Art Call: Best of Britain
Deadline 20th APRIL 2012. Exhibition 30th April - 5th June at the Corinium Museum. See 'Submit Work' for submission details
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The Jubilee Postcards
The Jubilee Postcard BookThe Jubilee Postcard Book was launched at the Corinium Museum on Friday 4th May 2012.
There was a fantastic turn out of 120 people, to see the Jubilee exhibition, including all the wonderful postcards for the Best of Britain competition.
To get your hands on this limited edition book, only 250 copies printed. It contains 63 artists and lots of exciting postcards.
Available via Ebay. Click here to goto the listing!
If you are a shop interested in stocking the book, please email: Laviniadrake@hotmail.com
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Submissions!
Thank you to everyone who has submitted from far and wide across the world! A lot have arrived this week, so I am working my way through emailing, scanning and uploading, so please bear with me.
I’d like to thank the sponsors for making this all possible, please have a look at their sites.I’d like to invite you to the Evening opening and Book launch on Friday 4th May 2012. 18:30 - 20:30 at the Corinium Museum, Park Street, Cirencester, GL7 2BX ENGLAND!
You can see the submission gallery here: www.bestofbritainsubmissions.tumblr.com/archive
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Q: Hello, I found out about this project a few days ago. I started a painting for it, but I think it will not be dry in time. Can I take a picture of it and post that one for the project, and send the original one when it's dry? Thank you! Eveline
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How long do you think it’ll take to dry? If you can send a photo and then get the actual one sent in ASAP,
Thanks
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The Best of Britain Submissions Gallery please follow!
Please follow and share this link to the gallery of submissions so far received for the Best of Britain art call.
Please submit soon as the deadline is drawing near. There will be a book published of the best works… free to enter, see details below.
Submission by Georgina Richards
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BEST OF BRITAIN Call for Art
Just a few FAQ:
The theme is Best of Britain: Only work exploring this theme maybe selected for the publication.
Orientations and size: Postcards must be landscape orientation (not portrait) and standard postcard size. Minimum 3 ½” x 5” Maximum 4 ¼” x 6
The artwork will be displayed in a set space and the book will be landscape orientation with work printed at 100% actual size. Work which does not fit this criteria will not be shown.
You can submit as many pieces as you like!
Deadline is 20th April 2012.
See submit work for more details.
Submissions so far can be seen here: www.bestofbritainsubmissions.tumblr.com
Artwork will be judged by Tony Meuuwissen, who has had his artwork featured on Royal Mail stamps several times!
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Exhibition Date and Deadline change!
The exciting news is that the exhibition has been extended to 5 weeks, from the 30th April - 5th June 2012! So anyone submitting this means your work will be seen by even more of the 110,000 visitors the space has annually!
The down side means to ensure the publication is ready for the exhibition the deadline to submit has to be brought forward to the 20th April 2012, any work received after this date will still go into the exhibition and online but cannot guarantee entry in the publication.
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The Best of Britain Art Call is LAUNCHED!
Calling all artists, photographers, illustrators, writers, animators, fashion designers, poets, the list goes on….all mediums are encouraged to design the artwork for a stamp, which explores the theme ‘Best of Britain’.
What comes to mind when you think of Britain? What stuck out from a visit to Great Britain? What do you imagine Britain is like? What makes you British? What is the Best of Britain?
(Photograph by Martin Parr)
Just create your own stamp artwork, the size of a postcard and send it through the post, to be included in the exhibition which celebrates Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation. Please see Submit Work for details.Artwork received will be included in an online gallery, the exhibition and selected works will be published in a book.
Deadline 5th May 2012. Exhibition runs 25th May - 5th June 2012
Entry fee: the price of a stamp!
Winning entry will be featured on the front cover of the book, have a series of postcards printed, and printed on a sheet of stickers with stamps (smilers) printed by the Royal Mail. All artists names will be published on exhibition information.
See this list of ICONS for some inspiriation: ICONS of England this list which represents elements of England, from cricket, bad weather, morris dancing to the white cliffs of Dover, all of which have featured on official stamps! Or you can see the whole range of artwork ever to have appeared on stamps here: CollectGBstamps
Wondering how stamps relate to the Queen’s Jubilee see About the Project
Please contact laviniadrake@hotmail.com with any questions.
