Brand New!! Gild Of Botanical Artists - Annual Exhibition 2014 - Telephone Telephone For Entries

Botanical artists withdraw maintain but nether 2 months to acquire our entries create for this year's Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists - which is opened upwards to entries from both non-members together with international artists.  This post is an overview of the telephone phone for entries together with the process.

Call for Entries - Society of Botanical Artists
Botanical Garden Annual Exhibition 2014

Note that this year, both the Receiving Day together with Annual Exhibition are afterward than usual.

The Receiving Day for entries for about concluding year's Receiving Day.

The theme of this year's exhibition is The Botanical Garden. It will include virtually 700 works of botanical art:

• at Westminster Central Hall, Storey's Gate, London SW1H 9NH together with is 
• between Friday, ninth to Lord's Day 18th May 2014 (Daily from 11am to 5pm including Sundays)
• open to the populace - admission FREE

Below you lot volition find:

• the cardinal points for those wanting to acquire into the Exhibition.  
• links to previous posts on this weblog which include images hence you lot tin encounter the type together with character of run which is accepted for exhibition and/or wins prizes
• links to my resources for botanical artists

"The Botanic Garden" - theme for the 2014 Exhibition

For the championship of ‘Botanical Garden’, nosotros hateful the world’s gardens: tropical or hothouses, orchards, wetlands, wastelands, vegetables, herbaceous borders, the arboretum, rose gardens, alpine slopes, desert plants, from oceans to ponds, wild flowers, prairies together with grasslands, stone gardens, woods together with forests, to cite a few. It is a run a endangerment for artists to portray, together with visitors to understand, the many sites where dissimilar plants tin live seen. Special areas inside the exhibition volition display works inward dissimilar categories: for instance, inward a cottage garden, flowers together with vegetables traditionally grow together; inward the bog garden, entirely moisture-loving plants volition survive; inward the dessert, sun-seekers volition flourish. Since plants are real versatile, some plants volition agree into several categories.

You don't withdraw maintain to submit run which complies amongst the theme - even hence works which practise brand for a to a greater extent than interesting Exhibition.

How to acquire into the Exhibition

The Society of Botanical Artists has an informative together with accessible webpage

• "how to exhibit" is for those wanting to submit to artwork to its Annual Exhibition 
• You tin download the Conditions of Exhibition data canvas for 2014
• the same page too deals amongst how to dice an Associate Member (see my previous post How to dice a fellow member of the Society of Botanical Artists re. what you lot withdraw maintain to practise to dice an Associate Member - together with and then Member)

Who tin submit work?

This is an Open Exhibition which attracts entries from all over the basis - partly because it has a set-up which makes it easier for international artists to submit work.  Ask nicely together with I'll bring a photograph of your run hanging inward the exhibition if selected! :)

(Seriously - if you lot alive overseas together with your run is accepted delight practise brand it impact if you'd similar your run photographed inward the exhibition).

What variety of run tin live entered?

• Eligible work: pictures, sculpture, miniature work, drinking glass engraving, ceramics, jewellery, carving, metal-work
• Eligible Media: watercolour, pencil, coloured pencils, pastel, oil, gouache, mixed media etc  (photography together with digital works are non eligible for the fourth dimension being)
• Subjects: may live life-size, reduced or enlarged.  
• Traditional botanical instance together with found portraiture; (read the Federal Reserve annotation virtually fungi)
• works reflecting habitat together with environment. 
• Originality: all run must live master copy together with executed past times the creative mortal who signs the submission form. Copies of whatever run past times whatever other artists, living or dead, could number inward prosecution. 
• Size of subject: dependent plain thing may live life-size, reduced or enlarged
• Size of work: 
• maximum size of run of 48" on longest length
• multiple works intended to hang together must non locomote past times 48" assuming a 1" gap betwixt hung work
• size constraints for miniatures are: 7" x 5" for miniature paintings together with 8" for Sculpture inward whatever dimension.
• Number of works: 
• Up to v works - ALL must live dependent plain to choice together with for sale
• Non members seeking associate membership MUST submit v works
• a maximum of iv works past times non members volition live hung

What is the creative mortal responsible for?

