhibition at the Signal gallery on the theme "Beyond Punk". For more information about Gaye and the Signal Gallery use the links :-

• signalgallery.com
• punk77.co.uk - The Adverts
• southendpunk.com - Beyond Punk
• curatedmag.com - Beyond Punk

Miriam Halahmy is an author and a poet. She has published two poetry collections. Her poems have been read on the radio and performed on stage. Miriam has published a novel for adults; SECRET TERRITORY, Citron Press, and the first novel in a cycle of three for Young Adults; HIDDEN, Meadowside Books, March 2011, shortlisted for the Essex Book Award 2011. Miriam is a member of the Society of Authors, SCBWI, English PEN and the Highgate Poetry Society. www.miriamhalahmy.com