Brand New!! Telephone Band For Entries - Ra Summertime Exhibition 2018 - The 250Th Anniversary One!

Digital entries for the 2018 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts can start beingness submitted online from tomorrow - quaternary Jan 2018.

Grayson Perry is inwards accuse of co-ordinating the exhibition this yr which should instruct inwards really interesting - as well as too suggests that maybe nosotros mightiness watch some industrial plant which take maintain non made it past times the choice panel inwards the past.

My New Years resolution is to aspect at to a greater extent than art. It could endure yours. Go on take maintain a go! Submit to the 250th anniversary RA summertime exhibition https://t.co/4CnpEqP6Wu
— Grayson Perry (@Alan_Measles) January 1, 2018

NEW! Theme of this year’s exhibition is "Art Made Now"

Grayson Perry wants to ‘show the multifariousness of run beingness made inwards this moment’ - as well as is encouraging artists to submit only run made inwards 2017/18.

“Fellow artists! 2018 marks the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy, so the Summer Exhibition volition celebrate a quarter of a millennia of artistic innovation. As coordinator, I take maintain decided that the topic of the demonstrate volition endure ‘Art Made Now’. I desire to champion the republic of the exhibition as well as demonstrate off the multifariousness of fine art beingness made inwards this moment, so I encourage you lot to submit industrial plant that you lot take maintain made inwards 2017/18. I am too planning a particular ‘Room of Fun’ inwards a newly built business office of the Academy, so the commission may good aspect favourably on artworks that nosotros detect amusing.”

I wasn't a large fan of finally year's summertime exhibition (see Does the RA Summer Exhibition notwithstanding take maintain the WOW factor?) - but I truly similar the alternative perspectives that Grayson Perry comes upwards alongside - as well as I similar the topic as well as the notion of a "room of fun" - so I'm really hopeful of a fleck of WOW this summer.

Installation persuasion of Summer Exhibition 2017 © John Bodkin/DawkinsColour

Plus this Summer Exhibition is the i inwards the RA's 250th anniversary year - so a really proficient i to endure in!

The RA volition too endure celebrating the history of the Summer Exhibition for the finally 250 years through the Great Spectacle exhibition - of which to a greater extent than inwards due course!

This is beingness held inwards The John Madejski Fine Rooms, Weston Rooms, Galleries I as well as II - which agency some of the galleries commonly used for the Summer Exhibition volition endure used for this exhibition instead. I await the RA mightiness desire to demonstrate off their newly transformed RA campus which volition endure opening inwards May 2018 (fingers crossed).

The banner icon for the Great Spectacle | RA website

Ever since 1769, as well as at a succession of locations ranging from Pall Mall to Piccadilly, the Academy’s exhibition rooms take maintain been crowded for some 2 months each yr alongside hundreds of paintings as well as sculptures produced past times many of Britain’s leading artists.

This post is for:

for those who take maintain NOT submitted before;
for those who take maintain demand a reminder of what they demand to do; and
all those who demand to endure reminded why entry to the exhibition effectively closes BEFORE the deadline!

I exercise this LONG POST every year. It covers the consummate process

The Call for Entries Process

who tin enter
what you lot tin enter
the website as well as fundamental documents you lot demand to know about
how to enter: the timeline as well as process
how the RA helps prospective entrants brand a proficient project of their entry
why it's of import non to delay making a start on your application

The Selection Process

how it works
Who's doing the choice as well as hang this year
who's chairing the Panel (and I met her as well as had a chat at the dorsum terminate of finally year)

The Summer Exhibition - including

links at the terminate to my previous reviews of Summer Exhibitions at the RA - which include images so you lot tin watch what you're upwards against.

PLUS TIPS: how non to instruct caught out - things to beware of as well as things to think about

If I've spotted whatsoever changes or anything NEW I'll too highlight it below inwards the relevant section.

If you've spotted a modify that I haven't delight locomote out a comment!

Call for Entries Process - who/what/how as well as FAQs

The Basics of HOW to Enter

Go instruct your favourite cuppa as well as let's tackle the basics - as well as and then the rest......