The creative mortal is responsible for:

• identifying whatever especial characteristic of the run or explanation of it amongst honor to the theme to the SBA
• copyright of the artwork - all run must live the master copy run of the artist
• the payment of whatever importation charges or duties
• all payment of VAT if the creative mortal is liable together with registered (no VAT is charged past times the Society on whatever sales)
• making certain those delivering the artwork practise hence on the correct twenty-four hours together with at the correct time
• arranging for the unpacking of artwork on delivery together with packing of run on collection
• insurance of the artwork inward transit together with during the exhibition
• distribution of individual stance invitations to their collectors

The Receiving Day

Receiving twenty-four hours is 17 March 2014 - at the Aldersgate Room inward the basement of Westminster Central Hall. 

IMPORTANT: 

• The entry schedule is four-part self-carbonised 
• It's ONLY available from the Executive Secretary by post on receipt of a self-addressed envelope (use A4 or A5). Check that you lot utilisation an appropriate pen to consummate this hence that the carbonisation works on all iv copies
• To have the exhibition entry schedule you lot involve to transportation a stamped, addressed envelope to Pamela Henderson, Executive Secretary SBA; Tel: 01747 825718 Email: info[at]soc-botanical-artists.org. Please Federal Reserve annotation - Pam is extremely helpful together with real good organised!

What you lot involve to do

• Framed together with properly labelled artwork together with sculpture needs to live brought to the basement of Westminster Central Hall together PLUS
• A completed four-part exhibition schedule (entry form), 
• artworks and 
• a banking concern check or cash for the submission fees. 
• An explanation of no to a greater extent than than 200 words on 1 canvas of newspaper attached to your cast should explicate your submission inward relation to the theme of "The Botanic Garden" 
• Westminster Central Hall is to a greater extent than accessible than most - but don't assume it's slow to driblet off past times car.
• The nearest cloak-and-dagger stations are Westminster together with St James Park
• There is a machine common inward Abingdon Square together with metred parking - even hence this is a real busy purpose of London for parking together with ti's highly probable all spaces volition withdraw maintain gone hence don't assume you lot tin common nearby. Unloading should live possible exterior the Hall but entirely for a real brief stream but this is dependent on the traffic warden. 
• If coming from exterior London it's likely ameliorate to common on the outskirts of London together with grab a subway for the residuum of the journey.

Postal / Courier Submissions

• The Society does NOT withdraw maintain works past times post or carriage
• You tin even hence submit works via a carrier/courier 
• ONLY artwork arriving on the receiving twenty-four hours ONLY volition live accepted. Couriers are expected to unpack the work. 
• Overseas artists tin brand arrangements to submit run for framing inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland - even hence you lot involve to contact Pam virtually just how these arrangements run together with the dates it needs to attain the UK.

More virtually this Exhibition together with Botanical Art

Below you lot tin observe links to:

• past posts virtually this exhibition on this blog - amongst photographs of the run inward the exhibitions courtesy of the SBA.
• my websites which furnish "resources for botanical artists"

2013 exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists: "The Language of Flowers" - Call for Entries
• Prizewinners at Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2013
• Other prizewinners at the SBA Annual Exhibition 2013

2012 exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries - an overview of what's required for those wanting to acquire into run for the Annual Exhibition
• How to dice a fellow member of the Society of Botanical Artists - what you lot withdraw maintain to practise to dice an Associate Member - together with and then Member
• Society of Botanical Artists Submission Day - together with a botanical egg - a ikon present of the procedure on Submission Day
• 27th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists - which reviews the show
• Certificates of Botanical Merit at SBA 2012 - identifies the artists together with images which this yr were awarded a CBM
• 2012 Prizewinners at Society of Botanical Art's Annual Exhibition
• A 'Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark' Profile of Fiona Strickland about an interview amongst Fiona Strickland

2011 exhibition

• Entry weather for Society of Botanical Artists
• Review: Society of Botanical Artists Exhibition 2011
• Certificates of Botanical Merit at SBA Exhibition 2011
• Botanical Art nether fire

2010 exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists - Silver Jubilee
• Society of Botanical Artists 2010 Prizewinners
• Society of Botanical Artists 2010 #1
• Botanical fine art inward coloured pencils

2009 exhibition

• Exhibition Review: Society of Botanical Artists #1
• Exhibition Review: Society of Botanical Artists #2
• The biggest exhibition of coloured pencil artwork inward the UK

2008 Exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists - The Botanical Palette exhibition

2007 Exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists - Flowers together with Gardens Exhibition 2007

2006 Exhibition

• Review of the SBA Exhibition (2006)

My botanical fine art 'resources for artists' websites

Resources for Botanical Artists - knowledge together with techniques

Botanical Art - Resources for Artists
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A History of Botanical Art

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