The Still And Me: Fruit Open Call
Deadline for this Open Call is 11:59pm GMT on January 6th, 2025.
Open Call for Artists
The Mill Gallery presents The Still & Me Exhibition: Fruit
Still Life offers artists, a way to hone their skills with objects that remain still. It’s a subject that comes in many forms and that is frequently taught allowing for experimentation. We know every artist has a different take on the subject – so, come and show us your still life arrangements! We want to see still life drawings, fruit, vegetables, flowers, skulls, and vessels and more. Surprise us with a modern day artwork inspired by a 16th century subject.
We have four open calls to look forward to which include four different subjects surrounding still life – fruit, land, bodies and animals. This open call is for the theme fruit.
We are looking for artists and creatives working with any medium but not restricted to (painting, sculpture, photography, drawing and print).
We charge a fee of £25 for 5 artworks. The Mill Gallery Curators will select up to 20 artworks to take part in each exhibition.
The exhibition will be open to the public for one month in February 2025. The Mill Gallery is currently in the last phases of construction so exact dates will be announced once the deadline has passed.
Alongside the exhibition we will be hosting a series of still life workshops from life drawing to painting. (Workshop dates to be announced).
If selected all artwork deliveries are to be arranged with the gallery using an appointment system.
To Apply:
Please complete this Application Form and fill in our Equal opportunities form.
Terms and Conditions:
1. Deadline for this Open Call is 11:59pm GMT on September 19th, 2024. We strongly recommend that you do not leave your submission until the last moment. Entries cannot be accepted after the deadline.
5. We charge a non-refundable fee of £25 for 5 artworks. Please make sure you have paid your submission fee before the deadline date.6. We charge 40% commission from any sales made during the exhibition. All proceeds from the exhibition are used for the promotion and exhibition. We rely on submission fees and commission on sales to run the gallery and the continuation of the programme of exhibitions. We would like to discourage artists wanting to submit artworks NFS as we are a commercial gallery.
7. If your artwork sells during the exhibition the artist will be notified and paid at the end of the exhibition. The artwork will be available to collect by the customer at the end of the exhibition.8. Works must be delivered to the gallery by the date agreed with the artist. Artwork delivered after the agreed date will not be included in the exhibition.
9. All unsold work must be collected by the agreed date. Please note we have limited storage space so if work is not collected within agreed time frames there will be a storage cost of £5 per day.
Participants agree that any works left at The Mill Gallery after 30 days will be deemed unwanted and therefore be added to the charity auction lot list or disposed of.
10. The Mill Gallery are not liable for any loss or damage incurred to the artwork when exhibited or in storage and advises all artists to seek their own insurance.
11. All artworks must be hangable with our hanging system. You can find more information about our gallery here: https://www.aireplacestudios.com/tips-for-exhibitions/
12. If possible please frame 2D artwork. The Mill Gallery has an in-house framing service so if your artwork is accepted please contact the gallery to arrange.