SLWA SUMMER EXHIBITION

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 

FOR THE SLWA SUMMER EXHIBITION

Deadline for entries 24 June

Friday 08 July  6 – 9 pm – Artist Talking event for our membership and friends

Friday 15 July  6 – 9 pm – Summer party for friends and guests

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SMALL WORKS ON PAPER

Photography • Print  • Giclee  • Drawing  • Painting • Textiles  • Collage

Max size A3 (29.7 cm x 42 cm) including frame

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To submit

email one jpeg of one work to

slwaexhibition@gmail.com

In your accompanying email, state your name, title of the work, media, date and sale price.

eg: Liz Charsley-Jory, Wet Day, charcoal on paper, 2011, £250

 • All works must be for sale.

 £10 fee payable on drop off. 

SLWA will take 10% commission on sales 

Unsold works must be collected on the 16 July. Time to be confirmed.

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This promises to be a lovely event to mark the end of this year’s Artist Talking programme of exhibitions and events.

 Bespoke Space is great space and we have the use of the outside courtyard.

BESPOKE SPACE, UNIT 4 BLACKWATER  CT, 17-21 BLACKWATER STREET, SE22 40

Member artists are needed to help with the organization of the event.

Please say if you can help.

 

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!Book Now! SLWA visits New Hall & Cambridge

Maggi Hambling Rising Wave

A chance to see Maggi Hambling’s work twice in one day… 12 people have now booked but there’s space for more…

SLWA VISIT TO THE NEW HALL COLLECTION OF WOMEN’S ART – CAMBRIDGE
Sunday 25 July

350 contemporary works by women artists
The most significant collection of its kind in Europe
Works by Maggi Hambling, Barbara Hepworth, Paula Rego and Rebecca Fortnum
Given or donated to New Hall, Cambridge, still a women only college.
Works displayed throughout this modernist 1960s building.
http://www-art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/

SLWA visit includes a 90 minute guided tour by the curator
Amanda Rigler, who visited our Bankside exhibition.
SLWA Katherine Jones’ prints on display as the temporary exhibition.

OPTIONS FOR THE AFTERNOON
Kettle’s Yard house and Gallery
Exhibition – The Long Dark – Medievalism in contemporary art
By 9 emerging British and German artists.

Fitzwilliam Museum
Exhibition – Maggi Hambling: The Wave, a powerful group of large-scale paintings depicting the power and energy of the North Sea.
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/index.html

Cambridge – colleges, river, nice pubs ………

TIMING: Kings Cross station 10.04
Meet at 9.50, usually platform 9 check the board.
Arrive Cambridge 11.12. Taxis to New Hall
Curator’s tour 11.30-13.00.
Lunch – local pub
Afternoon – your choice
Train 17.04 arrives Kings Cross 18.19 or choose your own departure time.

COST: Book ahead at fixed times with Rail Easy – £20 return
Shared taxis to New Hall- £2 (buses a pain)
New Hall tour by curator -£3, includes tea and coffee.

Optional
Kettle’s Yard, House free, exhibition £3.

PLEASE CONFIRM IF YOUR ARE COMING SO THAT WE CAN NOTIFY NEW HALL
BOOK YOUR OWN TRAIN TICKET.
Email:jennysweeney@sweeneycourt.co.uk

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*SLWA Special Offer* Your Own Website for £150

A website is an invaluable tool for showcasing your art and enabling collectors and galleries to follow your work.

Catherine Fraher, SLWA’s website editor, is offering straightforward websites for artists at a special reduced rate of £150 until July 31st 2010.*

Includes: 
* Up to 6 pages with…
   – Lots of images of your work
   – Any amount of text
      eg. your statement, CV, reviews of your shows, catalogue copy from your shows, your articles, and so on
* Good results on Google
* Website address of your choice (.co.uk)
* Links to SLWA websites, and any others you wish

For examples of Catherine’s work see the SLWA Showcase or SLWA Members website or the website of Irish artist, Pamela Hardesty.

