RWA Open Exhibitions
The Royal West of England Academy has two open exhibitions a year. The first is an exhibition rotating the disciplines of sculpture, painting, photography and printmaking. It attracts contemporary artists both nationally and internationally. The second open exhibition, which is held annually, is the Autumn Exhibition. It has been in existence for over 150 years, the 156th being the most recent. The Autumn Exhibition is a mixed discipline exhibition, including disciplines such as painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and architecture. It attracts artists both regionally and nationally.
Online Submissions
The RWA is now offering the chance to submit artworks for all open exhibitions online. If you choose to submit in this way it will be significantly cheaper, and quicker.
This process is simple:
- Go to the link via the red 'Online Submission' button
- Create an artist profile
- Submit details of your works
- Pay online for less
- Bring your works in on hand in day and be fast-tracked through the process
- Receive your results quicker via email
| Open Painting |
The Open Painting exhibition seeks
to provide a showcase for the best of contemporary painting. On show
will be a selection made by a committee of independent figures from
the art world, alongside a selection of works from invited artists
including Saied Dai,
Eileen Cooper RA
and David Rayson
(Royal College of Art).
The selection committee will include David Buckman (writer and author of 'Artists in Britain since 1945'), Matthew Hall (London gallery owner specialising in English and Scottish contemporary art), Saied Dai (artist), David Rayson (Head of Painting at Royal College of Art), Janette Kerr RWA (artist, and Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England).and Simon Quadrat RWA (RWA Artist Chairman). Artists submitting works within the open submission will be eligible for awards worth over £8000. We have now launched an online system for submitting artworks. All details can be entered and conveniently paid for online. You will be able to submit works and print your own labels out. This means that on hand in day all you will need to do is hand in your works to be checked by a member of staff with a bar-code reader. This will make things faster, easier and cheaper for everyone. If you would prefer to do a manual hand in and would like to receive a submission pack in the post please send and SAE to the RWA marked ‘Open Painting’ - you will then receive a submission pack in the post. |
 Saied Dai RP, Artist in Studio, oil on canvas, 105cm x 75 |
Exhibition dates 28th March - 9th May 2010.
| Open Painting Prizes The RWA is pleased to announce that there will be prizes worth over £8000 available for those submitting works within the open submission. Details are as follows: |
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Odin Trust Awards: £5000, £2000 and £1000 cash prizes
Creative Picture Framing Award for Best Newcomer: Framing to the value of £200
The Artist Magazine Prize for the Most Outstanding Figurative Student Painter: A year’s subscription to The Artist Magazine and an illustrated profile in the magazine.
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Standard Terms and Conditions |
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Academicians Terms and Conditions |
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Open Painting Transport |
RWA Autumn Exhibition
The Autumn Exhibition is an annual open exhibition for painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and architecture. The success of submission is not dependent on the style or content but quality. The RWA expects to represent a broad range of contemporary fine art produced in recent years, e.g. within the last five years, by both Academicians and other artists.
Works for exhibition will be chosen and hung by a panel of Academicians (appointed by the RWA Council), whose decision is final and binding. The selection panel changes yearly and open submissions are judged anonymously. Artists will be informed of the panel’s decision by post. Results will not be given out by telephone before this.
For more information, please contact info@rwa.org.uk