The How to Enter website is https://summer.royalacademy.org.uk/
IMPORTANT! Buy your entry cast NOW! quaternary Jan is the kickoff 24-hour interval they are available for sale

You cannot locomote inwards if you've non bought one
Once the kickoff 12,000 forms take maintain been sold, that's it. No to a greater extent than volition endure issued...
...so don't locomote out thinking virtually your entry to the finally minute!

Submission is digital - follow the procedure outlined below

First you lot demand to REGISTER

Please depository fiscal establishment annotation registering for an concern human relationship does non secure entry. To submit an artwork you lot must purchase an Entry Form.

EITHER You demand to register first - as well as should exercise this now!

This is the application cast to register equally an private artist.
You must ALSO activate the concern human relationship (click the link inwards the e-mail you lot volition receive)

OR You take maintain submitted before as well as already take maintain an concern human relationship as well as don't demand to register. (Better retrieve where you lot made the depository fiscal establishment annotation of the e-mail as well as password!). You can request a novel password if you’ve forgotten

Next you lot demand to BUY YOUR ENTRY Form

The link for purchasing a cast is available from Th four Jan 2018 (I'll add together it inwards hither tomorrow)
NEW: The Entry Fee has increased past times £10 from £25 to £35
Login to your account (if you've submitted run digitally earlier you lot tin purpose the same concern human relationship again)
Only i Entry Form may endure submitted past times You (the Artist or Contributor) for the Exhibition
You take maintain a number of options - brand certain you lot tick the correct one - in that location is no going dorsum if you lot instruct it wrong

I am an private Artist OR I am representing an private Artist
I am an private Architect OR I am representing an private Architect
I am business office of OR representing a collaboration
I am representing to a greater extent than than i private Artist
I am representing an Architecture Company

There are two types of Entry Form - make certain you lot purchase the correct one!

one for submitting i Work and
another for submitting 2 Works

Buy your Entry Form / pay the fee (£35 per work) - i for each run - the RA volition as well as then e-mail confirmation of your order/entry into the contract

Note that if you lot exercise NOT submit a work:

You cannot instruct a refund
You cannot transfer the cast to someone else
so basically coin downward the drain!

Next Complete the ARTWORK DETAILS on the ONLINE FORM & upload image

Fill inwards your artwork details using the online form.
IMPORTANT Once you've bought a cast you lot tin exercise this at a afterward engagement prior to the deadline
Upload image(s) of your artwork.

Images must endure inwards i of the next formats: TIFF, TIF, JPEG, JPG or PNG. Each icon must non transcend 3.00MB as well as should endure at to the lowest degree 96dpi.

If you lot are entering a two-dimensional work, you lot must upload a primary icon showing the run inwards its entirety.
If you lot think it would aid the judges, you lot tin too locomote inwards upwards to 2 secondary images showing details of your work.
If you lot are entering a three-dimensional work, upload 3 images, showing the run from dissimilar angles.

SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY BEFORE THE DEADLINE

Even if you've bought a cast as well as therefore secured your entry - you lot notwithstanding take maintain to submit it!

Deadline for Entries: 23:59 (GMT) on Midweek fourteen Feb 2018.
To consummate your submission past times that engagement you lot MUST have:

Stage 1: paid the non-refundable fee as well as got access to the digital online entry cast (one for each work).
Stage 2a: completed entry details as well as submitted the digital entry cast (previously purchased).
Stage 2b: uploaded digital images of the artwork.
Late submissions and/or excuses are non accepted.

Eligible Artists - WHO tin Enter

Anyone tin enter. So long equally you lot bought your entry cast inwards time...

There are no constraints on historic menses or where you lot live.
You tin locomote inwards equally a fellow member of a collaboration (but your membership of that collaboration counts towards the bound on your entries)
You tin fifty-fifty endure anonymous as well as purpose a pseudonym.

(However if alive exterior the European Union you lot volition demand to read this notice virtually VAT Information - International Artists (PDF) or your run won't instruct assessed.)

Eligible Artwork - WHAT you lot tin enter

Original artwork: Artwork must endure master copy as well as capable of beingness exhibited.

That agency you lot either ain the copyright or take maintain all required permissions inwards writing.