For more details, contact Catherine at: catherinefraher@hotmail.co.uk
(* £150 offer open to SLWA members and their friends until July 31st 2010. )

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SLWA VISIT TO THE NEW HALL COLLECTION OF WOMEN’S ART – CAMBRIDGE

Next social event: SLWA VISIT TO THE NEW HALL COLLECTION OF WOMEN’S ART – CAMBRIDGE
Sunday 25 July

350 contemporary works by women artists
The most significant collection of its kind in Europe
Works by Maggi Hambling, Barbara Hepworth, Paula Rego and Rebecca Fortnum
Given or donated to New Hall, Cambridge, still a women only college.
Works displayed throughout this modernist 1960s building.
http://www-art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/
SLWA visit includes a 90 minute guided tour by the curator Amanda Rigler, who visited our Bankside exhibition.
SLWA Katherine Jones’ prints on display as the temporary exhibition.

Option to visit Kettle’s Yard house and Gallery in the afternoon
Exhibition – The Long Dark – Medievalism in contemporary art
By 9 emerging British and German artists.
http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/

Or visit Cambridge – colleges, river, nice pubs …………

Timing:
Kings Cross station 10.04
Meet at 9.50, usually platform 9.
Arrive Cambridge 11.12. Taxis to New Hall

Curator’s tour 11.30-13.00.

Lunch – local pub

Afternoon – your choice

Train 17.04 arrives Kings Cross 18.19 or choose your own departure time.

Cost:
Book ahead at fixed times with Rail Easy – £20 return
Shared taxis to New Hall- £2 (buses a pain)
New Hall tour by curator -£3, includes tea and coffee.

Optional:
Kettle’s Yard, House free, exhibition £3.

PLEASE CONFIRM IF YOUR ARE COMING SO THAT WE CAN NOTIFY NEW HALL

BOOK YOUR OWN TRAIN TICKET.

Email:jennysweeney@sweeneycourt.co.uk

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Can YOU predict the future of Art? – BBC’s Culture Show questionnaire

[Ed: BBC invites SLWA to participate in their survey on the future of art. Survey closes 4th June 2010.]

Ben Lewis and The Culture Show are attempting to gather the opinions of the art world in order to predict what the next age for contemporary art might be. Madness you say? Not necessarily.

Social science has been used for over half a century to assess and measure attitudes – by governments, psychologists, industries, marketing, political scientists, sociologists, etc. but not as yet by the art world. For an upcoming episode of The Culture Show, themed around science and art, presenter and art critic Ben Lewis will be applying the science of psychometrics to assessing people’s attitudes towards the future of art.

Will we find anything out? Only you can help us with that. Here is the link to it: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F3XRNBF
Please send our questionnaire on to your fellow art world insiders, colleagues, students. Not just that, please complete it yourself! We will close the questionnaire a calendar month from now and need as many people as possible to take part.

Many thanks in advance for your time.
The Culture Show

BBC Arts, MC5 A3, BBC Media Centre, White City, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ
e: culture.show@bbc.co.uk
t: +44 (0)20 8008 1826 f: +44 (0)20 8752 6635
www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow

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SLWA talk: Rebecca Fortnum on Contemporary British Women Artists, Monday 17th May 6.30 – 8.30 pm

During her Arts and Humanities Research Council [AHRC] research project Rebecca Fortnum interviewed an important and influential sample of British women artists practicing internationally today. Her interviews and reflections were published as ‘Contemporary British Women Artists: in their own words’, (I.B. Tauris 2006).

The book is insightful and entertaining. It documents the thoughts, influences and processes of Jananne Al-Ani, Gillian Ayres, Claire Barclay, Christine Borland, Sonia Boyce, Maria Chevska, Tacita Dean, Tracey Emin, Anya Gallaccio, Lucy Gunning, Jane Harris, Runa Islam, Vanessa Jackson, Emma Kay, Tanya Kovats, Maria Lalic, Hayley Newman, Paula Rego and Jemima Stehli and Tomoko Takahashi.

Rebecca will talk about the book with SLWA.

Monday 17th May 6.30 – 8.30 pm.
Upstairs room at Dulwich Library.
Members and friends: £5 on the door. Non-members: £8.

