Open Call for Sculpture Artists

Wilks, the 1* Michelin Resturant Chandos Road is looking for local artists who would like to exhibited an outdoor sculpture.

The resturant has been opened for over four years and 95% of the artists who have exhibited there have sold work. They also link the artists website and promote exhibitions on both facebook and twitter. They are a busy resturant and it is a great way to introduce local artists to their guests.

If you are interested email Christine Vayssade at: info@wilksresturant.co.uk

Southwest Showcase Open Call - Plymouth College of Art

Source: www.artsjobs.org.uk

Deadline for Applications: Sunday 27th March 2016 

Awarded Fee: £2000

Plymouth College of Art is seeking applications for exhibition proposals from contemporary visual artists based in the South West Region.

Two artists will be selected for short solo exhibitions in The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art between Jan-March 2017. Artists will be awarded £2000 to produce their exhibition, with additional support from the college – including production, marketing/press, equipment, an exhibition launch and key interpretation materials.

The South West, as defined by Arts Council England, includes: Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Somerset, Bath & North East Somerset, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly, Isle of Wight, North Somerset, Plymouth, Poole, Portsmouth, South Gloucestershire, Southampton, Swindon, Torbay and Wiltshire.

The South West Showcase is a recurring open call platform, showcasing artists from across the South West region. The showcase aims to uncover and celebrate the talent of contemporary artists working and living in the South West and to present a long-term commitment from Plymouth College of Art to profiling and supporting the practices of artists in this region.  Artists previously supported through this project include Hannah James, Bryony Gillard, Abigail Reynolds, Kit Poulson and Marie Toesland.

Selection panel:

Claire Doherty (Director, Situations)

Matt Burrows (Curator, Exeter Phoenix)

Tim Bolton (Deputy Principal - Academic, Plymouth College of Art)

Zoe Li (Exhibitions Manager, Maternity Cover, Plymouth College of Art)

Sandy Kirkby (Creative producer, B-Side Festival) 

The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art:

The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art is a public exhibition space located in the heart of the city centre and at the front of the College. The Gallery runs a high quality annual programme of exhibitions and events, showcasing work by the most exciting contemporary, emerging and established artists working in a range of different discipline areas. The Gallery programme aims to enrich, enhance and support the teaching and learning of the College, whilst also engaging with a wider public audience.

Online application portal now open, for more information, please visit here. 

Open Call for Artists - Utopia Dystopia, Fringe Arts Bath

Image Credits: New dawn, new day Geoff Dunlop; Glacier Ester Vonplon

Free submissions - email utopiadystopia@fringeartsbath.co.uk

Utopia Dystopia is an ambitious series of exhibitions and events planned for the city of Bath during 2016. This creative initiative is inspired by the 500th anniversary of the publication of Utopia, Thomas More's reflections on the idea of an ideal society. Since 1516, the year of Utopia's release, the world has witnessed countless attempts to establish a perfectly ordered community, in reality as well as in print. Yet the frequent outcome of such ambitions has been the decay of Utopia into Dystopia. From no-place to bad-place. In modern times the two concepts seem inseparable. FaB16 is inviting artists in all media to particiate in a series of imaginative responses to the themes of utopia or dystopia, or both. The FaB projects are being complemented, or supported, by events involving other Bath-based cultural organisations, including Bath Fringe, Bath Spa University, the Holburne Museum and Komedia. The key exhibition and performance venue is Walcot Chapel during FaB16 (27th May - 12th June), for several decades one of Bath's most popular locations for contemporary art. Artworks of all kinds are invited for submission, whether image, object or sound, moving or still, interior or exterior. We are also keen to recieve submissions from artists interested in transforming the space, initiating live events, performances or workshops. Deadline for submissions: 14.03.16 Curated by Geoff Dunlop with Sophie Erin Cooper

Sculptor/Maker - Green Man Festival

Source: www.artsjobs.org.uk

Deadline: 4th July 2015

Fee: Free ticket and £1000

Sculptor/Maker (ideally with pottery experience) for biology inspired workshop activity/installation at Einstein’s Garden, Green Man Festival

The Green Man Festival has earned a reputation as one of the great independant festivals in the UK. In 2010 Green Man won ‘Best Medium Festival’ at the UK Festival Awards and in 2012 won the ‘Grassroots Festival’ award. The 2015 festival dates are 21/22/23 August.

Einstein’s Garden is a creative fusion of science, art and nature. The area’s venues are packed with a vibrant programme of performances, workshops and installations that use art, entertainment and participation to engage people with the diverse aspects of science and nature in fun, quirky and unexpected ways.

http://greenman.net/explore/areas/einsteins-garden/

We would like to work with a sculptor or maker, ideally with experience of pottery and using a potters wheel. This project will be a biology inspired workshop activity and interactive installation, developed in collaboration with scientists from Bristol University.

We are looking for someone who can engage with scientific ideas through collaboration with scientists and translate those ideas into an interactive making activity that is a creative and fun experience for audience members.