By submitting a Work(s) when You are the Artist of such Work(s), You confirm that You concur all intellectual belongings rights inwards the Work(s) as well as that You take maintain obtained whatsoever tertiary political party consents required for the purpose of tertiary political party owned textile contained inwards the Work(s).

No. of industrial plant you lot tin enter:

A total of TWO artworks. This tin be

two on your own
or i on your ain as well as i equally a fellow member of a collaboration
or 2 which resulted from a collaboration.

It costs you lot £35 to locomote inwards i work (£70 for two)

Media you lot tin enter:

The exhibition showcases painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture as well as film.

An master copy impress is created only equally a print.

Ineligible industrial plant - what you lot cannot enter

The next types of run are inadmissible:

works that are over the specified size bound of 244 x 350cm (excluding sculpture as well as architectural models, where whatsoever i business office should non transcend 200cm on the longest side as well as the total weight must endure no to a greater extent than than 3,000kg when packed);

works that take maintain already been exhibited inwards a major establishment inwards London (excluding prints);

printed reproductions of master copy artworks (please refer to the FAQs);

works that contain noxious or toxic substances, take maintain flammability below 50°C, contain human tissue, or contain unsafe electrical appliances. Note: all electrical appliances must endure accompanied past times electrical flow PAT examination certification.

editions of sculptures cast inwards materials that are dissimilar to the materials of the exhibited work.

The electricity certificate requirement is new. I think I recall something beingness faulty finally year. They are taking no chances. Note the deadline

once you’ve been notified that your run has been shortlisted, you lot must shipping a re-create of your PAT certificate to summerexhibition@royalacademy.org.uk by Th 10 May. If you lot don't render us alongside a PAT certificate, nosotros won't endure able to display your work.

Very Useful Guidance - Recommended Reading

The RA has got rather proficient virtually providing helpful guidance to those submitting their work. These are listed inwards the correct manus column as well as include:

ESSENTIAL READING

Terms as well as Conditions - This is the contract you lot locomote inwards into when you lot submit an entry. It's legal as well as it's binding. You can't ignore whatsoever of it if you lot don't similar it. This is a uncomplicated MASSIVE exhibition as well as they demand to necktie things down....
Instructions for Entering Work - This is the i to impress off alongside honour to what to do. Looks much simpler than previous years.
Frequently Asked Questions

REQUIRED READING for all those who demand aid alongside digital images

Both the next are splendid as well as good worth filing away for reference inwards connector alongside other opened upwards exhibitions as well as fine art competitions

Video Tutorial: How To Photograph Your Work
How to Photograph Your Work (PDF)

RECOMMENDED READING - for those who don't sell their run inwards London

NEW Guide to Selling - This essentially codified previous advice virtually how things run as well as too focuses on distance selling via the website. I'm assuming they've taken legal advice virtually all the diverse regulations - as well as volition take maintain a closed aspect at this later.

You are the seller of your artwork; the RA introduces you lot to the buyer via the Summer Exhibition as well as receives a commission for providing this service. All arrangements for the payment of the residue of the purchase cost as well as collection or delivery of the artwork are made betwixt you lot as well as the buyer.

RECOMMENDED READING - for those who demand to instruct their artwork to London

Suggested Transport Agents (PDF) - some changes inwards the recommended movers from finally year
VAT Information - International Artists (PDF) ESSENTIAL READING for international artists

The Selection Process

The choice procedure starts earlier you've fifty-fifty submitted an application. That's because

only 12,000 entries volition endure accepted and
you can't locomote inwards unless you lot take maintain bought an entry form!

Selecting a Shortlist of 4,000

Only i tertiary (4,000) of the digital entries volition endure shortlisted for the 2nd circular of selection. This department covers:

who judges the entries
how you lot instruct the results for your initial submission
what happen

Selected as well as hung

c.1100-1200 industrial plant volition endure included inwards the exhibition which too includes industrial plant past times RA members.
Some two-thirds of the industrial plant included inwards the Summer Exhibition are probable to come upwards from the Open Submission - that's c.725-800 artworks.

