Review: Seize Amongst Teeth 2012 - Artists Making Prints

I went to encounter the 2d Annual Exhibition of Review: RE Open - contemporary printmaking at the Bankside Gallery
29 Aug 2012).

I recommend it equally an exhibition worth visiting should you lot last inwards London earlier it ends on 15th September.  (Note that it is unopen all hateful solar daytime nine in addition to 10 September because of the Paralympics due to the The Paralympic Games Marathons in addition to the "Our Greatest Team Parade" which are both using The Mall)

American Trilogy (Centre) by Sir Peter Blake CBE RA
Black in addition to silverish diamond dust
silkscreen impress on newspaper with embossing
99 x 75cm Edition 150 (5 available)
£2,250

The notion is that the best operate selected from the opened upward submission is exhibited with a modest alternative of plant past times invited artists, chosen past times the panel of selectors - Francis Tinsley, Anne Desmet RA, Tom Hammick, Jane Hindley in addition to Lance Trevellyan. This yr those invited artists include Sir Peter Blake RA in addition to Barbara Rae RA.  I confess I respect it strange that a panel of selectors are too exhibiting their ain operate - I've non come upward across that 1 earlier except for fine art societies.  However this is an opened upward contest non the annual exhibition of an fine art society.

Selection of operate inwards BITE - the impress inwards the centre is past times Barbara Rae RA

All operate is for sale - in addition to this yr some of the (unframed) prints are too available for sale online via Artfinder - encounter The BITE Selection of express edition prints.


I looked dorsum at my review of this exhibition concluding yr - encounter Review: Bite - a NEW Contemporary Print Exhibition 24 August 2011 to encounter what the differences were betwixt concluding yr in addition to this - apart from the modify inwards selectors.

Like concluding year

• The operate on display is a really high standard. I establish it hard to country the deviation betwixt good known artists who brand prints in addition to everybody else.  The alone means I knew is when I recognised the names on the label announcing the championship in addition to who made it.  
• this is a exhibit which volition actually involvement those who similar drawing in addition to mark-making
• I'm soundless really puzzled equally to why to a greater extent than FBA artists who brand prints are non submitting their operate to this competition/exhibition and/or non getting selected.  There are members of the FBA fine art societies who are too members of the RE. Maybe wild animals or soundless life (I'm thinking of printers I like) doesn't respect favour with the alternative panel for this exhibition.

Selection of operate inwards BITE
the impress on the left is a digital print
I loved the impress summit centre - it somehow managed to expect but similar an eastern fabric
the impress bottom centre won a prize
the impress summit correct is past times 1 of the selectors of the RE Open

The deviation betwixt the exhibitions of BITE in addition to the RE Open

From the artistic perspective -  there's non a lot of deviation betwixt the ii exhibitions.  In a means it's compassion that they're non held at the same fourth dimension thence that to a greater extent than people who honey printmaking could convey a jolly proficient excuse to come upward to London to encounter BOTH exhibitions - in addition to perchance purchase some prints.  How almost a printmaking extravaganza at the same fourth dimension side past times side year?

I can't country which is the bigger exhibition because the catalogue of plant for the RE were non numbered.  I tin strength out country you lot that BITE has 243 prints on display.  That makes it a large exhibit - but non equally large equally concluding year's when 277 prints were on display.

Similarities

• Both were opened upward competitions 
• Both had alternative panels with prestigious members
• Both had invited works
• Both had/have an extremely high touchstone of contemporary print-making on display.

Differences

• I didn't written report every unmarried label inwards item - nevertheless I came away with the impression that at that topographic point were to a greater extent than leading border developments inwards printmaking inwards the RE Open.
• The ii major deficits of the RE Open to my ask heed were the lack of a decent catalogue in addition to the fact that none of the prints were identified on a website equally beingness "for sale".
• BITE has a vastly superior catalogue.  It's printed inwards colour, contains images of every impress in addition to is priced at £3.00 which to my ask heed is a bargain.
• BITE has operate for sale online.  It's non all the images inwards the exhibition - but it's a start.
• For the RE Open the selectors chose the prints they wanted to hang - in addition to thence these were hung inwards a group.  If the prints for BITE were chosen past times private selectors I couldn't country from either the catalogue or the hang equally they appeared to last mixed upward - fifty-fifty though some of the labels indicated that some artists were invited past times a specific fellow member of the alternative panel.  While the Mall Galleries hang was fine, on the whole I preferred the Bankside hang - it was to a greater extent than coherent.  
• The exhibition at the Mall charges for entry unless you lot come upward into the normal categories of people who gain costless admission (FBA members etc) - whereas the Bankside was costless entry

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