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Call For Entries: Rws Contemporary Watercolour Contest 2012

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I'm rattling pleased to run into that the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) has relaunched its major Annual Open Competition every bit the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition and is calling for (digital) entries.  I missed the exhibition lastly twelvemonth due to beingness unable to walk whatever distance thus am peculiarly looking frontward to seeing it this year.

The Royal Watercolour Society is the oldest watercolour lodge inwards the world.  Its domicile is the Bankside Gallery, on the southward depository fiscal establishment of the River Thames - correct side yesteryear side to Tate Modern.

This way that inwards 2012 the TWS volition cause got 3 major exhibitions
A rainy hateful solar daytime inwards Perugia amongst cars yesteryear David Paskett PRWS
watercolour together with pen
exhibited at the RWS Spring Exhibition 2011
(you tin sentiment to a greater extent than of the President's operate on the Bankside Gallery website)
This post:
Note inwards especial that although the RWS is flexible near the nature of the watercolour media that tin live used inwards artwork submitted to the exhibition, it is insistent that:
  • all industrial plant must live on paper - thus hopefully we'll run into rather less of the impasto acrylic industrial plant which were trying to hold off similar oils together with which were, to my hear at to the lowest degree quite out of house inwards a watercolour exhibition
  • all industrial plant must initially live submitted online using a digital paradigm together with an online form.  
  • artists submitting operate volition demand access to an e-mail address to live able to larn into - simply it can, amongst their permission, live ane belonging to a household unit of measurement fellow member or friend!
The aim of the Open Competition

The aim of the contest is to encourage conception and experimentation inwards watercolour.
The RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition is an annual contest opened upwards to non-Members. It aims to encourage conception together with experimentation inwards watercolour painting, spanning operate on newspaper inwards watercolour, acrylic, gouache, pen & ink together with watercolour mixed media. Artists may larn into upwards to 3 industrial plant which, if selected, are exhibited at Bankside Gallery, the domicile of the Royal Watercolour Society.
Works exhibited at the Bankside Gallery in the RWS Open 2010
all paintings copyright the artist
Who tin larn into the competition?
  • The contest is opened upwards to non-members of the Royal Watercolour Society.
What to submit
  • Details are available in 
  • All paintings inwards water-based media on paper are eligible, including acrylic, gouache, watercolour together with pen together with ink. (note the emphasis "on paper")
  • There is no restriction on trend or champaign of report matter.
  • The industrial plant should cause got been painted inside iv years of submission 
  • Paintings must non hand 100cm x 100cm when framed. 
  • A maximum of 3 industrial plant may live submitted at a toll of £12 per piece. 
  • All operate must live for sale.
  • The industrial plant must live the master copy operate of the artist and copyright must live vested inwards the named artist. [I recommend that whatever creative individual who is unclear near the pregnant of "original work" together with copyright see Art competitions together with copyright - the AWS Gold Medal debate 08.09.08. and AWS gilded medal tilt - the concluding word 17.08.10]
You tin review my weblog posts below near some of the previous exhibitions below. These include gallery shots of industrial plant inwards the exhibition together with links to the websites of prizewinning artists.

How to enter
  • All entries are to live submitted digitally through the RWS website http://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/competitions.aspx
  • This is the page amongst the online form - yous volition require an e-mail address to proceed.
  • The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 11th Jan 2012.
  • Advice is given inwards the instructions on how to exercise a digital photograph eg
    • works should NOT live photographed through glass
    • crop the operate to take away all background which is non the artwork
  • Successful entrants volition live notified on 27th Jan 2012 via e-mail and notification via the RWS website
How to submit work

All artwork must live properly framed together with labelled.  Requirements are for a uncomplicated monochrome woods frame with a white or cream coloured mount.  Mirror plates should live fixed either side.  All industrial plant must besides live glazed simply non-reflective or tinted drinking glass is non permitted.  Works exceeding 100cm x 100cm when framed volition live rejected.

All master copy paintings must live delivered to the Bankside Gallery on Sunday 19th or Mon 20th February for hanging inwards the exhibition which opens on 24th February 2012 (with a PV on the 23rd)

Regional collections prior to this appointment are besides available.

Important dates
  • SUBMIT:  Wednesday 11th January - Upload your digital submission to the RWS website yesteryear Midnight 
  • GET THE RESULT:  Friday 27th January - Find out your final result on the RWS website
  • DELIVERY: Sunday 19th / Mon 20th February, 11am-6pm - Deliver selected operate to Bankside Gallery - either straight or via regional collections at an before date
  • PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday 23rd February, 6-8pm 
  • COLLECT:  Thursday 15th March, 1-7pm - Collect whatever unsold operate at the goal of the exhibition.  (This is rather anti-social for people who don't alive inwards London together with who operate normal working hours!)
Two watercolour paintings yesteryear Sarah Armstrong Jones
exhibited at the Bankside Gallery in the RWS Open 2010

The Judges

The 2012 judges volition be 
Selected works
  • A listing of selected paintings volition live published on the RWS website on Fri 27th January 2012.
  • Successful entrants volition have an email:
    • notifying them that their operate has been selected for exhibition
    • requirements inwards honour of framing together with delivery to the gallery
The exhibition

The RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2012 Exhibition volition select house at the Bankside Gallery betwixt 24th Feb together with 14th March 2012.

