Call for artists who deliver classes

The Upstairs Gallery in Beccles has a new mission this month.

On coming in to the gallery its not just purchasing arts and crafts that their customers want. Its advice and ideas too. The Upstairs Gallery has found that many want to do art classes in the New Year.

If you are an artist or can recommend and art class or group near you, could you please email the gallery on info@theupstairsgallery.co.uk with subject header ‘classes’, as the gallery would like to compile a list of regular classes in East Anglia and permanently display this in the gallery’s information area.

Call for Artists

Suffolk Artlink are looking for a number of artists to devise and deliver hands-on sessions for ArtBase, a new creative learning project working with adults and children together, in five North Lowestoft primary schools, from January 2013 until June 2014.

Deadline for completed applications: 12 noon on Tuesday 11th December 2012

Please follow link for full artists brief and do contact Jenny Holland on 01986 873955 if you’d like to discuss this opportunity further.

http://www.suffolkartlinkorg.uk/Jobs.htm

Jenny Holland, Project Development Officer

Email: jenny@suffolkartlink.org.uk<mailto:jenny@suffolkartlink.org.uk>
Telephone: 01986 873955

Open Art Exhibition

Entries are invited for an open Art Exhibition  ‘In response to Music ‘

The exhibition will be held @ the gallery, Dereham Memorial Hall, Norwich Street, Dereham. The exhibition will compliment The Dereham Music Festival so the focus of the exhibition is to be art ‘In response to music’.

The exhibition will be held from 16th May – 16th June and is aimed at both established and amateur artists & makers in Norfolk working in any medium.

For further details please contact
@ the gallery, Dereham Memorial Hall, Norwich St, Dereham, Norfolk NR20 4AY tel: 01362 690969
or email judy@thegallerydereham.com

East Anglian Artists Development Prize

Artists under 40 living in Norfolk, Suffolk & Essex are invited to enter the East Anglian Artists Development Prize. The winner will receive a solo exhibition at Anteros Arts Foundation and £5000 to put towards training or a project that will further their artistic skills and career. An exhibition of shortlisted artists will be held in March/April.

For full details visit www.anteros.co.uk/artistsprize

Deadline for submissions is 14th January 2012

Mark Wilsher, Administrator & PA
ANTEROS ARTS FOUNDATION
Tel: 01603 766 129 Mob: 07941 280 934

‘Show me the Monet’ on the BBC

Lucky Day Productions are making a brand new series of ‘Show Me the Monet’ for BBC Two, the first series transmitted earlier this year in May.

As before, a Hanging Committee of three art experts is looking for great art to put into their prestigious exhibition in London where members of the public together with the great and the good of the art world can view and buy the work that is on display.

They are looking for both amateur and professional artists from across the nation to apply. Applications open during the week of Monday 12th December 2011 and will close when 3,000 applications have been received or on Sunday 8th January 2012 at midnight (whichever is sooner). Please note that only the first 3,000 applications are accepted for the series and any applications received after this cut off point cannot be considered.

Click here to view a clip from the last series.

To apply: Visit the website: www.showmethemonet.tv.  You will be able to apply starting the week of Monday 12th December but not before this date.

 Contact: Kay Green, Casting Producer at Lucky Day Productions, e: Kay.Green@Luckydaytv.co.uk  t. 0203 189 3313

National Open Art Competition

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Call for entries.  Are you an artist who finds it difficult to access the art world, whether due to health, disability or social circumstances?  Submit your work for the national open art competition and create a gallery on the Outside In website.  Submit your work online for free from 22nd July 2011 to 20th July 2012.  Selected works will be shown at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex from 27th October 2012 to 3rd February 2013.  Click here to find out more. or phone 07735 568531.

Barrington Farm Surgery Days: 28th November 2011 and 1st February 2012.  Click here to find out more.  To book your place contact 01692 650633 or email roar_art@hotmail.com

ShopArt! Summer Show

Call for Artists.  A great opportunity to exhibit your artwork in empty shop windows around Norwich City Centre.

