Just had the hard copy of Call for Enteries 2011 from Mall Galleries. I Can’t find any explanation as to why I should, as an artist over 35, pay twice as much per work as an artist under 35?
I am also not sure that the finances stack up in any way that I can make sense of. If I decide to put work forward it will cost £72.00 for six works, about £200.00 for framing and£200.00 to get them down to London. With incidental expenses about a £500.00 investment.
Given the numbers of enteries the odds of getting work selected is pretty slim and the possibility of making a sale? Added to this there is a 45% commission + 20% to be added to the price of the work if a sale is made.
The answer seems to be to make a living as an artist you have to be perpetually under 35, live in Lodon and be a very luky gambler.
