Society Of Botanical Artists - Annual Exhibition 2014 - Telephone Outcry Upwards For Entries

Botanical artists have got only nether ii months to acquire our entries prepare for this year's Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists - which is opened upward to entries from both non-members in addition to international artists.  This post is an overview of the telephone telephone for entries in addition to the process.

Call for Entries - Society of Botanical Artists
Botanical Garden Annual Exhibition 2014

Note that this year, both the Receiving Day in addition to Annual Exhibition are afterward than usual.

The Receiving Day for entries for about concluding year's Receiving Day.

The theme of this year's exhibition is The Botanical Garden. It will include close 700 works of botanical art:

• at Westminster Central Hall, Storey's Gate, London SW1H 9NH in addition to is 
• between Friday, ninth to Sun 18th May 2014 (Daily from 11am to 5pm including Sundays)
• open to Earth - admission FREE

Below you lot volition find:

• the fundamental points for those wanting to acquire inwards the Exhibition.  
• links to previous posts on this weblog which include images hence you lot tin come across the type in addition to character of run which is accepted for exhibition and/or wins prizes
• links to my resources for botanical artists

"The Botanic Garden" - theme for the 2014 Exhibition

For the championship of ‘Botanical Garden’, nosotros hateful the world’s gardens: tropical or hothouses, orchards, wetlands, wastelands, vegetables, herbaceous borders, the arboretum, rose gardens, alpine slopes, desert plants, from oceans to ponds, wild flowers, prairies in addition to grasslands, stone gardens, woods in addition to forests, to advert a few. It is a remove a opportunity for artists to portray, in addition to visitors to understand, the many sites where dissimilar plants tin live seen. Special areas inside the exhibition volition display works inwards dissimilar categories: for instance, inwards a cottage garden, flowers in addition to vegetables traditionally grow together; inwards the bog garden, exclusively moisture-loving plants volition survive; inwards the dessert, sun-seekers volition flourish. Since plants are really versatile, some plants volition gibe into several categories.

You don't have got to submit run which complies alongside the theme - all the same works which practise brand for a to a greater extent than interesting Exhibition.

How to acquire inwards the Exhibition

The Society of Botanical Artists has an informative in addition to accessible webpage

• "how to exhibit" is for those wanting to submit to artwork to its Annual Exhibition 
• You tin download the Conditions of Exhibition data canvass for 2014
• the same page every bit good deals alongside how to acquire an Associate Member (see my previous post How to acquire a fellow member of the Society of Botanical Artists re. what you lot have got to practise to acquire an Associate Member - in addition to and then Member)

Who tin submit work?

This is an Open Exhibition which attracts entries from all over the footing - partly because it has a set-up which makes it easier for international artists to submit work.  Ask nicely in addition to I'll bring a photograph of your run hanging inwards the exhibition if selected! :)

(Seriously - if you lot alive overseas in addition to your run is accepted delight practise arrive comport on if you'd similar your run photographed inwards the exhibition).

What variety of run tin live entered?

• Eligible work: pictures, sculpture, miniature work, drinking glass engraving, ceramics, jewellery, carving, metal-work
• Eligible Media: watercolour, pencil, coloured pencils, pastel, oil, gouache, mixed media etc  (photography in addition to digital works are non eligible for the fourth dimension being)
• Subjects: may live life-size, reduced or enlarged.  
• Traditional botanical instance in addition to found portraiture; (read the Federal Reserve notation close fungi)
• works reflecting habitat in addition to environment. 
• Originality: all run must live master copy in addition to executed past times the creative somebody who signs the submission form. Copies of whatever run past times whatever other artists, living or dead, could lawsuit inwards prosecution. 
• Size of subject: dependent area affair may live life-size, reduced or enlarged
• Size of work: 
• maximum size of run of 48" on longest length
• multiple works intended to hang together must non locomote past times 48" assuming a 1" gap betwixt hung work
• size constraints for miniatures are: 7" x 5" for miniature paintings in addition to 8" for Sculpture inwards whatever dimension.
• Number of works: 
• Up to 5 works - ALL must live dependent area to alternative in addition to for sale
• Non members seeking associate membership MUST submit 5 works
• a maximum of 4 works past times non members volition live hung

What is the creative somebody responsible for?