ShopArt! has been showing artwork in empty shops windows since October 2010. Current exhibits are at 1, 3, 9, 11-13,15, 17 Westlegate, 99 Prince of Wales Road and 8-10 Upper King Street, also on Westlegate House tower and on Castle Meadow.

We are happy to announce that we are looking for another wave of artwork to help bring the city centre alive in the summer months.

Please see shopartnorwich.co.uk or the facebook page.

To apply, send a brief description of your work and of what you would do in an empty shop window along with two JPEG examples of your work to mailto://grace@norwichartscentre.co.uk

 before Friday 10th June 2011.

Heart-Mind Computer Event

Artists, inventors and visionaries are invited to co-create the Heart-Mind Computer, an interactive art exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich.  For one evening only, the Living Area – the open space displaying the Centre’s permanent collection – will be transformed into a large computer consisting of ten multi-media installations or happenings, that engage spectators in a range of themes linked to the environment. Co-creators are encouraged to make use of a range of different media, from photography, painting, video, found objects, the human body or theatre, and  each installation can be up to 8m square in size.  Themes are: time, waste, population, cycles, growth and change, boundary spaces, innovation, control, crisis, or isolation.   Deadline for proposals is 1st March 2011.  

To discuss the exhibition in more detail, or submit a proposal outlining the vision of your chosen theme contact:

Jeppe Dyrendom Graugaard, Doctoral Student, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, NR4 7TJ

 mailto://j.graugaard@uea.ac.uk   or tel. 01603 591343 or 07546119692

Studio space available in Great Yarmouth

From February, an exciting opportunity for a ceramicist or a group of Potters will become available in The Courtyard in Great Yarmouth, a friendly and supportive year old purpose built development.

The Courtyard hosts small creative industries and includes a Gallery, Brewery, a Textiles business, a Silver jewellery worker and a recycled Waste business amongst others. The studio space is very reasonably priced and could be sublet to other potters, some interest having already been expressed. Also a possibility of live/work space is available.

Please contact The Courtyard, Great Yarmouth. NR30 3NZ or call 07785343500 for more information.

Information provided by Produced in Norfolk.

The Assembly House Art Show 2011

Flying Colours: Fascinating Forms, 1st to 31st August 2011

This will be the first curated annual exhibition of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 2D and 3D art at the newly-refurbished and revitalised, Grade I listed, Georgian Assembly House in the centre of Norwich.

The large Noverre Ballroom, with both wall hanging space and white, individually-lit screens, the more intimate Noverre Gallery, display cases, and two dedicated sculpture gardens combine to make this a striking showcase for art.

You are invited to put in proposals to be one of the first exhibitors in East Anglia’s newest and – we are confident – what will evolve to be one of the area’s leading annual art events.

There will be prizes awarded by an independent panel of experts, a full colour catalogue, a dedicated website, and promotion by The Assembly House’s professional press and public relations experts. The prizes will consist of £1,000 cash for the ‘Critics’ Choice’ and two runners-up prizes of £500 cash, plus a special £500 cash prize for the ‘Wittiest in Show’. What’s more, the winning artist will be given the opportunity to hold their own two-week show at The Assembly House the following year.

There will be an emphasis on contemporary art but the overriding criteria for selection will be quality not genre. For this first exhibition the curator will be looking for work in the following categories:

Painting and drawing (including collage), original prints, ceramics, installation, sculpture.

Work should normally be for sale. The Assembly House will charge a commission of 25% including VAT. Please note that work should be original and not have been displayed previously at any other venue. Selection will be on the basis of proposals submitted by Friday 14th January 2011 latest.  For further information and proposal forms email to artshow@assemblyhousenorwich.co.uk or write to Yvonne Millwood, Curator, Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich, NR2 1RQ