Dulwich Library Show March 2011

CALLING ALL MEMBERS OF SOUTH LONDON WOMEN ARTISTS.
The 5th exhibition of work by SLWA at Dulwich Library is to run from

Sunday 27 February– Saturday 26th March 2011.

WOMEN and BOOKS

This will coincide with Southwark’s 6th Year of Celebrating Women, and 100 years of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2011.

In order to explore further SLWA’s established relationship with Dulwich Library and this important centenary, we have decided to give our show a theme. And what better theme, given our location thanWOMEN and BOOKS

Your work might be inspired by a writer, a genre or a book, but if not, your work could be opened up to new meanings with the help of a new title.  ‘The Remains of the Day’, ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ or an inversion like ‘ a View from a Room’.  It would be great to enrich the show with texts – so please tell us about the work you are submitting!

This Spring and Autumn exhibition is now a fixture in the calendar and a good way to keep up the profile of our artists in a space that is fast establishing itself as a venue to view and buy small original artworks.
The library is a well used resource centre and the exhibition will be seen by large numbers of people during the month of March.
The previous shows have sold well and there have been several ‘after show sales’ proving that keeping our work in the public eye is important and effective for us as a group and as individuals.

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Rosa Art Competition

Dulwich Picture Gallery invites you to enter an online art competition based on the current exhibition Salvator Rosa.

Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) was one of the boldest and most powerfully inventive artists of 17th-century Italy. He was adopted as a hero by painters of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was mainly a painter of landscapes, but the range of his subject matter was unusually wide and included portraits, scenes of witchcraft and allegories.

A group of the works in Dulwich Picture Gallery’s current Salvator Rosa exhibition transport the viewer into a mysterious world of monstrous mythical creatures, bandits and magic. Drawing from Salvator Rosa’s work and a famous myth, legend or fantasy novel depict your own allegorical scene.

Your entry and a brief sentence about you (if you like) will be published on Dulwich OnView and the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Flickr group The Rosa Competition.

• Any flat medium – painting, drawing, mixed media, photos etc.
• All entrants to be digital images of original works
• Categories: under 18, 18 and over

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Women Artists Educate Next Generation

Southwark News has featured our new show. Check out the article bellow and get involved in what we’re doing:

Please let Jackie Brown know if you can give a couple of  hours of your time on one of the 4 Wednesdays in November from 1.30  to 3.30 to work with junior pupils and 4.15 to 5.15 with senior students. And of course come to our Private View on 3 November at 8pm in the Dulwich Library!

Please take a look at Gabrielle Bradshaw’s website, whose painting is featured in the article.

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Private View at Dulwich Library, 3rd November

On the morning of October 13th the selection panel met to choose the work for the fourth SLWA exhibition to be held  at Dulwich Library. It took Emily Druiff, Mella Shaw and Maria Chevska more than two hours to view over 130 images and choose the final 46 pieces to be displayed. By lunchtime the final decisions had been made and the work will be on show in the library from 31st October until 27th November.

The Private View is on the  3rd November  from 8 pm – 10 pm and the invitation is open to everyone.

Whether or not you have work in the show please show your support for the SLWA  by not only coming along yourself but by inviting as many people as possible to join us. The strength and continued growth of SLWA depends on greater exposure of the group and this is a responsibility that falls at the feet of every member.  An awful lot of work goes into organising these library  shows  so  please do your bit by distributing flyers and e-mailing invites. Every exhibition is a chance to raise our profile which obviously benefits all of us!

Can anyone help with making canapés for the Private View? If so please email art@paolaminekov.com

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Peckham Space OPEN, calls for artworks

Emily Druiff, director if Peckham Space and the curator of the next SLWA show in Dulwich,  is pleased to announce the first Peckham Space OPEN exhibition and calls for artworks. This will be a unique exhibition that will showcase artworks that have a connection to Peckham. The exhibition will take place from 7 – 18 December 2010 at Peckham Space’s new venue on Peckham Square, London SE15.

This is an exceptional opportunity to have your work seen by the selection panel consisting of leading gallery directors, arts editors, tutors and curators from across London. The selection panel will include representatives from:

• Tate Britain
• Cafe Gallery Projects
• Camberwell College of Arts
• Art Licks
• Peckham Space

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Join our Dulwich Library Exhibition event on Facebook

Dear Artists,

We currently have over 400 subscribers on our page on Facebook. If you are on Facebook and haven’t joined our page yet, please do so and invite your friends and relevant contacts.

