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Brand New!! Telephone Phone For Entries: Rws Contemporary Watercolour Contest 2012

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I'm rattling pleased to run across that the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) has relaunched its major Annual Open Competition equally the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition and is calling for (digital) entries.  I missed the exhibition in conclusion twelvemonth due to beingness unable to walk whatever distance thence am peculiarly looking frontwards to seeing it this year.

The Royal Watercolour Society is the oldest watercolour social club inwards the world.  Its dwelling is the Bankside Gallery, on the southward banking venture of the River Thames - correct adjacent to Tate Modern.

This way that inwards 2012 the TWS volition get got 3 major exhibitions
A rainy hateful solar daytime inwards Perugia amongst cars past times David Paskett PRWS
watercolour as well as pen
exhibited at the RWS Spring Exhibition 2011
(you tin sentiment to a greater extent than of the President's operate on the Bankside Gallery website)
This post:
Note inwards special that although the RWS is flexible nearly the nature of the watercolour media that tin move used inwards artwork submitted to the exhibition, it is insistent that:
  • all industrial plant must move on paper - thence hopefully we'll run across rather less of the impasto acrylic industrial plant which were trying to await similar oils as well as which were, to my heed at to the lowest degree quite out of identify inwards a watercolour exhibition
  • all industrial plant must initially move submitted online using a digital paradigm as well as an online form.  
  • artists submitting operate volition demand access to an e-mail address to move able to larn into - simply it can, amongst their permission, move ane belonging to a identify unit of measurement fellow member or friend!
The aim of the Open Competition

The aim of the contest is to encourage project design and experimentation inwards watercolour.
The RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition is an annual contest opened upward to non-Members. It aims to encourage project design as well as experimentation inwards watercolour painting, spanning operate on newspaper inwards watercolour, acrylic, gouache, pen & ink as well as watercolour mixed media. Artists may larn into upward to 3 industrial plant which, if selected, are exhibited at Bankside Gallery, the dwelling of the Royal Watercolour Society.
Works exhibited at the Bankside Gallery in the RWS Open 2010
all paintings copyright the artist
Who tin larn into the competition?
  • The contest is opened upward to non-members of the Royal Watercolour Society.
What to submit
  • Details are available in 
  • All paintings inwards water-based media on paper are eligible, including acrylic, gouache, watercolour as well as pen as well as ink. (note the emphasis "on paper")
  • There is no restriction on trend or dependent plain matter.
  • The industrial plant should get got been painted inside iv years of submission 
  • Paintings must non overstep 100cm x 100cm when framed. 
  • A maximum of 3 industrial plant may move submitted at a terms of £12 per piece. 
  • All operate must move for sale.
  • The industrial plant must move the master copy operate of the artist and copyright must move vested inwards the named artist. [I recommend that whatever creative mortal who is unclear nearly the important of "original work" as well as copyright see Art competitions as well as copyright - the AWS Gold Medal debate 08.09.08. and AWS gilded medal contestation - the terminal word 17.08.10]
You tin review my weblog posts below nearly some of the previous exhibitions below. These include gallery shots of industrial plant inwards the exhibition as well as links to the websites of prizewinning artists.

How to enter
  • All entries are to move submitted digitally through the RWS website http://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/competitions.aspx
  • This is the page amongst the online form - yous volition require an e-mail address to proceed.
  • The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 11th Jan 2012.
  • Advice is given inwards the instructions on how to create a digital photograph eg
    • works should NOT move photographed through glass
    • crop the operate to take all background which is non the artwork
  • Successful entrants volition move notified on 27th Jan 2012 via e-mail and notification via the RWS website
How to submit work

All artwork must move properly framed as well as labelled.  Requirements are for a uncomplicated monochrome woods frame with a white or cream coloured mount.  Mirror plates should move fixed either side.  All industrial plant must likewise move glazed simply non-reflective or tinted drinking glass is non permitted.  Works exceeding 100cm x 100cm when framed volition move rejected.

All master copy paintings must move delivered to the Bankside Gallery on Sunday 19th or Mon 20th February for hanging inwards the exhibition which opens on 24th February 2012 (with a PV on the 23rd)

Regional collections prior to this appointment are likewise available.

Important dates
  • SUBMIT:  Wednesday 11th January - Upload your digital submission to the RWS website past times Midnight 
  • GET THE RESULT:  Friday 27th January - Find out your resultant on the RWS website
  • DELIVERY: Sunday 19th / Mon 20th February, 11am-6pm - Deliver selected operate to Bankside Gallery - either straight or via regional collections at an before date
  • PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday 23rd February, 6-8pm 
  • COLLECT:  Thursday 15th March, 1-7pm - Collect whatever unsold operate at the destination of the exhibition.  (This is rather anti-social for people who don't alive inwards London as well as who operate normal working hours!)
Two watercolour paintings past times Sarah Armstrong Jones
exhibited at the Bankside Gallery in the RWS Open 2010

The Judges

The 2012 judges volition be 
Selected works
  • A listing of selected paintings volition move published on the RWS website on Fri 27th January 2012.
  • Successful entrants volition have an email:
    • notifying them that their operate has been selected for exhibition
    • requirements inwards honour of framing as well as delivery to the gallery
The exhibition

The RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2012 Exhibition volition select identify at the Bankside Gallery betwixt 24th Feb as well as 14th March 2012.

