Brand New!! Ra Summertime Exhibition 2014 Goes Totally Digital!

This is actually of import intelligence for anybody who has e'er wanted to submit artwork to the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Art - but was deterred yesteryear the submission process.

This yr the RA's Summer Exhibition entry procedure is GOING DIGITAL! As inwards it's non simply the architecture together with sculpture - ALL submissions volition inwards futurity hold out via digital entry.

Artists volition exclusively hold out able consummate together with submit their entry forms online via a dedicated website. During the online submission process, artists volition hold out asked to upload digital photographs of their artworks.

READ ON to notice out about:

a few tips from me - which are at the outset to persuade you lot of the wisdom of reading on!
all you lot demand to know at this stage regarding

timeline together with telephone substitution dates
how to come inwards
how to submit a query - non covered yesteryear FAQs

RA Summer Exhibition 2013
drawings, paintings together with sculpture inwards simply i of the Main Galleries (The Lecture Room)

Tips nigh Digital submission to the 2014 Summer Exhibition

I've written earlier nigh entering fine art competitions:

Below you lot tin my tips for this exhibition - based on what I know nigh digital submission.

TIP #1: Get you lot entry inwards equally shortly equally possible after the digital submission starts on half-dozen January

Digital submission ALWAYS generates Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 LOT MORE ENTRIES than the normal hand-delivered entry system. It's non ridiculous to justice that it has the orbit to at to the lowest degree double the pose out of entries.........
Which is why the RA induce got for the really inaugural off CAPPED the entries at 12,000. This is a rounding of the normal pose out of entries they receive. In other words they've moved amongst the times inwards price of converting to digital entry - but they're non prepared to necktie the pick panel upwards for days on destination if they larn swamped amongst digital entries.

TIP #2: Digital is hither to stay. Be prepared or gear upwards to fail.

It's non optional. Whether you lot similar it or non it's popular off the touchstone method of eliminating those unlikely to build the inaugural off cut.
It's also a actually nifty way of cutting downwardly on a lot of treatment costs for both organisers together with artists.
If you lot don't induce got a figurer together with the skills for doing photography together with the cognition of how to larn the photograph together with application cast completed online hence you lot demand to start finding mortal to assist you lot now!

TIP #3: Make certain you lot induce got got a actually first-class icon of your work

Each icon must non overstep 3MB together with should hold out 150 dpi (dpi = dots per inch. This is non the highest resolution but is perfectly acceptable for viewing online. The images inwards this post are 72 dpi together with 550 pixels wide)
Don't give selectors a actually tardily argue to spend upwards your operate e.g. the icon is poor, besides small, does non stand upwards for the operate well. Make certain the icon is good lit, large together with first-class - together with conforms to the digital icon criteria.
Don't overhype your operate inwards lodge to larn it pre-selected. Chances are you lot powerfulness simply destination upwards amongst an expensive nib for getting the operate to London together with non beingness selected for the exhibition

TIP #4: Be clear on the dates together with deadlines together with larn them marked upwards on your digital or newspaper format calendar now.

This yr you lot volition hold out working to a completely different laid of dates if you lot desire to build certain your artwork has a run a peril of beingness selected!
That means:

if you lot are to larn your operate inwards earlier the cap is employed you lot demand to submit equally shortly equally possible after sixth January.
If you lot larn out submission equally belatedly equally the commons deadline you lot run a really large peril of non beingness able to submit inwards 2014 (see inaugural off tip inwards a higher house equally to why!)

TIP #5: The touchstone of entry re. fine fine art prints together with photos is really high.

Each yr the touchstone of entry for photographs together with fine fine art prints keeps getting improve together with better.
I wishing the same could hold out said for drawings together with paintings - some are nifty together with some are non hence great!

RA Summer Exhibition 2013 - Some of the Fine Art Prints

The novel procedure for drawings, paintings together with prints

While the application cast has been submitted via a digital procedure for some fourth dimension - the artwork nevertheless had to hold out delivered unless it was a sculpture or architectural piece. Artists amongst drawings, fine fine art prints, photographs or paintings nevertheless had to build certain their artwork arrived on the allotted 24-hour interval inside the specified fourth dimension period.

