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Rws Contemporary Watercolour Opened Upward Contest 2014 & Associate Membership

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This is a quick reminder for all those domestic as well as international artists who aspire to larn members of the Royal Watercolour Society.

This twelvemonth the Royal Watercolour Society has separated :

Previously the 2 lead keep happened at the same fourth dimension with some really confusing as well as no dubiety irritating timetables for the artists making an application for election as well as entering piece of job to the competition.

That said I'd soundless await the RWS to pay a lot of attending to the people whose piece of job gets selected as well as accepted for this really prestigious juried exhibition.

RWS Open 2013 at the Bankside Gallery

RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2014

The RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition is an annual opened upwards contest for artists working inwards water-­‐ based media. It is run yesteryear the Royal Watercolour Society to encourage fresh approaches to watercolour painting, as well as to showcase the latest innovations inwards the medium. Any professional person creative individual who is non already a Member of the Society may enter.

IMPORTANT! 
The Entry Pack is to a greater extent than helpful than most - mainly because it's non trying to cram it all onto 2 sides of A4! Thank goodness for fine art societies which lead keep realised that clarity is to a greater extent than of import inwards the digital historic menstruum than how few sides of newspaper you lot lead keep to print!

Note that the entry pack is based on final twelvemonth where the entry to the contest as well as application for election were horribly tangled up. They directly lead keep 2 dissever pages on the website as well as 2 dissever application packs as well as the processes run at unlike times of the year.

RWS Contemporary Watercolour Open Competition 2014 - Entry Form

The large bonus of this competition


The large bonus is that the opened upwards entry is non competing with members' piece of job for infinite on the walls of the gallery. The opened upwards contest is only that - a contest with non-members to larn their piece of job hung.

Plus the members lead keep 3 exhibitions a twelvemonth - inwards the Spring, Autumn as well as closed to Christmas/New Year - which agency election agency your piece of job gets seen to a greater extent than oft than inwards some other fine art societies.

The Alphabetical Anomaly


Last twelvemonth I highlighted things inwards my review of the exhibition which I've rarely had to comment on before.

To live frank - at that spot was something downright strange nigh final year's selection.  I counted the surnames of selected artists as well as matched them to the firstly one-half as well as minute one-half of the alphabet. The next is NOT statistically normal.
It's non commons for surnames starting with letters inwards the firstly one-half of the alphabet to comprise nearly 80% of the industrial plant exhibited. Maybe adjacent twelvemonth start the pick procedure at the other cease of the alphabet?
In addition, I was NOT impressed with some of the industrial plant selected for the exhibition as well as this was a sentiment which was really evidently shared yesteryear at to the lowest degree some of those who hung the exhibition.

Let's promise the selectors this twelvemonth are fully refreshed from their seasonal activities, on their toes as well as mindful of the the withdraw to ensure that those artists whose surnames come upwards at the cease of the alphabet do non larn left out because there's no room left inwards the exhibition.

The RWS must too live really mindful of the fact that some artists tin brand their paintings expression a lot to a greater extent than attractive on a digital file so they are inwards reality.  To my heed the exclusively thing a responsible fine art gild tin do inwards these circumstances is to decline all industrial plant submitted which vary significantly from the industrial plant submitted online.  I'm sure starting fourth dimension to run into why the RA's category of "selected but non hung" makes sense.

Having said that - read on to run into what the RWS has to state nigh this twelvemonth as well as the measures to address these issues.

Paintings inwards the RWS Open 2013

What tin live entered 

  • All paintings inwards water-­‐based media, including watercolour, pen as well as ink, acrylic as well as gouache are eligible, regardless of way or dependent area matter, equally long equally they are painted on paper.
  • The icon must lead keep been completed inwards the yesteryear iv years yesteryear the creative individual entering it.
  • The icon must non live larger than 100cm x 100cm when framed.  

