Exhibition success! Two entries in the Harrogate Mercer Art Gallery Open Exhibition have been accepted. http://tiny.cc/4j1g6
A charcoal drawing (how retro) Out of the Forest and Shadow, a small painting acrylic on canvas. Is acrylic as souless to you as it is to me? Oil is a much more living medium.
I read elsewhere a comment that unsuccessful entrants for exhibitions should get their money back. Is this unrealistic? I think so, the entry fee is a commitment you make to back up your professional work. All exhibitions are a form of advertising, and indeed for many people are vanity publishing.
It is very costly to maintain premises and put on exhibitions; if the gallerist (yuk term) is carrying the costs of paying the selection panel and all the other overheads then the entry fee for the artist is a small contribution to those costs.
Mind you, the entry fees I have paid over the past 12 months to various organisations begin to add up to a significant investment.
I heard a young artist declare ‘as an emerging artist I should get funding’. Why? Do emerging plumbers get funding? Artists are artisans, workers, professionals of one sort or another. Learn your trade, get work, get paid. Now, where did I put that sponsorship form?
