New English Fine Art Gild Annual Exhibition 2013 - Telephone Phone For Entries

I ever hold back forwards to the Annual Exhibition of the New English linguistic communication Art Club (NEAC). It has a lot of first-class painters - together with it's too an fine art enterprise which is a fleck to a greater extent than switched on to the selling side of the business. These are non painters who are exhibiting purely for the kudos - really many of them are serious professional person painters who create this for a living. So sales matter.

I've ofttimes idea that if at that topographic point were an Art Society Open Exhibition to aspire to teach into, thus it would live the Annual Exhibition of the New English linguistic communication Art Club.

However, yesteryear implication, locomote selected from the opened upward entry needs to encounter around pretty high standards inwards terms of aesthetic together with commercial criteria.

This calendar week the Call for Entries has gone out for the adjacent Annual Exhibition which volition run from 29 Nov - 8 Dec 2013 at the Mall Galleries.

Paintings inwards the NEAC Annual Exhibition 2012

This post outlines the procedure for submitting locomote via the opened upward entry. Comments (as opposed to quotes) inwards italics are mine.

The images inwards this post are from the 2012 exhibition together with at the destination of this post are links to my reviews of previous exhibitions which too comprise images of artwork selected for exhibition.

Caution!

Before I start, it's worth noting that if y'all only hold back at the Mall Galleries "website brief" for this exhibition y'all may non hit a total agreement of what's required. You MUST read the Call for Entries leaflet. Some of the "must know" data is alone inwards the leaflet - together with at that topographic point is no link to the leaflet on the website brief! There again, around of the data is alone on the website together with non inwards the leaflet! I've tried to brand the distinctions clear below.

Who tin give the sack enter?

This exhibition is opened upward to non-members.

Website brief: There are no constraints on who tin give the sack enter.
Call for Entries Leaflet: Artists must live aged xviii or over together with alive or locomote inwards the Great Britain or EU.

What form of artwork is eligible?

The website brief together with the Call for Entries Leaflet both brand a bald contestation almost what artists intending to submit an entry postulate to know

Work submitted to the NEAC must have got a concern for the concept, allied to craft, every bit this is integral to artists's pathway together with career.NEAC Call for Entries

It's too relevant to greenback the contestation on the forepart page of the NEAC website

The New English linguistic communication represents the really best of contemporary British figurative painting.

In relation to other aspects of what form of artwork is eligible

Maximum pose out of plant which tin give the sack live submitted: 6. Maximum of v plant selected. The societies vary every bit to how many plant a fellow member or non-member may submit. Five plant from a non-member is a lot together with it's really odd for a lot of non-member plant to live selected! If you've non previously been selected I'd recommend a smaller pose out live submitted if submission is going to live a meaning expense for you. It would live skillful to reckon societies publicising how many opened upward entries they received, how many were selected together with how many non-member artists had locomote selected.
Age of work:

Website: Work must have got been completed inside the final 2 years.
Call for Entries Leaflet: No restrictions specified

Size of work:

Website: No restrictions specified
Call for Entries Leaflet: Works must non locomote yesteryear 2.4m inwards size inwards whatever direction

Acceptable media:

Website: Not specified on the website - thus around volition assume no stated limitations or exclusions.
Call for Entries Leaflet: Paintings, drawings, pastels, master framed prints (please item edition). Sculpture is NOT admissible. I've ever wondered what NEAC would create if somebody submitted a digital painting!

Work for sale / pricing:

Website: No stipulation almost locomote beingness for sale or minimum price
Call for Entries Leaflet - explicit that all locomote must live for sale. Minimum toll £300, unframed prints £120.
You tin give the sack teach a pricing benchmark to locomote from yesteryear checking out the NEAC Shop to reckon what form of prices the members are charging for their work
All prices postulate to allow for committee @45% summation VAT (e.g. on a locomote priced at £1,000 yesteryear an creative someone who doesn't have got to accuse VAT - £450 will live deducted yesteryear the Mall Galleries for committee together with they thus too deduct VAT @20% on the £450 (£90) together with pay this over to HM Customs & Excise. The creative someone volition thus live sent a cheque for £460 beingness the residuum afterward deductions. Artists alongside turnover (total sales value) inwards excess of the VAT threshold must include for VAT on the toll of the icon ie £200. So if y'all sell a lot y'all brand fifty-fifty less coin on a sale - £350.