I'm non sure whether Blackfriars Tube station volition live reopen yesteryear then.  If not, the gallery is less than a 10 infinitesimal walk from St Pauls Undergound Station.  Walk southward of St Pauls, across the Millennium Bridge together with yesteryear Tate Modern.

How to apply to move a Member of the RWS

The RWS is ane of the most prestigious fine art societies inwards the world and all Members of the Royal Watercolour Society are elected on merit, inwards a tradition reaching dorsum almost ii hundred years.  

Naturally yous cause got a few hurdles to jump before yous are eligible for membership.  

One of the things yous cause got to determine correct at the outset is whether yous desire to move a fellow member of the Royal Watercolour Society or The Royal Institute of Painters inwards Water Colours.  You don't seem to live able to live a fellow member of both.
The election of novel Members takes house each outflow together with is opened upwards to all professional person artists who paint in watercolour, providing that they exercise non belong to some other lodge of painters inwards watercolours in London. 
  • All New Members are elected yesteryear the electrical current Membership of the Society, based on the character of their operate alone.  Initially artists move Associate Members. 
  • Application forms for the elections are available from Bankside Gallery inwards the autumn
  • Elections usually select house inwards March.  In 2012 the elections volition select house on Sabbatum 17th March together with all decisions are reached yesteryear bulk vote inwards a secret ballot of electrical current Members. 
  • Artists wishing to position themselves frontward for election are asked to submit 3 framed industrial plant together with a portfolio of supporting industrial plant for consideration.
The Society accepts operate inwards watercolour, pen & ink, gouache together with acrylic that is mixed with water together with is on paper. All submitted operate must cause got been made inside the lastly iv years.  

There are special arrangements for review of artwork submitted every bit usage of the application together with election process.

Application: How to submit artwork for review
  • Return your completed application form, CV, SAE together with non-refundable fee of £40 yesteryear post to Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH before Fri 17th February (ie later yous know whether your operate has been accepted for this year's opened upwards exhibition). 
  • Deliver three framed, glazed paintings together with a portfolio of supporting work to the Bankside Gallery on Fri 16th March betwixt 11am together with 7pm. Note inwards especial that artwork volition non live accepted before or later this appointment together with tin non live accepted yesteryear post. 
  • You may accommodate for a instance or professional fine art courier to deliver together with unpack your operate inwards the Gallery on this date.
  • Framed paintings must non hand 1.5m x 1.5m. All ikon must live clearly labelled on the back.  
  • Successful applicants volition live required to donate ane of their framed paintings to the RWS's Diploma Collection which contains operate yesteryear members since its foundation inwards 1804.
  • The applicant's portfolio may incorporate small-scale watercolour sketches, studies, drawings, sketchbooks together with operate in progress. Supporting operate may live presented free or inwards clear sleeves, simply each item must cause got your name written on it inwards pencil. Your portfolio must besides live clearly labelled on the outside.  (In my sense of reviewing operate submitted to some other fine art society, artwork is removed from sleeves together with needs to live capable of identification to ensure it gets dorsum into the correct portfolio!)
  • Artwork together with portfolio tin live collected on Sunday 18th March betwixt 11am together with 7pm - when applicants are told the upshot of their application.
Success brings rights together with obligations.  Initially all successful applicants volition move Associate Members together with volition live entitled to usage the letters ARWS later their name.  However newly elected Associate Members are besides obliged to 
  • pay an annual subscription of £250
  • submit operate for sale to the Society’s exhibitions on a regular basis, or to come upwards before the Council who may consider rescinding Membership. 
A rattling strange timeline!

What's rattling strange near this is that the appointment for delivery of artwork relating to the review of candidates for election is ii days later the exhibition finishes on 14th March together with ane hateful solar daytime later whatever unsold industrial plant demand to live collected on 15th March!

It would live worth querying amongst the RWS whether industrial plant submitted for exhibition together with unsold tin live considered for an application without having to larn out the gallery.  Also what happens to whatever industrial plant which are submitted to the exhibition together with and thus sold.  I'm assuming the juxtaposition of dates way that it may live possible to submit the same industrial plant to the exhibition together with for review re whatever application for membership.  Otherwise artists truly demand to cause got a ii first-class sets of paintings - to submit to the exhibition together with to submit every bit usage of the application for election.

It's for sure worth noting that the industrial plant which tin live considered inwards relation to an application for membership are much bigger than those which tin live submitted to the exhibition.  So large industrial plant will, inwards whatever case, demand to live submitted separately.

I truly observe this all a chip silly.  Every other fine art lodge requires artists to submit operate to their annual exhibition together with and thus the industrial plant of candidates for admission are reviewed when hung inwards the gallery.  This besides allows members to review industrial plant from candidates on days other than a specific alternative day.

Let's run into if at that spot are whatever changes to the timetable side yesteryear side year! :)

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