I'm non sure whether Blackfriars Tube station volition move reopen past times then.  If not, the gallery is less than a 10 infinitesimal walk from St Pauls Undergound Station.  Walk southward of St Pauls, across the Millennium Bridge as well as past times Tate Modern.

How to apply to move a Member of the RWS

The RWS is ane of the most prestigious fine art societies inwards the world and all Members of the Royal Watercolour Society are elected on merit, inwards a tradition reaching dorsum almost 2 hundred years.  

Naturally yous get got a few hurdles to saltation before yous are eligible for membership.  

One of the things yous get got to determine correct at the start is whether yous desire to move a fellow member of the Royal Watercolour Society or The Royal Institute of Painters inwards Water Colours.  You don't seem to move able to move a fellow member of both.
The election of novel Members takes identify each outpouring as well as is opened upward to all professional person artists who paint in watercolour, providing that they exercise non belong to some other social club of painters inwards watercolours in London. 
  • All New Members are elected past times the electrical current Membership of the Society, based on the lineament of their operate alone.  Initially artists move Associate Members. 
  • Application forms for the elections are available from Bankside Gallery inwards the autumn
  • Elections commonly select identify inwards March.  In 2012 the elections volition select identify on Sabbatum 17th March as well as all decisions are reached past times bulk vote inwards a secret ballot of electrical current Members. 
  • Artists wishing to pose themselves frontwards for election are asked to submit 3 framed industrial plant as well as a portfolio of supporting industrial plant for consideration.
The Society accepts operate inwards watercolour, pen & ink, gouache as well as acrylic that is mixed with water as well as is on paper. All submitted operate must get got been made inside the in conclusion iv years.  

There are special arrangements for review of artwork submitted equally purpose of the application as well as election process.

Application: How to submit artwork for review
  • Return your completed application form, CV, SAE as well as non-refundable fee of £40 past times post to Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH before Fri 17th February (ie later yous know whether your operate has been accepted for this year's opened upward exhibition). 
  • Deliver three framed, glazed paintings as well as a portfolio of supporting work to the Bankside Gallery on Fri 16th March betwixt 11am as well as 7pm. Note inwards special that artwork volition non move accepted before or later this appointment as well as tin non move accepted past times post. 
  • You may adapt for a illustration or professional fine art courier to deliver as well as unpack your operate inwards the Gallery on this date.
  • Framed paintings must non overstep 1.5m x 1.5m. All icon must move clearly labelled on the back.  
  • Successful applicants volition move required to donate ane of their framed paintings to the RWS's Diploma Collection which contains operate past times members since its foundation inwards 1804.
  • The applicant's portfolio may comprise modest watercolour sketches, studies, drawings, sketchbooks as well as operate in progress. Supporting operate may move presented liberate or inwards clear sleeves, simply each item must get got your name written on it inwards pencil. Your portfolio must likewise move clearly labelled on the outside.  (In my sense of reviewing operate submitted to some other fine art society, artwork is removed from sleeves as well as needs to move capable of identification to ensure it gets dorsum into the correct portfolio!)
  • Artwork as well as portfolio tin move collected on Sunday 18th March betwixt 11am as well as 7pm - when applicants are told the effect of their application.
Success brings rights as well as obligations.  Initially all successful applicants volition move Associate Members as well as volition move entitled to usage the letters ARWS later their name.  However newly elected Associate Members are likewise obliged to 
  • pay an annual subscription of £250
  • submit operate for sale to the Society’s exhibitions on a regular basis, or to come upward before the Council who may consider rescinding Membership. 
A rattling strange timeline!

What's rattling strange nearly this is that the appointment for delivery of artwork relating to the review of candidates for election is 2 days later the exhibition finishes on 14th March as well as ane hateful solar daytime later whatever unsold industrial plant demand to move collected on 15th March!

It would move worth querying amongst the RWS whether industrial plant submitted for exhibition as well as unsold tin move considered for an application without having to exit the gallery.  Also what happens to whatever industrial plant which are submitted to the exhibition as well as and thence sold.  I'm assuming the juxtaposition of dates way that it may move possible to submit the same industrial plant to the exhibition as well as for review re whatever application for membership.  Otherwise artists genuinely demand to get got a 2 splendid sets of paintings - to submit to the exhibition as well as to submit equally purpose of the application for election.

It's sure worth noting that the industrial plant which tin move considered inwards relation to an application for membership are much bigger than those which tin move submitted to the exhibition.  So large industrial plant will, inwards whatever case, demand to move submitted separately.

I genuinely detect this all a flake silly.  Every other fine art social club requires artists to submit operate to their annual exhibition as well as and thence the industrial plant of candidates for admission are reviewed when hung inwards the gallery.  This likewise allows members to review industrial plant from candidates on days other than a specific pick day.

Let's run across if at that topographic point are whatever changes to the timetable adjacent year! :)

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