Author: Sal
Quay Arts: Open Exhibition
Thursday, 10th April, 2008 at 4:38 pm, Isle of Wight
Quay Arts are running an open exhibition later in the year and inviting artists from around the Island to submit their work for consideration.
The theme of the exhibition is ‘Location’: Site, place, position, spot, setting, scene.
The selectors will be looking for works that have a contemporary feel, which reflect contemporary themes and concerns, as well as works that are produced using traditional themes and methods.
The selection panel is made from David Firmstone MBE Vice president of Royal Watercolour Society and board member of Quay Arts, Mick Smith, who is of course the current Director of Quay Arts, Sally Taylor, Lecturer in Fine Art and previous Michael West Exhibitor at Quay Arts and lastly Jo Hummel-Newell RCA, who organises all the exhibitions at Quay Arts.
If you get through to the Open08 exhibition you may then be chosen for the prize of winning a solo exhibition at Quay Arts which will include input, mentoring and full marketing support.
Sounds like a great deal, so if you’re interested check their website for more info.
You’ll need to submit your artwork by 22 August 2008 to take part.
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May 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
excellent idea and competition and list of judges should mean that this open competition and exhibition gets mainland exposure and serious contemporary art accreditation,
that being so one hopes that the talented team of judges can show their insight and allow inclusive and popularist appeal rather than the elistist fashionable menage of ‘who knows who’ that has come to typify recent national contempory ’state of the art’ and ‘installation’ as a fad rather than genuine artistic movement that draws its strength from a celebration and interaction from common people rather than pseudo intellectualism of the advertising fraternity that is self aggrandising and seeks to alienate by its ignorance of popular artistic movement and the real tensions caused by those dispossed by urbanisdtion and which bears no relation to a commercial and ‘cultural’ cabal that seeks to deny humanity by division and exclusion.