Call For Entries: Violet Constitute Of Fossil Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2019

The Call for Entries for entries to the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters has been opened upwards for over half dozen weeks. It closes on Friday xxx August (12 noon) in exactly over half dozen weeks time.

This transportation service highlights the following:

An increasing emphasis on petroleum painting
Exhibition - a summary of venue together with issue of paintings to go exhibited
Summary of the Call for Entries process

who tin enter
what you lot tin enter
how to enter
the timetable
a summary of the prizes together with alternative process

Reflections on statistical information relating to previous years - which many volition reveal interesting

Plus what this exhibition has looked similar inwards the past. At the cease are links to all the weblog posts I've written inwards previous years nearly the exhibition, who won prizes together with who got selected - together with links to their websites!

An increasing emphasis on petroleum painting?

Pete Brown's palette - from in conclusion year's talk!

I retrieve I reveal a novel emphasis inwards the Call for Entries for the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters on petroleum painting!

The Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) seeks function inwards oils together with is the exclusively national fine art lodge devoted to petroleum painting

That mightiness seem an strange indicate to make, even thence it has been conventional inwards the past times to care for acrylics every bit if they are oils - together with quite merely they are not!

BELOW are some statistics on the topic of the media for industrial plant inwards the exhibition over the in conclusion 5 years

Number together with pct of industrial plant - past times medium - inwards the ROI Annual Exhibitions 2014-2018

In 2018 at that spot was a marked alter inwards media selected for exhibition. There was a novel President together with this is how the numbers changed

the issue of paintings exhibited INCREASED from the previous yr (but were similar to 2015 together with 2016)
the issue together with pct of paintings inwards acrylic DECREASED (i.e halved)
a tiny issue of artists teach out along to mix petroleum amongst other media (5 or fewer paintings each year)
none of the immature artists worked other than inwards petroleum - every bit per previous years

I regard this every bit a real positive move. My persuasion is that if you lot are going to cause got a media based lodge thence you lot should stick to that media! (I'd similar to meet an exhibition past times an fine art lodge of acrylic painters)

It should go noted that those producing acrylic paintings are primarily existing members.

I'm guessing that it is straightaway 'de rigeur' that you lot MUST consistently pigment inwards oils if you lot desire to teach out a member

Exhibition

The exhibition volition go held at the Mall Galleries between Wednesday 27 Nov together with sun 8 Dec 2019 - making 11.5 days inwards total. Hours are 10am - 5pm but the exhibition closes at 1pm on the in conclusion twenty-four hr stream .

Last yr it was exclusively held inwards the Main Gallery together with the Threadneedle Space. My challenge to the ROI is to bring together the "premier league" of those societies who exhibit at the Mall Galleries and....

use the whole gallery together with growth industrial plant hung; and
generate to a greater extent than sales for their exhibiting artists.

The Private View inwards 2018

I similar to render feedback nearly the exhibition metrics associated amongst the previous year's exhibition together with the success of non-members inwards getting their function hung

Below is a tabular array of the numbers relating to in conclusion year's exhibition from my analysis of in conclusion year's exhibition

ROI 2018 Open Entry Exhibition statistics - for artists together with artworks

The cardinal points are every bit follows

750 artists submitted 1,900 artworks to the exhibition this year. Of these

16% of artists got 10% of the artwork past times the initial digital screening phase - together with submitted function for concluding selection.

10% of the artists who submitted function cause got function hanging inwards the exhibition

Only 6% of the artwork submitted was selected for the exhibition

This suggests that quite a lot of artists submit a lot of artwork.

The Good News - this is a competitive opened upwards entry but at to the lowest degree a 3rd of the exhibition volition go past times artists together with artwork from the opened upwards entry.

The CALL FOR ENTRIES - Process together with Key Points

What follows is a summary of the KEY POINTS

Submit artwork inwards oils - framed or every bit box canvases but non matted or glazed
The deadline for submissions is Friday xxx August (12 noon)
"London" is the special theme for 2019
Entry for the 2019 contest is digital together with ONLINE.
Images must go inwards JPEG format together with nether 5MB
Submission fee which includes Free Admission to the exhibition (normally £4)
£18 per function at the fourth dimension of submitting
£12 per function for artists aged 35 or nether
Make certain you lot read ALL the Terms together with Conditions if you lot don't desire to go disqualified

This is the Call for Entries Page

I RECOMMEND that:

You review the images from past times exhibitions (see weblog posts reviewing past times exhibitions at the cease of this post)
Have a teach out together with teach into ii of your best works. The cost relative to the achievement together with the experience is negligible
This exhibition is peculiarly supportive of Young Artists together with all those petroleum painters nether the historic stream of 35 should experience encouraged to apply

Who tin enter

The contest is opened upwards to all artists over the historic stream of 18.
It is likewise opened upwards to international entries - you lot don't fifty-fifty cause got to go alive or function inwards the UK. However

make certain you lot read the Mall galleries/FBA Notice notice nearly the bespeak to register for VAT to teach your artwork through Customs together with into the UK!
you mightiness reveal my page about International Art Shipping: How to ship / export fine art to other countries useful.