The creative somebody is responsible for:

• identifying whatever especial characteristic of the run or explanation of it alongside abide by to the theme to the SBA
• copyright of the artwork - all run must live the master copy run of the artist
• the payment of whatever importation charges or duties
• all payment of VAT if the creative somebody is liable in addition to registered (no VAT is charged past times the Society on whatever sales)
• making certain those delivering the artwork practise hence on the correct twenty-four hours in addition to at the correct time
• arranging for the unpacking of artwork on delivery in addition to packing of run on collection
• insurance of the artwork inwards transit in addition to during the exhibition
• distribution of individual sentiment invitations to their collectors

The Receiving Day

Receiving twenty-four hours is 17 March 2014 - at the Aldersgate Room inwards the basement of Westminster Central Hall. 

IMPORTANT: 

• The entry schedule is four-part self-carbonised 
• It's ONLY available from the Executive Secretary by post on receipt of a self-addressed envelope (use A4 or A5). Check that you lot utilization an appropriate pen to consummate this hence that the carbonisation works on all 4 copies
• To have the exhibition entry schedule you lot request to transportation a stamped, addressed envelope to Pamela Henderson, Executive Secretary SBA; Tel: 01747 825718 Email: info[at]soc-botanical-artists.org. Please Federal Reserve notation - Pam is extremely helpful in addition to really good organised!

What you lot request to do

• Framed in addition to properly labelled artwork in addition to sculpture needs to live brought to the basement of Westminster Central Hall together PLUS
• A completed four-part exhibition schedule (entry form), 
• artworks and 
• a banking concern check or cash for the submission fees. 
• An explanation of no to a greater extent than than 200 words on 1 canvass of newspaper attached to your shape should explicate your submission inwards relation to the theme of "The Botanic Garden" 
• Westminster Central Hall is to a greater extent than accessible than most - but don't assume it's slow to drib off past times car.
• The nearest hugger-mugger stations are Westminster in addition to St James Park
• There is a machine commons inwards Abingdon Square in addition to metred parking - all the same this is a really busy utilization of London for parking in addition to ti's highly probable all spaces volition have got gone hence don't assume you lot tin commons nearby. Unloading should live possible exterior the Hall but exclusively for a really brief catamenia but this is dependent on the traffic warden. 
• If coming from exterior London it's in all likelihood improve to commons on the outskirts of London in addition to choose grip of a subway scheme for the residue of the journey.

Postal / Courier Submissions

• The Society does NOT bring works past times post or carriage
• You tin all the same submit works via a carrier/courier 
• ONLY artwork arriving on the receiving twenty-four hours ONLY volition live accepted. Couriers are expected to unpack the work. 
• Overseas artists tin brand arrangements to submit run for framing inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland - all the same you lot request to contact Pam close precisely how these arrangements run in addition to the dates it needs to attain the UK.

More close this Exhibition in addition to Botanical Art

Below you lot tin uncovering links to:

• past posts close this exhibition on this blog - alongside photographs of the run inwards the exhibitions courtesy of the SBA.
• my websites which furnish "resources for botanical artists"

2013 exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists: "The Language of Flowers" - Call for Entries
• Prizewinners at Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2013
• Other prizewinners at the SBA Annual Exhibition 2013

2012 exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries - an overview of what's required for those wanting to acquire inwards run for the Annual Exhibition
• How to acquire a fellow member of the Society of Botanical Artists - what you lot have got to practise to acquire an Associate Member - in addition to and then Member
• Society of Botanical Artists Submission Day - in addition to a botanical egg - a motion-picture exhibit of the procedure on Submission Day
• 27th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists - which reviews the show
• Certificates of Botanical Merit at SBA 2012 - identifies the artists in addition to images which this yr were awarded a CBM
• 2012 Prizewinners at Society of Botanical Art's Annual Exhibition
• A 'Making H5N1 Mark' Profile of Fiona Strickland about an interview alongside Fiona Strickland

2011 exhibition

• Entry weather condition for Society of Botanical Artists
• Review: Society of Botanical Artists Exhibition 2011
• Certificates of Botanical Merit at SBA Exhibition 2011
• Botanical Art nether fire

2010 exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists - Silver Jubilee
• Society of Botanical Artists 2010 Prizewinners
• Society of Botanical Artists 2010 #1
• Botanical fine art inwards coloured pencils

2009 exhibition

• Exhibition Review: Society of Botanical Artists #1
• Exhibition Review: Society of Botanical Artists #2
• The biggest exhibition of coloured pencil artwork inwards the UK

2008 Exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists - The Botanical Palette exhibition

2007 Exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists - Flowers in addition to Gardens Exhibition 2007

2006 Exhibition

• Review of the SBA Exhibition (2006)

My botanical fine art 'resources for artists' websites

Resources for Botanical Artists - knowledge in addition to techniques

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