Rebecca Fortnum read English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford before gaining an MFA from Newcastle University and taking up a fellowship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, USA. She has received numerous awards throughout her career as a visual artist and has a distinguished history of teaching in the arts, in Britain and the USA. She is currently Course Director of MA Fine Art (Visual Arts) at Cambwerwell College of Arts.

To buy the book on Amazon click here>

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SLWA “the book” – Bankside catalogue on sale now

You can now order the SLWA catalogue for our Bankside show.
Many thanks to Eithne Twomey for sterling work producing the catalogue – it’s a glorious SLWA First!

The catalogue is available by clicking here>
It’s a 38 page full colour, soft-cover book showing every image from the Bankside Show.

It is also available in hardback.
Single copies (soft cover) are £10.98, including postage to London.

Before ordering, do check out the pricing and shipping details – you can save money by ordering larger quantities.

Find out how to produce your own books and catalogues at blurb.com

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Questions and Answers For the Bankside Exhibition

1. Is there a size limit?
Yes.
2D – including the frame is 1.2 square metres. (120cm height x 120cm width).
3D – the maximum size is 1.2 metres cubed. (120cm HxWxD)
2. My work is small, why do I have to pay £60 too?
 Finances for the Exhibition is tight, the fairest way is to sell a submission, as you can imagine with 100 artists work varies and it would be too difficult to set up a sliding size/price scale.
3. Why do I need to send three images when I am guaranteed a piece to be shown in the show?
We are putting on a professional exhibition and we want to involve all our artists, we would like it to be as coherent as possible and by having a selection process we hope to get the show to gel as much as we can.
4. Can I show more than one work?
Yes please see previous email your cheque is due NOW. Each extra piece will cost £60.
5. Help! My work is bigger than allowed what can I do?
 We have a few spaces for larger works up to 2m but you will need to pay the equivalent of 2 submissions i.e. £120 please let me know if you are interested in this.
6. Who will be selecting and curating my work?
Pippa Graber from Art Dog
Kelly Chorpening from Camberwell School of Arts
And one other to be decided
7. When do I need to send in my jpegs?
22 – 26 February
8. My Jpegs are terrible- what can I do?
Come to our workshop on January 23rd at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
9. When will I know what piece of work is selected?
At the end of March
10. Does my work really have to be framed?
This is a professional exhibition please look at the framing guidelines on the form carefully
11. Is my work insured?
When it is mirror plated to the wall in the gallery it will be insured, you need to have your own cover for other times.
12. When will the Private View be?
Wednesday April 28th 2010 6-9pm
13. Will any commission be taken on sales?
No, apart from bank charges; currently these charges are: Visa/Mastercard 1.6% Maestro/Visa debit 25p per transaction as at 1 September 2009.

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PPD – SLWA’s Personal Professional Development program

Reminder: Monday December 7th –  Angela Schütz

At this busy time of year, as we prepare for the Christmas break – traditionally a time of activity followed by a period of reflection – we welcome your attendance to hear our third speaker Angela Schütz, who will be asking us to examine the creative process itself.

CREATIVITY AND THE CREATIVE BLOCK

Angela Schütz, a practising artist and psychosynthesis counsellor will present a psycho-spiritual view of creativity and the creative block. Using examples from her own artwork she will be sharing her personal experience as well as inviting us to reflect on our own art practice and to gain a deeper insight into the creative process and what makes it flow.

“Creativity is being in the world soulfully, for the only thing we truly make, whether in the arts, in culture or at home, is soul.”
Thomas Moore

Looking forward to January: on Monday 18th Edward Birch of the Southwark Arts Forum will start our SLWA year off by encouraging us to get out of our studios and work places and reap the benefits of networking. Also, gleaned from time spent at the Arts Council, Edward will give his top tips for making succesful funding appliactions.

We look forward to seeing lots of members and friends at these talks.

Best wishes,

Laura and Liz

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.  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.

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**Anita Klein Joins Dulwich Library Selectors!**

We are very happy to announce that artist Anita Klein has very kindly offered to join our selectors Pippa Graber, Artdog and Jill Alexander, chair of Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery to choose work for the SLWA Dulwich Library exhibition. Please send in your submissions now! (scroll down for details)

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