Rws Contemporary Watercolour Contest 2016 - Telephone Scream Upwardly For Entries

The Royal Watercolour Society published their Call for Entries for the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2016 last week.

Webpage for the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition

RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2016

Call for Entries

This is a link to the Application Pack which provides the details virtually who/what/where too when.

Who tin move enter

The Royal Watercolour Society’s annual contest is open to all artists except RWS Members.

In lawsuit it's an opened upward entry for artists who may larn the side past times side Associate too Full Members of the RWS equally the contest takes house prior to the elections to membership.

Eligible work

Original work: The piece of employment must receive got been made past times the entrant. There are no comments virtually derivative pieces or piece of employment of photographs taken past times other people.
Subject matter: no constraints
Age of work: completed inwards final 4 years. Yet 1 time to a greater extent than nosotros receive got a contest which does non stipulate a engagement to dot the "later than" constraint.
Size of work: Slight contradiction on the FAQS which says inwards 1 judgement that all sizes of piece of employment are welcomed "However, if your icon is framed, it should non overstep 100 x 100cm"
Eligible media: includes: "all water-based media" - which means watercolour, acrylic, gouache, ink or whatsoever other water-based media on a newspaper support

The judges volition live looking for ideas, competence too integrity – equally long equally the materials accommodate to those stipulated on the application form, they volition live interested inwards how you lot select to piece of employment them too volition live excited past times both excogitation too expertise inwards traditional methods inwards using water-based media.

Pricing: all piece of employment MUST live for sale. Note that the Bankside Gallery levies a committee of 40% + VAT on icon demo sales

There's a potent emphasis on "contemporary artwork'.

The judges are looking for pieces that force at the boundaries of watercolour, promote water-based media at its most accomplished too enquire audiences to see the medium inwards a novel too contemporary light.

I really much promise that they larn - too select - artwork which clearly demonstrates the effects which tin move live achieved when watercolour is used with science too accomplishment. I've been waiting a really long fourth dimension for the RWS to uncovering the side past times side Leslie Worth!

What I tin move tell you lot is that, based on recent exhibitions, relatively few traditional watercolour paintings receive got been selected inwards the past.

Maybe it volition live unlike inwards 2016?

My Review: RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2015 is recommended reading for those thinking of applying for this competition. In it I commented on:

who won the prizes
what the exhibition looked similar - on the walls of the gallery
the lack of sales for a sure enough type of painting
why I recollect this contest too exhibition has lost its way

Exhibition for RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2015

My most pregnant comment - which I recollect definitely recollect bears repeating - was equally follows

I likewise recollect somehow people receive got got the thought inwards their caput that mayhap "contemporary" agency abstracted too exclusively without whatsoever prove of draughtsmanship - too that is only non true. The Definition of "contemporary" which should inform this demo is "belonging to or occurring inwards the present"

That genuinely agency it should stand upward for the consummate gamut of fine art beingness produced today - because otherwise the exhibition exactly reflects what gets submitted too what gets selected according to the personal tastes of the judges

Exhibition for RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2015 #2

Deadline for entries

The deadline for entries is Monday 18th Jan 2016, 12 noon

How to enter

You tin move come inwards a maximum of vi paintings.

Entry is past times digital submission - of shape too artwork - via this webpage plus payment of the relevant fee

photographs should live of the unframed piece of employment - cropped to the border of the icon - inwards fifty-fifty light.
Images should live inwards jpg format too no bigger than 2MB
the forms must state title, framed dimensions, medium too price. So if you've non framed the piece of employment you lot take away to approximate what the framed dimensions volition live - too and hence non overstep them if selected!

The fee for entry at £14 per artwork.

This is discounted past times £5 each for plant 3-5 too £10 for #6 i.e. the full cost of submitting vi entries is £59.
this is comparable to the £14 per artwork charged for the opened upward exhibitions of the other national fine art societies exhibiting at the Mall Galleries.
There are reductions on multiple submissions.
entries from bona fide fine art students at recognised fine art schools too Watercolour Society Friends are free

Selection

The judges are:

Richard Selby (Redfern Gallery)
Sam Cornish (Arts Writer)
Thomas Plunkett (President of the RWS) - this is his personal website.
Wendy Jacob (RWS Member) - this is her personal website. I've grown accustomed to thinking of Wendy equally the fences lady even hence she likewise paints silent life, gardens too her travels
John Crossley (RWS Associate Member) - Interestingly they've selected an Associate fellow member who piece of employment inwards an abstract way using acrylic and/or watercolour with gouache on paper. This is his artist statement.

H5N1 listing of paintings selected for the exhibition volition live published on the RWS website on Friday 29 January.

You receive got a calendar month to larn your selected piece of employment framed too couriered or transported to London.

Delivery of unwrapped too framed paintings is to Bankside Gallery on Sunday 28 or Mon 29 February, 11am-5pm. Paintings may non live delivered on whatsoever other date.

Note inwards exceptional that

Work volition non live accepted if delivered past times Royal Mail, FedEx, DHL etc., or past times taxi equally they make non receive got specialist fine art insurance.

You exactly know that in that place receive got been disputes over harm when you lot see notes similar that!

Note the requirements of all paintings selected for exhibition identified in Preparing Your Paintings for Exhibition of the Application Pack. . You tin move live selected and too hence non hung if you lot don't encounter the requirements.

Exhibition

The exhibition volition live at the Bankside Gallery 4-16 March 2016.

Prizes

There are a arrive at of prizes but these rank with those available at the opened upward exhibitions of other national fine art societies rather than those of the to a greater extent than prestigious fine art competitions.