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Call for Bankside Gallery Show 28 April- 3 May

South London Women Artists are ready to take their showcase to town.

The show will run from 28 April – 3 May 2010.

 This exhibition is open to all SLWA members*.
The fee is £60 and this guarantees you 1 piece of work to be exhibited in the show,
This is inclusive of the private view and SLWA will take NO commission on any works sold.
However, Bankside will pass on to the artist commission deducted by credit/debit card companies.**

Please send a cheque for £60 payable to SLWA, to arrive no later than Thursday 19th November,
Alternatively you can pay in person on Saturday 21st November 10am-4pm
You will have recieved an email with addresses on, if you did  not then please email slwa@btinternet.com

You will then be emailed full details of the event and a submission form to complete and send with your images in February.
You may submit up to 5 images and 1 will be chosen by a submission panel.
If we have space there will be an invitation to show another work at a further cost of £60.

Bankside Gallery Project Timeline
November: £60 Fee due for submission forms
December: Option to exhibit a 2nd work offered
January: Workshop “How to Apply for a Show”
February: Submission of images
March: Selection of image
April: Delivery of work to Gallery

*SLWA members are those who have paid their membership fee & appear on the SLWA showcase website.
** There may be small charges from the banks on work sold.

For example: Currently All credit/debit card charges on sales will be passed to the hirer.
Visa/Mastercard 1.6% Maestro/Visa debit 25p per transaction as at 1 September 2009.
These charges are subject to change at the banks discretion.

PPD – SLWA’s Personal Professional Development program

Give some time to yourself! PPD is a series of talks specifically for SLWAs, aiming to enhance the personal and professional development and artistic practice of contemporary women artists, especially those who are balancing career and family. We have eight great speakers, one talk a month, on a range of topics. Held at Dulwich Library from 6-9pm they are informal, fun and informative. Read this review of the first event, here.  Keep the first Monday evening of the month free for YOU. Topics include time management, women in visual culture, the creative process, effective networking, selling work, exhibition submissions, and more. Read on for info on future talks.

SLWA social: Anish Kapoor

Our third social event will be on 27 Nov 2009 a FRIDAY at 6.30pm to
see what I am told to be an amazing exhibition the artist Anish Kapoor
at the RA.

Brixton Artist Space

Brixton Market has space available for Artists – free!

Come along on Tuesday, to a meeting, if you can.  This will be the best
way to find out about the practicalities of using one of the spaces
and whether it would be suited to your project. We are looking for a
really broad mix of projects, so we’re open to all kinds of proposals.
Where appropriate, we’ll also be helping match up projects that could
share a space effectively.

Following Tuesday night, we’ll be asking people to submit proposals
within seven days – and we’ll be talking to applicants and selecting
the first wave of projects soon afterwards, with the aim of people
setting up shop as soon as late November.

Jumble Sale

 

Dear SLWA members,
  After having lived for over 8 years in the same place (my personal record!) I’ve done some serious clearing out and discovered some hidden gems, the odd weird and wonderful thing as well as ordinary and more or less useful stuff. All of it has to go!
 
 I’d like to invite you to my jumble sale party on 21 November, 3.00 – 7.00pm at 34 Sunderland Road, SE23 (see attached invite). There will be tea and something (depending on how my baking skills develop over the coming weeks).
 It would be lovely to see you.
 Angela

Professional Development Talk No. 2 – Althea Greenan, Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths’ College

The second talk in our series was well-attended and, after Althea’s presentation,  allowed for more  interaction between members whose wide-ranging discussions were prompted by the information in Althea’s slideshow.  The Women’s Art Library consists of slides, books, photographs and CDs of work by women, donated over the past 30 years.  It is a free resource open to any artist

SLWA Education Program

To coincide with their second exhibition at the Dulwich Library, South London Women Artists launched their education programme.

Artists Jackie Brown and Pia Randall-Godard worked with local primary schools, Goodrich and St. Anthony’s, while Jane Higginbottom worked with a group of AS students from James Alleyn’s Girls School.

The workshops were designed to focus on good sketch book practise and the development of ideas.

CHRISSY SILVER. POTTERY WORKSHOP

*NOTE: Change Of Date Wednesday 18th nov 6-8.30*

Apologies for late notice. Change of date due to PPD talk. Now you can do both!

Another chance to learn about different clays and their uses at Chrissy Silvers studio.
Contact Chrissy by e mail. silverchrissy@mac.com

Warning Call for Artists for Dulwich Open House

8, 9 May and 15,16 May 2010
Rachel Gluyas the organiser will be sending out registration forms in November.
If you are interested email her asap to get a form.  Say you are a SLWA.
rachel.gluyas@btinternet.com>

Last year SLWA had 35 artists exhibiting, with our own flyer.
We made a great impact – and it was fun.
Dulwich based SLWAs opened their studios to those living outside the area.
We had groups exhibiting at All Saint’s Church, Rosendale Road, at Bainbridges, West Norwood and at Ingrid Beazly’s house in Court Lane.
Let’s do it again. Dulwich Open House has a big following. It’s a great opportunity to publicise SLWA in our core area. It is also a great way to get to know other people in SLWA. We are looking for an organiser who will link people together so that as many SLWAs as possible can take part.

Please let Jenny Sweeney know by 1 December if you are thinking of applying- contact Jenny Sweeney at SLWA@btinternet.com  putting attn Jenny in the subject line. If you would like to show but live out of the area or if you have some space to share with artists outside of the area. If you can spare a little time to co-ordinate our participation.

Remember to receive a registration form contact rachel.gluyas@btinternet.com now.

URGENT NEWS: PPD NOV 2nd TALK CHANGED TO NOV 4th

Please note that the next talk, scheduled to take place on November 2nd, is now going to take place on WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4TH, same time, same place.

We hope those of you who said you could come on the 2nd will still be able to attend, and hope that those of you who have Monday evening commitments will now be able to come and hear Althea Greenan speak about contemporary women’s artistic practice.  A reminder that she will bring material from the Women’s Art Library,