Key facts virtually selection:

All submitted digital images of works, as well as shortlisted works, volition endure placed earlier the Summer Exhibition Selection Committee.
The Hanging Committee changes every year. Views equally to what merits choice is really much influenced past times the individuals judging work. That agency your run may endure selected this yr fifty-fifty if it has non made the cutting inwards previous years.

The Selection as well as Hanging Committee 2018

The flavor of the Summer Exhibition is laid past times those who select as well as the somebody who gets it all to "gel".

The Summer Exhibition Co-ordinator 2018 is Grayson Perry RA. He's responsible for how the exhibition is organised as well as the overall aspect - as well as nosotros know he's proficient at that!

The hanging commission for the Summer Exhibition are the next Royal Academicians. Those elected inwards the categories of printmakers, engravers as well as sculptors seem to take maintain taken over the show!

Painter: Humphrey Ocean
Printmaker: Allen Jones, Grayson Perry and Tom Phillips
Engraver: Christopher Le Brun (and electrical flow President of the RA),
Sculptors: Phyllida Barlow, David Mach, Cornelia Parker and Conrad Shawcross,

Have you lot ever noticed how many of the inwards a higher house exercise other things equally good equally the category they were elected in?

PLUS

Print is ever a major depict inside the exhibition as well as sells lots as well as lots!

Emma Stibbon and Chris Orr are coordinating the impress rooms as well as are keen to explore the attain of techniques beingness used past times printmakers today, from traditional methods such equally etching to 3D printing as well as curt experimental animations.

Architecture likes to exercise its ain thing.

Piers Gough is coordinating the architecture gallery as well as aims to create a room of models at oculus level. He encourages architects to locomote inwards 3 dimensional industrial plant of "all sizes as well as scales ... from stone oil ideas upwards to fully finished, inwards whatsoever medium" and, ideally, robust plenty to endure exhibited without protective covers.

My prediction is that those who depict volition exercise good - whether equally drawings or equally prints - as well as whimsy as well as fantasy mightiness endure exercise well.

Timeline for Selection

Previously the judges take maintain rejected some of the shortlisted industrial plant earlier the hang. This yr the industrial plant volition rest at the RA for the duration of the installation period.

RESULTS - First as well as 2nd circular of Judging

15 March - kickoff circular from digital images)
26 May – concluding circular (shortlisted work) - this yr in that location is no 2nd circular as well as ALL industrial plant volition endure kept until the hang.

DELIVERY of shortlisted industrial plant for Judging

Architecture: nine May 8am – 5pm
Sculpture 11 May 8am – 5pm
All other categories 10 May 8am – 7pm (i.e. Artist’s Book, Drawing, Painting, Photograph, Print, Mixed Media, Watercolour)

The Summer Exhibition 2018

the Summer Exhibition opens to Blue Planet on 12 June as well as closes on nineteen August 2018. Prior to this in that location volition endure several days of previews for the thousands of Friends of the RA.

THE BIG CHANGE this yr is that the Summer Exhibition volition endure inwards Burlington House, the habitation of the Royal Academy of Arts but volition endure in

Main Galleries and
The Sackler Wing of Galleries

I exercise promise somebody gets that glass elevator overhauled earlier the exhibition - it's going to endure going non-stop!

You tin watch what previous exhibitions take maintain looked similar inwards my reviews of them (on this Blog) inwards past times posts listed below.

Previous reviews of the Summer Exhibition

Key facts:

The exhibition has been held every yr since 1769! This is the 250th Annual Summer Exhibition at the RA.
It's a coin raiser - the submission fees as well as commissions fund the organization of the exhibition PLUS the activities of the RA Schools as well as other exhibitions seat on past times the RA
Prizes: prizes valued at c.£65,000 were on offering inwards 2016 (see FAQs). This was heading dorsum upwards to previous levels after a dip of some £20k inwards 2015.
The RA charges commission but does non conclude the sale. You demand to pay 30% for every sale concluded but the RA introduces you lot to the buyer, takes a deposit as well as you lot are as well as then responsible for making certain the sale is concluded as well as the buyer gets their artwork.

TIPS

These are a combination of normal remonstrations virtually things that tin instruct you lot inwards problem as well as and things that occurred to me spell writing this post.