You must be available for two planning meetings in Bristol over July and the beginning of August, making time in the middle of August and be on site at the festival from Thursday 20th August - Sunday 23rd August.

While on site at the festival you will be expected to facilitate the activity, in collaboration with the scientists, between 11am and 5pm on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

We can provide a ticket to the festival and a fee of £1000.

To apply send a short covering letter explaining why you are interested in collaborating on this project with CV and images or links.

Send to Ellen Dowell, curator and creative producer of Einstein’s Garden – ellen@greenman.net

Open Call - RWA 162nd Annual Open Exhibition

Source:www.rwa.org.uk

RWA

Entry closes on the 27 August at 5pm

Submissions of painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, architecture and moving image from unknown, emerging and established artists

The Royal West of England Academy holds an Annual Open Exhibition now in its 162nd year. As the name suggests anyone can enter their work for this mixed discipline show. A selection panel assesses every entry and last year 560 works by 348 artists made it into the final exhibition. All work is for sale and the exhibition attracts art-lovers and art-buyers from far and wide. The exhibition is open to the public from 12 October – 7 December 2014.

Artists are encouraged to submit recent work (produced within the last 3 years) and all works must be for sale, with prices predominantly under £10,000. Each artist can submit a maximum of three works, which must not have been exhibited before at the RWA, and there is a submission fee for each entry. 

For more information about entering your work go here.

Don't Panic - Calling for Contributors and Interns

Sculptors Wanted

Sculptors wanted for exhibition opportunities in the South of England. Frickleton Fine Art works with Corporate clients on art exhibition programmes and is looking for artists to exhibit large scale pieces on a sale or return basis. Artists should be based in the South of England or london. Please send 3 or more clearly labelled images (artists name, title of piece, size and medium), a statement and CV to info@frickletonfineart.co.uk.

Online Resource for Sculptors, Designers, Model-Makers and Prop-Makers

www.davidneat.wordpress.com   
A free resource for sculptors, designers, model-makers, prop-makers or just anyone interested in the practicalities of making.
I started building this site almost two years ago because I wanted an immediate and ‘no nonsense’ means of recording and sharing my experiences of making. I earn much of my living ‘explaining how to make things’ and I spend the rest of my time developing and extending that knowledge i.e. researching old and new methods, testing materials and creating objects which illustrate the results. The Wordpress site is a platform (more like a studio shelf) for this work.
It is a simple site, and there are various search possibilities or ways of using it. In addition to the dated posts there are organized pages, grouped under ‘Materials’ or ‘Methods’, which provide outline information including suppliers and prices, and a growing ‘Vocabularly’ of clear definitions.
It is not a ‘chatty’ site, partly because the focus is tuned on fact rather than opinion. All information is as far as possible vetted, tested, or based on direct personal experience rather than hearsay.
I’ve recently posted fairly thorough articles dealing with the main areas of model-making work .. main construction, fine construction, modelling&shaping, creating surfaces and painting .. geared towards theatre design work but applicable to other disciplines. I’ve also developed an A-Z ‘Lexicon’ and added extensively to it, with the hope that this will become a comprehensive source of definitions for materials and processes.
 David Neat, November2013

Open Call for Bristol Biennial

The Bristol Biennial is building new foundations as an interactive contemporary Arts Festival. The Bristol Biennial is intended as a collaborative project between institutions, groups, associations and individual practitioners within the creative arts sector. Its objective is to create an interactive and international platform to raise the profile of Bristol based emerging artists. By instigating and promoting new collaboration and discussion through an international network, local artists can gain access to new artistic territory.

The theme for 2014, Crossing the Line,gathers a crowd of meaning, to encourage an exchange of ideas, bringing out the best of innovative and interactive work. Using a dynamic programme of spaces and locations in Bristol, artists are asked to consider: place and space, international exchange and the relationship between artist and audience.

The programme is open to proposals from artists working with: Live Art, Performance Art, Music, Visual Arts, Video, Sculpture, Drawing, Animation and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

The Bristol Biennial will take place in various locations in and around the city. The Biennial team will match selected projects to locations, which include re-appropriated existing space, disused sites, creative buildings and public spaces. Artists are also encouraged to suggest locations.

The Festival is presented over 9 days from the 12th-21st of September 2014.

The Open Call runs from the 14th October to the 2nd January 2014.

Successful artist and art group applications will be notified during the first week of December.

Funding

Subject to funding necessary production costs will be provided.

How

For your application please include the following:

●     Current CV

●     Your project proposal (500 words max.)

●     Budget, including materials and equipment

●      Examples of previous work (incl. website links) 10-12 still images, or 5 minutes of Video. If sending via e-mail please use  https://www.wetransfer.com/ for large files, sent to the address below.

 Sent via e-mail to:

contact@bristolbiennial.co.uk

 Post to:

Admin, Bristol Biennial

Studio 108:1 Spike Island Studios

133 Cumberland Road

Bristol

BS1 6UX

Deadline for Applications 2nd January 2014, 5pm.