We’ve created an event to advertise the Dulwich Library Exhibition. Confirm your attendance here http://www.facebook.com/pages/South-London-Women-Artists/300805922952 and invite your contacts to attend the exhibition. Even if you can’t attend the Private View in person, once you RSVP, you will be given the option to invite your contacts.

If your work has been selected for this exhibition please upload it here to help promote both the show and your practice: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=291059&id=300805922952

Please state your name, the title of the work, medium and size. See Example

If you would like to upload the photo of your work but are not a Facebook member, or have not been added as an admin of the page yet, send your image and info to me and I’ll upload it: art@paolaminekov.com

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Dulwich selection panel

Dear Artists, The members of this year’s selection panel are: Emily Druiff, Director of Peckham Space who will also curate the show. Mella Shaw, Head of Exhibitions at Dulwich Picture Gallery and artist Maria Chevska. To accommodate their schedules we have had to reschedule the date of the selection panel to Wednesday, 13 October, so you will hear whether your work has been selected shortly after this date. We’ve just published an article about them, so please check out the Dulwich Library Showcase Page for more information.

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Glass exhibition and women’s hotel in Berlin‏

By Susan Wood

– thought some of you might be interested in a wonderful exhibition I went to this Tuesday in Berlin which started on 17 June and runs for a while:
– Bröhan Museum [opposite Schloss Charlottenburg, nearest underground is Richard-Wagner-Platz].
F R A G I L E Glaskunst 1889-1939 – it has wonderful pieces of glass from 1889-1939, from Art Nouveau to Art Deco and Functionalism, and includes examples of all sorts of glass – opaque, translucent, carved, engraved, enamelled, iridescent … – for real connoisseurs there is a huge, comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue of the whole 700 items in the museum’s glass collection. For more information see www.broehan-museum.de

Even if you’re not keen on glass, you might be interested in the Women’s Hotel in Berlin called Artemisia – it’s right by the underground station Konstanzer Strasse and is very near the Kurfürstendamm, which used to be the main shopping street of the former West Berlin. The idea of a hotel for women only has been going for quite a while now – there are four or five hotels for women only in Germany, and the lady at reception told me there’s one in Rome and one in Florence too. This hotel is reasonably priced, has been very nicely refurbished, and has a lovely breakfast terrace on the 4th floor so you can eat outside if it’s hot. The rooms are spacious and airy with high ceilings – good when it is very hot outside! There are lots of paintings around the public rooms, corridors and bedrooms that are by women artists – many donated by the artists. Have a look at the website if you’re interested – www.frauenhotel.berlin.de

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Last chance to see exhibition of contemporary Australian art

If you’ve not seen it already I  really recommend 5 BY 5: An Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art
It’s on at The Menier Gallery in Southwark until June 5th. The exhibition showcases the work of five artists, Helen Pynor, Tony Lloyd, Anthony White, Dennis Nona and Laith McGregor.

The ephemeral and sensual C-type photographs of flowers by Helen Pynor are stunning (she was recently selected for the RBS Emerging Artist Award in Australia, and has been selected for the Royal Academy this year!)

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Bankside schedule – EXHIBITORS MUST READ THIS

Things are getting very exciting with organisation of the Bankside Gallery show. Here is the detailed schedule for exhibitors:

March 19th
Our selection panel Janice Tchalenko, Kelly Chorpening and Pippa Graber will be choosing the work for exhibiting.
You should have received a confirmation email by now.
If you have not, please email slwa@btinternet.com

March 20th
We are organising the flyers and private view cards and would like to use images of the selected works, our turnaround for this is very tight so
PLEASE SEND A HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE OF YOUR SELECTED ARTWORK TO
JULIE BENNET BY 11AM TOMORROW, SATURDAY 20 MARCH at jab.desenfans@virgin.net
size 5cm x5cm 300dpi.
She needs about 20 images so not all will get chosen.
This high res image will go into the online catalogue too. Make sure it is the right one.

March 28th
It is vital we all publicise our show. We also need to make sure all areas are covered
Flyers will be ready for collection on Sunday 28 March at Dulwich Library from 10.30 – 12.00, as people collect their Artwork from the Dulwich exhibition.
Artists exhibiting at the Cafe will be collecting their work at 4pm and they can collect the flyers there.
Some members have signed up to deliver flyers but we still need help – if you would like to target galleries in a particular area of London, please contact cazunderwood@gmail.com before 28th March. Thanks!

April 26th
Drop off selected work to the Gallery- Remember your forms! 12-3pm

April 28th
Private View 6-9pm

May 1st
Artists talk by Susan Wood 3pm

May 3rd
Family day
bring your own picnic 2pm

May 4th
Collection of work 12-6pm

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