Who tin enter


This contest is OPEN to
Any professional person creative individual who is non already a Member of the Society may enter.
By implication, that means
  • people who are NOT members of the Royal Watercolour Society
  • people who do NOT alive or piece of job inwards the UK
  • people who are NOT amateur / hobby artists
  • artists of whatever age (not indicated - but no boundary indicated either) 

Commission as well as Fees


For those confused yesteryear VAT, the way the committee industrial plant is that the Gallery volition accuse 40% + VAT of 20% when selling a painting. That agency on a £1,000 painting, the Gallery volition bring £400 as well as include £80 inwards their VAT render to HM Revenue as well as Customs - which agency you lot larn £520. Which agency your net income is £520 minus the travel/courier as well as framing expenses as well as entry fee of £14.  You write downwards your costs to marketing!

Prizes


You don't larn inwards this contest to win prizes - although at that spot are some. You larn inwards it to impress your friends that you lot got your piece of job into an RWS present and.or to impress the members with your piece of job as well as render back upwards for an eventual application for membership! :)

Special points to note

I'm trying to pick out hither aspects which are NOT the same equally the entry conditions for other fine art competitions.  Some are a jolly practiced thought as well as should apply to other competitions also!
  • Amateur artists are non eligible.  The piece of job of the words "professional artist" may maybe withdraw clarification - yet it's clear to me that they desire people to larn inwards the contest who earn their living yesteryear beingness an artist.
  • Neutral rules! Ignore at your peril.
Paintings must live framed as well as glazed to live included inwards the exhibition. Frames must live of professional person lineament as well as should live white, natural or dark wood, with a white or cream coloured mount.
  • Poor lineament is out. It looks really much similar final year's "oddities" volition non live dorsum this year. There's a really clear disceptation that industrial plant where the framing is non upwards to criterion as well as requirements volition non live hung - nor volition paintings which differ significantly from the digital image.
Poorly presented paintings volition non live exhibited. This includes paintings inwards plastic, metal, or clip frames; paintings with tinted, non-­‐reflective or no glass; or whatever icon that differs significantly from the photograph that was entered.
You tin review yesteryear posts of yesteryear exhibitions inwards the links at the cease of this spider web log post.

Election to Associate Membership

You tin download the Application Pack for Associate Membership 2014

Applicants are invited to submit 3 framed, glazed paintings as well as a portfolio of supporting piece of job to live judged yesteryear RWS Members. If elected, you lot volition larn an Associate Member of the RWS, eligible for advertisement to total Membership later on 3 years.
The chip you lot won't notice inwards the application pack is that the convention is you lot tin live a fellow member of the RWS or the RI but non both. This is referenced inwards the election pack equally follows

providing they do non belong to some other London watercolour society
Personally I don't empathize what yesteryear difficulties lead keep to do with acquaint membership.

Here's the nuts as well as bolts of the application process
  • Return your completed application form, a CV, a banking concern check for fee of £40 as well as a stamped address envelope to Bankside Gallery yesteryear Mon 10 March, 5pm
  • Deliver 3 framed paintings as well as a portfolio of small-scale watercolour sketches, studies, drawings as well as sketchbooks to back upwards your application to Bankside Gallery on Fri 21 March, 11am-7pm 
  • All piece of job must live on newspaper as well as must lead keep been painted inside the yesteryear iv years. 
  • Your paintings must live professionally framed as well as glazed, as well as must non transcend 1.5m x 1.5m.
  • Please ensure each icon is clearly labelled on the dorsum with your name.
  • All submitted paintings must live available for sale - if you lot are elected the RWS volition select i of your framed paintings for the RWS Diploma Collection. The remaining 2 paintings volition live exhibited for sale inwards the RWS Spring Exhibition at Bankside Gallery (Friday 28 March – Sabbatum 26 April).

Past Exhibitions


You tin review my spider web log posts below nigh some of the previous exhibitions below. These include gallery shots of industrial plant inwards the exhibition as well as links to the websites of prizewinning artists.

For some argue this exhibition's association with wintertime months oft finds me knocked for 6 yesteryear some põrnikas or other - or otherwise curtailing exhibition visits due to really bad weather condition as well as my dodgy feet/balance - thence the gaps inwards some of the posts below. It's sure an fantabulous exhibition as well as i I normally I endeavor as well as larn to run into if at all possible.

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