What you lot tin enter

Eligible media includes:

oil
acrylic pigment or H2O based oils are eligible if framed similar an petroleum painting.
BUT I retrieve they ought to brand the indicate that other media likewise needs to go used similar petroleum pigment tin be
AND I retrieve all those thinking nearly entering ought to bring a long difficult await at the statistics - together with thence pigment inwards oils!)

Presentation:

Wide mounts betwixt ikon together with frame, every bit inwards watercolours, are non acceptable.
Glazed function is non encouraged.
Unframed function tin go accepted if on a well-presented box canvas.
Paintings should go completely dry out at the fourth dimension of delivery.

Size: NEW The combined touchstone of industrial plant accepted volition non go past times 8 feet maximum per artist.
Age: Work must cause got been completed inwards the in conclusion iii years together with NOT exhibited inwards London previously.
For Sale:

All function must go for sale (except for portraits).
Minimum sale price: £300

Number: Maximum of half dozen industrial plant submitted. (Maximum of 4 industrial plant selected)

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that anybody proposing to teach into function for the exhibition -- whether fellow member or opened upwards entrant has a READ of my Review: ROI Annual Exhibition 2018 + commentary on pricing

You'll meet why when you lot read it - assuming you'd similar to boost your income! However I'll laissez passer on you lot a clue....

nearly 75% of the sales relate to pocket-sized together with small/medium industrial plant which are selling for nether £2,000 - amongst most selling for less than £1,000

Special theme inwards 2019

Brilliant idea! People who alive and/or function inwards London purchase paintings of London - every bit exercise tourists!

This year’s Annual Exhibition volition include a 'show-within-the-show’ of paintings on the theme of “London”, to which members together with non-members alike are invited to submit industrial plant for consideration. It is hoped that the display volition capture the country’s uppercase metropolis inwards all its grapheme together with complexity through the eyes of contemporary artists, together with complement the broader exhibition of to a greater extent than varied subjects inwards the same medium.

Prizes & Awards

There are many prizes together with awards available to win, including those listed below. I've categorised them according to the type of prize.

Entries are reviewed together with assessed past times The Selection Committee. This comprises creative individual members of the Society together with membership is rotated annually - which agency the tastes influencing who gets chosen volition likewise alter on an annual footing together with your submission may reveal favour this year!

There are many prizes together with awards available to win - together with winning prizes enhances your CV re getting a Gallery!

NEW Prizes

I congratulate the ROI on introducing three novel prizes for 2019

The Small Works Wall inwards 2018

NEW The Tony Merrick Memorial Prize - An abide by of £250 inwards retentivity of the belatedly Tony Merrick ROI (1948-2018)
NEW The ROI Emerging Artist Prize - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 prize of £250 together with the chance to pass a twenty-four hr stream amongst 1 of the Institute's members, for an creative individual aged xxx or nether at the fourth dimension of submission
NEW The Small Painting Prize - An abide by of £250, opened upwards to members together with non-members, for the best pocket-sized ikon on display (maximum dimension of 12 inches / 30.5 cm, excluding frame)

In my view, other fine art societies could good adopt the latter ii prizes every bit well!

Cash prizes

The Phyllis Roberts Award - An abide by of £2,000 for an creative individual aged xxx or under
The Alan Gourley Memorial Award - An annual prize of £1,000, awarded for a ikon of outstanding merit
The Stanley Grimm Prize - Two awards totalling £700 (first prize £400, minute prize £300), to the painters whose function have the most votes from visitors to the exhibition
The Menena Joy Schwabe Memorial Award - An abide by of £250 for an outstanding petroleum painter

Art Materials Prizes

Winsor & Newton Young Artist Awards (for artists aged xxx or under) -

First Prize: £1,000 Winsor & Newton Fine Art Materials
Second Prize: £600 Winsor & Newton Fine Art Materials
Third Prize: £400 Winsor & Newton Fine Art Materials

Winsor & Newton Non-Member Award - £150 worth of Winsor & Newton Fine Art Materials
L. Cornelissen & Son - An abide by of a contemporary version of a Victorian Oil Painter's equipment
Frank Herring Easel Award - An abide by of a versatile easel

Publication & Other Awards

The Le Clerc Fowle Medal - In retentivity of Anne Le Clerc Fowle, presented annually for an outstanding grouping of paintings
The Artist Magazine Award - The winning creative individual volition go featured inwards a forthcoming resultant of The Artist magazine, impress together with digital editions
The Dry Red Press Award - The winning function volition go published every bit a greeting carte du jour past times Dry Red Press inwards their 'Prize Winners' range

Previous Exhibitions

You tin reveal links to my previous reviews of exhibitions below.

2018 -

Top tips for travelling artists - petroleum painters fifteen Aug 2011
The Best Books nearly Oil Painting