Paintings yesteryear NEAC members: Diana Armfield, Ruth Stage together with Fred Cuming

How to enter

There are 2 ways to enter. The Call for Entries leaflet provides details of how both work. Artists living inwards the European Union together with sending locomote from abroad are recommended to utilization Online Pre-selection.

Online Pre-selection - This agency register your work, upload a digital epitome file together with have got your artwork reviewed inwards advance. This agency that if your locomote does non encounter the standards they're looking for thus it volition live rejected together with y'all have got saved yourself the cost of framing together with the cost of delivering the locomote - together with thus collecting it again. It's a really cost-effective way for artists who don't alive nigh London to submit their work. However there's no guarantee that your locomote volition live hung if pre-selected every bit it withal needs to live reviewed yesteryear the Selection Panel.
Offline Submission - deliver locomote to the Offices of the FBA on the normal Receiving Days alongside registration shape together with fee payable.

NEAC dates re entries / delivery / exhibition

Online Registration - for Online Pre-selection: Opens Th xiii June (noon) together with closes Th 12 September (noon)
Notification of Pre-selection Posted on the registration site from Th 17 Oct (noon).
Receiving Days Friday four & Sat v October, 10am-5pm. There are options to deliver on earlier dates to regional handing-in points
Notification of choice to the exhibition: Th 10 Oct (noon)
Collection of unaccepted work: Sat nineteen October, 10am-5pm
Collection of unsold exhibition work: Th 12 December, 10am-5pm
Exhibition dates: Friday 29 Nov - Sunday 8 December, 10am-5pm (daily) except final day

Note that the Call for Entries Leaflet states that the dates quoted for the delivery/collection of locomote are the ONLY days that locomote tin give the sack live delivered / collected from 17 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5BD. Miss these dates together with y'all volition postulate to conform collection from long term storage exterior London.

Paintings inwards the NEAC 2012 Exhibition

Presentation Standards required

I don't quite empathise why the webpage brief for this exhibition gives around but non all the data y'all MUST know every bit to how locomote must live presented. At acquaint data is dissever betwixt a webpage together with a leaflet - together with around is contradictory!

Works delivered for choice must live exhibition-ready. If y'all don't desire your locomote to live rejected because of its frame (which happens to a greater extent than ofttimes than y'all powerfulness think) it's advisable to (a) review the images of locomote hanging on the wall inwards yesteryear exhibitions to reckon the styles on locomote which is selected together with (b) to utilization a neutral coloured frame
Metal together with clip frames are inadmissable. Frames or stretchers should live substantial plenty to withstand mirror plating together with 12mm, size half-dozen screws for hanging purposes. Note "or stretchers" i.e. recognition that non all locomote must live framed. In do it agency gallery wrapped canvass alongside overnice edges!
All locomote has to live submitted unwrapped together with no packing materials volition live stored. The artwork goes guide from delivery to beingness stacked. If using an independent courier y'all postulate to ensure that y'all brand arrangements almost the packing material, otherwise y'all could destination upward alongside needing to retrieve a motion icon alongside no packing material.
There should live no projections whatsoever from the backs of the frames to forestall harm to other work. This is to forestall 1 frame damaging another frame piece stacked. No liability is accepted should this hap together with artists are advised to convey out Insurance. My advice is to brand certain y'all utilization difficult rather than soft woods for your frame together with your frames volition remain inwards skillful shape for longer! The actually cracking thing almost the "no projections" dominion is y'all don't have got to recall where y'all pose your D rings together with motion icon cord!

Exhibition Awards/Prizes

NEAC has around meaning prizes. You tin give the sack see images of the locomote which won prizes last year on the NEAC website together with inwards my review.

The Doreen Mackintosh Critics' Prize (£5,000),
The David Messum Prize (£5,000),
The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association alongside The Arts Club (£500),
The Manya Igel Prize (£500),
The Prize of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers,
The NEAC Critics' Prize.

New English linguistic communication Art Club Drawing School Scholarships

Drawings yesteryear NEAC Drawing Scholars inwards the NEAC Annual Exhibition 2012

NEAC runs a Drawing School together with has sponsored Drawing Scholars for around time. If you;re interested this is what y'all postulate to do.

Apply yesteryear delivering a portfolio of plant to the Mall Galleries alongside a roofing letter, your address, electronic mail address together with a CV.
The portfolio may include sketchbooks together with small-scale photographs of work, but no paintings on canvass or framed works.
Receiving Days Fri four or Sat v Oct, 10am-5pm

Websites

Read to a greater extent than almost the Annual Exhibitions of the New English linguistic communication Art Club on Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark