Ra Summertime Exhibition 2014 Goes Totally Digital!

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

This twelvemonth the RA's Summer Exhibition entry procedure is GOING DIGITAL! As inward it's non only the architecture as well as sculpture - ALL submissions volition inward time to come live on via digital entry.

Artists volition solely live on able consummate as well as submit their entry forms online via a dedicated website. During the online submission process, artists volition live on asked to upload digital photographs of their artworks.

READ ON to honour out about:

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

timeline as well as telephone commutation dates
how to locomote into
how to submit a query - non covered yesteryear FAQs

RA Summer Exhibition 2013
drawings, paintings as well as sculpture inward only 1 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 inward every bit before long every bit possible after the digital submission starts on vi January

Digital submission ALWAYS generates H5N1 LOT MORE ENTRIES than the normal hand-delivered entry system. It's non ridiculous to approximate that it has the range to at to the lowest degree double the publish of entries.........
Which is why the RA cause got for the really foremost CAPPED the entries at 12,000. This is a rounding of the normal publish of entries they receive. In other words they've moved amongst the times inward damage of converting to digital entry - but they're non prepared to necktie the pick panel upwards for days on terminate if they teach swamped amongst digital entries.

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

It's non optional. Whether you lot similar it or non it's locomote out the measure method of eliminating those unlikely to construct the foremost cut.
It's also a actually peachy way of cutting downward on a lot of treatment costs for both organisers as well as artists.
If you lot don't cause got a reckoner as well as the skills for doing photography as well as the cognition of how to teach the photograph as well as application shape completed online thence you lot demand to start finding mortal to assist you lot now!

TIP #3: Make certain you lot cause got got a actually fantabulous ikon of your work

Each ikon must non locomote yesteryear 3MB as well as should live on 150 dpi (dpi = dots per inch. This is non the highest resolution but is perfectly acceptable for viewing online. The images inward this post are 72 dpi as well as 550 pixels wide)
Don't give selectors a actually slow argue to decline your operate e.g. the ikon is poor, also small, does non stand upwards for the operate well. Make certain the ikon is good lit, large as well as fantabulous - as well as conforms to the digital ikon criteria.
Don't overhype your operate inward guild to teach it pre-selected. Chances are you lot mightiness only terminate upwards amongst an expensive pecker for getting the operate to London as well as non existence selected for the exhibition

TIP #4: Be clear on the dates as well as deadlines as well as teach them marked upwards on your digital or newspaper format calendar now.

This twelvemonth you lot volition live on working to a completely different laid of dates if you lot desire to construct certain your artwork has a direct chances of existence selected!
That means:

if you lot are to teach your operate inward earlier the cap is employed you lot demand to submit every bit before long every bit possible after sixth January.
If you lot leave of absence submission every bit belatedly every bit the park deadline you lot run a really large hazard of non existence able to submit inward 2014 (see foremost tip higher upwards every bit to why!)

TIP #5: The measure of entry re. fine fine art prints as well as photos is really high.

Each twelvemonth the measure of entry for photographs as well as fine fine art prints keeps getting improve as well as better.
I wishing the same could live on said for drawings as well as paintings - some are peachy as well as some are non thence great!

RA Summer Exhibition 2013 - Some of the Fine Art Prints

The novel procedure for drawings, paintings as well as prints

While the application shape has been submitted via a digital procedure for some fourth dimension - the artwork nonetheless had to live on delivered unless it was a sculpture or architectural piece. Artists amongst drawings, fine fine art prints, photographs or paintings nonetheless had to construct certain their artwork arrived on the allotted twenty-four hr menses inside the specified fourth dimension period.

If that meant standing inward the rain, you lot wrapped upwards your artwork as well as did only that!

The Academy acknowledges the back upwards as well as involvement that artists cause got shown for the exhibition inward submitting their operate inward the past, but it is also aware of the huge efforts, physical every bit good every bit financial, which artists construct on an annual footing to convey their operate to the Academy for the pick process. It is clear that a growing publish of artists would welcome a less arduous organization of digital entry for the foremost circular of judging.RA Letter to onetime Summer Exhibition Entrants

H5N1 novel screening process

In 2014, at that spot is going to live on a foremost circular screening process. What this agency 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 foremost served" basis. (That agency 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 teach your artwork submitted every bit business office of the foremost 12,000 you lot won't live on able to enter!)
the pick panel volition review the c.12,000 digital images (just every bit they cause got been doing for sculpture as well as architecture for a while)
the pick panel volition create a shortlist of 4,000 entries eligible to deed frontward to the minute round. This much reduced publish relates to the artwork which nonetheless has to live on delivered to the RA for farther scrutiny yesteryear the judges.

The 2014 Process - Timeline as well as how to enter

Key Dates

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

6 Jan - RA opens construct novel website for consummate digital submission of entries i.e. consummate submission of your online entry as well as digital images (this twelvemonth you lot may non live on making the trip to London!). Tasks include:

open an online account
enter the details of your 1 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) fourteen Feb 2014 - RA closes online entry (or EARLIER if to a greater extent than than 12,000 industrial plant cause got already been submitted? It's currently unclear whether the cap applies earlier or after the deadline for entries)
17 March - results of foremost circular screening procedure (judging from digital images) Notification volition live on via email.

Submission - Round 2 - Screening delivered industrial plant on shortlist

Delivery of shortlisted works selected from digital images are pretty much the same kind of dates every bit before

11 as well as fourteen Apr - Works nether glass
15 as well as sixteen Apr - Oils, acrylics as well as 2 dimensional industrial 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 – vi June industrial plant non selected from shortlisted works
22 May – vi June industrial plant non selected for terminal 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 inward the RA's Frequently Asked Questions (372 KB) document
read the email to previous exhibitors sent yesteryear the Secretary as well as Chief Executive of the Royal Academy, explaining the process

To live on notified yesteryear e-mail when the entry shape goes on sale, shipping an e-mail to EntryForm@royalacademy.org.uk

Who tin enter

Anybody tin enter. There is no upper or lower historic menses limit. You don't cause got to alive inward the Britain or live on trained artist.

Specific queries

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

Summer Exhibition 2014

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

Links:

Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition 2014
Making H5N1 Mark: 10 reasons to see the RA Summer Exhibition 2013
Making H5N1 Mark: How to locomote into the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2013 (I attain an annual post every year)