If that meant standing inwards the rain, you lot wrapped upwards your artwork together with did simply that!

The Academy acknowledges the back upwards together with involvement that artists induce got shown for the exhibition inwards submitting their operate inwards the past, but it is also aware of the huge efforts, physical equally good equally financial, which artists build on an annual footing to convey their operate to the Academy for the pick process. It is clear that a growing pose out of artists would welcome a less arduous organization of digital entry for the inaugural off circular of judging.RA Letter to quondam Summer Exhibition Entrants

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel screening process

In 2014, at that spot is going to hold out a inaugural off circular screening process. What this way is:

Artists volition submit digital photographs of their operate online
The first 12,000 artworks submitted are eligible for entry on a "first come upwards inaugural off served" basis. (That way it doesn't affair how much the selectors similar your work, or how many times you've been selected earlier etc. If you lot don't larn your artwork submitted equally purpose of the inaugural off 12,000 you lot won't hold out able to enter!)
the pick panel volition review the c.12,000 digital images (just equally they induce got been doing for sculpture together with architecture for a while)
the pick panel volition hit a shortlist of 4,000 entries eligible to deed forwards to the minute round. This much reduced pose out relates to the artwork which nevertheless has to hold out delivered to the RA for farther scrutiny yesteryear the judges.

The 2014 Process - Timeline together with how to enter

Key Dates

Submission - Round 1 - Screening of ALL ENTRIES via digital image

6 Jan - RA opens build novel website for consummate digital submission of entries i.e. consummate submission of your online entry together with digital images (this yr you lot may non hold out making the trip to London!). Tasks include:

open an online account
enter the details of your i or 2 artworks
upload digital images and
submit your completed entry PLUS the treatment accuse of £25 per work, payable online yesteryear credit or debit card.
(subsequently) monitor the progress of your entry

Midnight (GMT) xiv Feb 2014 - RA closes online entry (or EARLIER if to a greater extent than than 12,000 plant induce got already been submitted? It's currently unclear whether the cap applies earlier or after the deadline for entries)
17 March - results of inaugural off circular screening procedure (judging from digital images) Notification volition hold out via email.

Submission - Round 2 - Screening delivered plant on shortlist

Delivery of shortlisted works selected from digital images are pretty much the same form of dates equally before

11 together with xiv Apr - Works nether glass
15 together with sixteen Apr - Oils, acrylics together with 2 dimensional plant which are non nether glass
30 Apr - Sculpture
1 May - Architecture

2 May - Second circular of judging of shortlisted works
22 May - Announcement of the Final Selection
Collection :

12 May – half-dozen June plant non selected from shortlisted works
22 May – half-dozen June plant non selected for finally hang

How to enter

You can:

read to a greater extent than detail on the RA's Plans for digital entry
see/read to a greater extent than data inwards the RA's Frequently Asked Questions (372 KB) document
read the email to previous exhibitors sent yesteryear the Secretary together with Chief Executive of the Royal Academy, explaining the process

To hold out notified yesteryear e-mail when the entry cast goes on sale, ship an e-mail to EntryForm@royalacademy.org.uk

Who tin enter

Anybody tin enter. There is no upper or lower historic catamenia limit. You don't induce got to alive inwards the Britain or hold out trained artist.

Specific queries

For specific questions on the procedure not answered inwards the FAQs document, you lot volition demand to e-mail the RA Summer Exhibition Team at summerexhibition@royalacademy.org.uk. Replies may pick out upwards to xiv days.

Summer Exhibition 2014

The 2014 Summer Exhibition takes house betwixt ix June – 17 August. It's the the largest opened upwards submission exhibition inwards the world. About 70% of the plant hung are yesteryear non-Academicians

Links:

Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition 2014
Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark: 10 reasons to see the RA Summer Exhibition 2013
Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark: How to come inwards the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2013 (I exercise an annual post every year)