Analysis Of Opened Upwards Entry To Rspp Annual Exhibition

Two posts today about the 121st Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

1. See below for an analysis of (a) the affect of the digital submission on the entries as well as (b) the per centum of plant selected which came from the opened upwardly entry
2. my review of this exhibition - which I highly recommend.  To my hear this year's exhibition rivals the character of the entries typically seen inwards the BP Portrait exhibition.

A wall inwards the North Gallery - where most of the opened upwardly entry is located
It's past times no agency slow to say the function of members from opened upwardly entries

Open Entry - the numbers

Many to a greater extent than entries were received every bit a final result of opening upwardly the entry procedure to digital submissions.  In my persuasion this too had the beneficial affect of improving the character of artwork past times non-members on display.

This was the commencement twelvemonth that the opened upwardly entry has been encouraged to purpose the digital submission procedure - thence avoiding all the expense of bringing function to London or the regional selection upwardly points unless invited to create so.

I was interested to come across what form of affect the digital submission had on numbers submitting function to the exhibition.  Indications from other exhibitions select been that it brings inwards lots of extra entries.

Thanks to the people at the Mall Galleries who were able to provide me alongside the numbers alongside regard to the entry as well as how this worked through to the artists whose function hung inwards the Gallery

It's worth making the indicate that inwards 2012, the FBA Societies as well as the Mall Galleries are dealing alongside iv unknowns

• what per centum of the overall entry volition switch to digital inwards Year 1
• how much bigger the entry volition hold upwardly because digital entry is instantly allowed
• how many people volition proceed to submit function via 'normal' hand-ins inwards London as well as the regions
• what the "right" per centum is for selecting artwork to proceed to phase 2 then that the panel isn't swamped alongside artwork to await at.

It's too a certainty that all of this volition modify 1 time to a greater extent than every bit the submission moves towards 100% digital entry.  I get together there's going to hold upwardly a review past times all the FBA Societies at the terminate of this twelvemonth alongside a persuasion to deciding what to create for 2013.  

Below yous tin come across some of the affect that digital entry is having on the numbers of plant - as well as artists - selected for exhibition

There's a tendency for the Open Entry to comprise to a greater extent than monochromatic function inwards dry out media

Summary of the Numbers

Here is a summary of the numbers

Total size of opened upwardly entry

• 1,347 images were entered inwards 2012.  This was
• 35% larger than terminal year's entry of c.1000 portraits
• 64% larger than the 2010 entry of 822.  
• From this nosotros tin conclude that digital entry is stimulating many to a greater extent than artists to motion into their work.

Digital entry

• 474 artists entered 853 digital images 
• 70% of the digital entry was invited to submit the artwork for the jury review at Stage 2 
• 89% of those invited to submit their artwork for Stage 2 did so
• The overall number of artworks via the opened upwardly entry which were reviewed past times the selectors was 1,030
• 52% came from the online submission
• 48% came from the ordinary 'hand-in' - then notwithstanding a lot of people who ask to laid to the switch to all-digital entry inwards future
• 37 artists (7.8%) as well as 41 portraits (4.8%) from the digital entry were selected for the exhibition.  There is a meliorate direct chances of getting your portraiture selected for the RSPP Annual Exhibition than if submitted to the BP Portrait Prize. 

Open Entry

• 45% of the artwork inwards the exhibition came from the OPEN entry
• 18% of the artwork came from the digital entry
• 27% came from the 'hand-in' submission

From this I conclude that this is a really OPEN exhibition.  Artists who are non members select a practiced direct chances of beingness exhibited inwards this exhibition (when compared to those FBA exhibitions where the opened upwardly chemical subdivision has instantly dropped downward towards 25% of the artwork inwards the show).

It would hold upwardly interesting to know the reasons why the 'normal' hand-in generated a higher per centum of the artwork from the opened upwardly exhibition.

Below yous volition notice a tabular array which analyses the entry.

OPEN ENTRY No. of digital images No. of artists STAGE 1: Digital Entry 853 474 Invited to submit 599 STAGE 2: Selected: Artwork Submission Artwork submitted past times non-members % Via Online submission 536 52% Ordinary Submission 494 48% TOTAL ARTWORKS submitted past times non-members 1030 100% Total No. of Images Entered 1347 SELECTION FOR EXHIBITION No. of artworks No. of artists % STAGE 3:  Selected for exhibition Open entry - digital submission 41 37 18% Open entry - normal submission 61 27% OPEN ENTRY: TOTAL IN EXHIBITION 102 45% Members - full no. of plant inwards exhibition 125 37 55% RSPP ANNUAL EXHIBITION: TOTAL WORKS 227 138  100% PLUS Member's plant on miniwall: Portraits of the Queen 12

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