Generic

READ Tips for artists entering exhibitions - which you lot tin detect on my Major United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland Art Competitions 2017-18 (top of the page underneath the stapline to the correct of the Home Button)
Download A Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Guide: Analysing the cost of entering a juried fine art exhibition - this is my gratuitous checklist (as a spreadsheet) of what to think virtually as well as how to cost out how much an entry truly costs

Summer Exhibition Specific

Don't misuse your Entry Form i time bought - it's simply non worth it. There are ever other years....

In the lawsuit of misuse of Your Entry Form, where it transpires that You take maintain used to a greater extent than than i Entry Form, the RA reserves the correct to ban You from entering the forthcoming Exhibition as well as whatsoever Exhibition inwards the future.

Don't mess alongside legal championship or copyright - your run should EITHER endure your ain completely master copy run OR if it has been derived from the run of others you lot demand to endure able to demonstrate that you lot take maintain the permission to purpose that run - otherwise you lot mightiness human foot the nib for legal costs for yourself AND the RA inwards the lawsuit of a dispute. If You exercise non ain all of the rights, championship as well as involvement inwards as well as to the Work, You must expressly inform the RA inwards writing of all relevant details concerning all other tertiary parties’ rights to the Work. You shall indemnify the RA against all losses, liabilities, costs as well as expenses inwards honour of claims made past times tertiary parties alleging partial or total ownership of the Work or whatsoever rights inwards the Work, including intellectual belongings rights.
Do non mess alongside Health as well as Safety - in that location take maintain been "issues" as well as you lot volition ain ALL the liability

You must ensure that each submitted Work conforms to all applicable wellness as well as security standards as well as regulations

Don't allow your gallery confuse the issue - You gallery cannot submit a run on your behalf unless it has already obtained your limited WRITTEN say-so to exercise so. So if you lot take maintain whatsoever discussions alongside your gallery virtually submitting work, brand certain you lot are 100% clear equally to who is taking the Pb as well as who is doing the paperwork.
If you're stuck on pricing:you tin travail consulting the department on How to Price Your Art on my Art Business Info website

This is what the stacks aspect similar for run waiting to endure hung inwards the Summer Exhibition
- as well as why you lot demand to pad corners

Framing your art

All two-dimensional industrial plant submitted must endure framed. The purpose of simple, neutral coloured frames is strongly encouraged. Metal, drinking glass as well as Perspex clip frames are non acceptable.

All two-dimensional industrial plant submitted must endure framed - as well as you lot demand to pad the corners for the stacks (see above)

It is of import that you lot take your fixtures equally they may non encounter alongside our standards as well as they mightiness crusade harm to other artworks. If your shortlisted run is selected for the exhibition, nosotros volition affix our criterion hanging fixtures to the frame. FAQS

If you lot submit an unframed work, this is strictly at your ain risk.
You only take maintain to frame i impress - you lot tin sell farther prints from from the edition without a frame
You tin too consult the department on How to Frame Your Art on my Art Business Info website

For sculpture as well as architecture models you lot should non deliver display plinths for your work

Prints as well as Pricing

If you lot are submitting prints - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 large per centum of the c.5,000+ industrial plant sold at some summertime exhibitions relate to the repeat sales of limited edition fine fine art prints.

Fine Art Prints typically exercise extremely good inwards terms of sales because they are to a greater extent than affordable. However if you lot don't desire to endure out of bag on postage stamp as well as packing....

All prices stated inwards the Entry Form should include United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland postage stamp as well as packing for sending unframed editions of prints to purchasers.
If you lot are NOT legally resident inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland - i.e. you lot are classified equally an private without a United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland residence, exercise depository fiscal establishment gibe out the province of affairs alongside honour to VAT as well as READ VAT Information - International Artists (PDF) - their guide is good

Specific queries

For specific questions on the procedure non answered inwards whatsoever of the really specific Guidance Notes you lot volition demand to e-mail the RA Summer Exhibition Team via the 'Contact Us' website form. Note that replies may convey upwards to 3 working days.

I strongly recommend you lot brand really certain that the reply is non aavailable inwards the information they render earlier asking your question. There's really rarely anything novel nether the sun! :)