Royal Guild Of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2012 - Telephone Telephone For Entries

This is a reminder that the deadline for registration as well as digital entries to The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2012 is 23 Feb 2012.

It gets a niggling busy! Just a few of the patrons as well as friends who attended the Private View
of the Annual Exhibition 2011 of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters

One of the benefits of the exhibition is that it is extremely good attended past times patrons as well as those who conduct keep been painted. The PV ever has the most people assist of whatever of the fine art societies or the competitions that I attend at the Mall galleries - the photograph taken inwards a higher house is AFTER the statement of the prizes as well as closed to people conduct keep left!

Those that committee too seem to similar to arrive at it i time again - as well as the Commission desk is ever really busy on the PV twenty-four hr menstruation as well as subsequently! Certainly it's an fantabulous exhibition to see if you lot are contemplating commissioning a portrait.

If you'd similar to read to a greater extent than close past times exhibitions - as well as run into closed to of the industrial plant which conduct keep been accepted inwards the past times - run into my reviews of exhibitions inwards recent years which are at the cease of this post.

If you'd similar to know what you lot postulate to arrive at to locomote into this year's exhibition - read on!

When is the exhibition?

The exhibition is held at the Mall Galleries betwixt 3 - xviii May 2012.

It volition survive opened upwardly 10am-5pm every twenty-four hr menstruation including weekends as well as populace holidays as well as opened upwardly until 7pm on Th tenth as well as Th 17th May. It closes at 5pm on Fri xviii May.

Who tin enter?

There is no historic menstruation or geographical constraint on who tin enter. This exhibition has attracted entries from international artists inwards the past.

What tin you lot enter

First, I advise you lot select a expect at the exhibition catalogues - which show portraits painted my members of the Society

Artists, the Society as well as the Gallery all arrive at goodness from the pre-screening due to reduced costs of processing as well as treatment artwork.

For the 2012 exhibition, artists tin bypass the digital pre-screening physical care for as well as manus inwards artwork on the submission day.

Registration as well as Fees

Download the Registration Pack
Submission fee: £12 per function irrespective of size
OR £6 per function for artists nether the historic menstruation of 35
(no farther hanging fee)

Digital submission

The basic physical care for as well as requirements for digital images are every bit follows

register as well as obtain creative individual login
upload a digital epitome of all industrial plant you lot innovation to submit

Image files may survive JPG (recommended) or PNG at no to a greater extent than than 4MB inwards size
There should survive no symbols (such every bit *'()?<>" etc) inwards the filename of your image

The organisation volition select varying resolutions as well as epitome dimensions
those which transcend the initial pre-screening volition survive invited to submit function to the gallery inwards London

International artists

International artists postulate to bargain amongst a carrier which volition reveal the artwork, shop the packing fabric as well as repack it at the cease of the choice physical care for or the exhibition if the function has non been selected or sold. This service is non available at the Mall Galleries

Dates as well as Deadlines

The submission is digital amongst online entry via the Mall Galleries website. See

the Mall Galleries website for the formal Call for Entries and General Guidelines for Entries
my transportation for to a greater extent than details close this - NEW two-stage digital pre-selection physical care for for FBA Exhibitions)

	Dates as well as Deadlines
Registration & digital submission opens	1 Nov 2011
Registration & digital submission closes	12pm 23 Feb 2012
Notification of pre-selection (on Mall Galleries website)	Tuesday 1 March 2012
Receiving Days (this twelvemonth includes submission past times those who conduct keep NOT submitted function for pre-selection)	Friday xvi March & Sabbatum 17 March 2012, 10am-5pm
Regional hand-in dates	check this link
Bristol	Royal West of England Academy, Bristol on get-go receiving twenty-four hr menstruation from 12pm – 3pm. Contact Art Moves
Surrey, Sussex as well as Kent	Contact Art Moves
Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow, Dumfries, Carlisle, Kendal, Preston, Lancaster, Penrith, Manchester, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Birmingham And Doncaster	Contact Picture Post straight at to the lowest degree ii weeks earlier our London receiving days
Penzance, Totnes, Exeter & Southampton	Contact South Hams Express
Collection of unaccepted work	Sabbatum 31 March or Wed 4 Apr 2012, 10am-5pm
Exhibition (open to public)	Private View: Wed 2 May Opens to public: Th 3 May, 10am-5pm including weekends Closes: Fri xviii May, 5pm
Collection of unsold work	Thursday fifteen March 2012, 10am - 5pm

Awards as well as Prizes

The Society has a set out of pregnant prizes - the most valuable of which is the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture

The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture: £10,000 addition the Society’s Gold Medal awarded for the most distinguished icon inwards the Society’s annual exhibition.
The de Laszlo Foundation Prize: £3,000 addition a Silver Medal for the most outstanding portrait past times an creative individual aged 35 years or under.
The Prince of Wales’s Award for Portrait Drawing: £2,000 as well as framed certificate for function inwards a recognised drawing medium.
The Changing Faces (Commission) Prize: The Changing Faces Prize is awarded to the creative individual whose portrait best conveys the loose energy of their subject, the directness of their gaze as well as an mental attitude that exudes openness as well as confidence. The Prize is a £2,000 committee to arrive at a portrait of a individual amongst an unusual-looking human face upwardly for the Changing Faces Collection.

Individual awards cannot survive won past times the same creative individual inside iii years.

Who tin utilise for membership?

As amongst many of the national fine art societies, election to membership of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters is based alone on the character of an artist's work.

What you lot postulate to do: The application is non a walk inwards the common as well as it's non based purely on the function submitted to the exhibition - therefore you lot postulate to brand certain you lot conduct keep a decent portfolio of function earlier applying.

If you lot want to apply, the normal physical care for is every bit follows;

Submit function to the Annual Exhibition
Write APPLICANT at the top of your entry form.
That's it - until you lot larn a letter......

The Selection Committee volition therefore create upwardly one's heed whether or non to add together your advert to the Candidates’ list. If selected, Candidates may survive invited to submit farther supporting function to the Annual General Meeting, next the closed of the exhibition, when elections select place. Candidates volition survive informed of the results of the election past times post. Names unremarkably rest on the Candidates’ listing for iii years, after which, i twelvemonth must elapse earlier reapplication, unless the Selection Committee recommends an extension.

What you lot don't postulate to do!

No Proposers or Seconders are required.

Past Exhibitions

If you'd similar to read close past times exhibitions run into my reviews listed below.

Tomorrow I'm off to run into the preview of the Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery - which opens on the ninth February. Don't fille it!

Links: Portraiture - Resources for Artists

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