119th Bath Society of Artists Open Exhibition Prizes:

• Bath Society of Artists Prize (£2,000)
• Bath Society of Artists Runner up prize (£1,000)
• The Public Choice Prize (£600)
• Bath Society of Artists Young Artists Prize (£500)
• Bath Society of Artists Prize for a 3D work (£350)
• Bath Society of Artists Painting Prize (£350)
• Bath Society of Artists Drawing Prize (£350)
• Bath Society of Artists Print Prize (£350)
• Bradford Gallery Figurative Prize (£250)
• St Cuthberts Mill Works on Paper Prize (20 sheets of Saunders Waterford CP(NOT) 300gsm, (worth £165)
• Bath Artist Printmakers - The Wendy Batt Young Artist Printmakers Prize (3 months BAP membership worth £165)
• Meltone Gallery Small Picture Framing Prize – (£100 Gift Voucher)
• Pegasus Art Prize – (£100 Gift Voucher)
• Minerva Art Supplies Prize (£50 Gift Voucher)

Invited artist: Peter Randall-Page RA RSA RBS FRSS RWA.

Prize judges: Hamish Young RWA MRSS and Jon Benington, former Manager of the VAG. Judging of awards will take place on Friday 11th October 2024. Peter Slade will judge the Bradford Gallery prize and a representative of BAP will select their prize winner.

Entry Pricing and Concessions for non-members:

Standard:

• All submissions by online entry via OESS
• Maximum number of entries: 2
• Single entry £15.00
• Additional entry £15.00

Young Artists 25 years or under:

• Young artists may submit up to 2 works at £5 per work – please be sure to provide your date of birth, where applicable.

Terms and Conditions:

Submissions:

• Any UK artist may submit work.
• Entries may include paintings, pastels, drawings, editioned prints; mixed media, sculpture (but not photography, performance, or video). Digital prints and collaborative artworks maybe submitted (See Additional Information).
• Edition prints must be limited to maximum of 150.
• Exhibits must be original, the artist’s unaided work.
• Work should not have been exhibited at any previous BSA Open Exhibitions.
• All works must be for sale for a minimum of £100, except for unframed prints. There is no ceiling on sales prices.
• Prices must include the cost of the frame (where appropriate).
• The Gallery can only sell framed prints hung in the gallery, so cannot offer any additional framed prints for sale, only unframed ones.
• Works should not be larger than 183cm (6ft) along the longest dimension, (including frame if appropriate).
• Commission rate is 45% (Bath Society of Artists is not VAT registered).
• Printmakers will be responsible for the cost of a tracked delivery service when sending unframed edition prints to the buyer, which should be reflected in the sales price.
• Photos of submitted work need to be in jpg, jpeg or png format, be no more than 5mb file size and should not include the frame.
• A video of 3D work can be uploaded to either YouTube or vimeo and a link provided on the entry form.
• All work such a diptychs and triptychs, and complex/delicate 3D work may require special instructions for the hanging team (if selected) regarding layout to prevent errors or damage. This can be recorded on the entry form.
• Whatever is on the entry form will also appear on your labels and the catalogue (if selected), so please avoid using all capitals, unless essential.
• Please ensure your details are recorded accurately before confirming your application. If you decide to withdraw before the submission closes, then contact the Secretary who will arrange a refund.
• Incomplete submissions will be deleted after 5.00pm on 28th August 2024, so be sure to finish your entry or contact the Secretary/OESS if you are experiencing any difficulties.
• Refunds will not be permitted beyond the submission deadline.

Collaborative work:

• Collaborative artwork will be listed in the catalogue according to the surname of the first named artist.
• Each collaborative work submitted counts as one entry for each artist involved.
• A submission fee is payable for each collaborative work

Selection:

• First stage online selection will be carried out by a panel of BSA members.
• Final stage 2D Selection panellists: Guest selectors Lucy Austin RWA and Bryony Cox of White Chalk Gallery, Devizes, together with Nathalie Levi Senior Curator of the Victoria Art Gallery, Malcolm Ashman RWA RBA PBSA and BSA members, Hilary Paynter, Patrick Hallissey, David Cobley, Leslie Glenn-Dahmus and Alex Nash.
• Final stage 3D Selection panellists: Guest selector Clare Day and BSA members Iain Cotton, Stephen Daniels, Olivia Clifton-Bligh and Holly Bennett.
• All works will be selected for the exhibition anonymously.
• Once the selectors have made their decisions it is the artists’ responsibility to log back into OESS and check their results.
• The decision of Selectors on all matters is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Notifications:

• Full details of artworks called for handing in days and/or work subsequently accepted for the exhibition, will be shown in the artists personal OESS online account.
• Once the exhibition in the Gallery has formally opened, all exhibiting artists will be allowed to enter the Victoria Art Gallery free of charge.

Fixings & Labels:

• Wall hanging works should be framed or stretched on a support suitable for the attachment of mirror plates, if selected.
• Metal frames or unframed glass will not be accepted.
• Perspex boxes for wall mounted works are acceptable if instructions for fixing is provided.
• If pre-selected and asked to deliver works to the gallery, there must be no protruding elements except for the Mirror plates.
• Labels may be printed from the artist’s online account.
• Labels must be firmly attached to the back of all 2D work, and another attached by string to hang 6in/15cm over the front from the top, with artists name, telephone number, email address, title, and price of work.
• For 3D work, it is important to fix a label to the base of your work. If it is not possible to use a large label with all the information included above, then a clearly readable name and telephone number will suffice. In addition, a luggage type label with all the contact details, as above, tied onto string securely looped over the work would also be helpful. These stringed labels will be removed if the work is accepted into the gallery.

Delivery & Collection:

• Invited handing-in day work can be posted/couriered/hand delivered to the Gallery on either 4th or 5th October 2024. Work will not be accepted outside of those dates.
• Couriers need to report to the Gallery’s accessible side entrance in Bridge Street. Parking on the opposite side of Bridge Street to the Gallery is for dropping off only. Vehicles left for ten minutes or more, without a disabled parking badge, run the risk of a parking ticket.
• Work submitted on handing in days must be completely dry, sale worthy and if hung, ready to be collected by a prospective buyer at the end of the show.

Suggested couriers include:

• Artmove – Storage, Installation, Transportation, Hanging Fine Art
• Fine Art Movers UK Wide - Aardvark Art Transport Services - (aardvarkartservices.com)
• A S Elvin Transport Ltd 
• JD Art Transport
• 3Lanes - Art Transportation, Artists Studios, Online Gallery
• Van Go Art Couriers – Fine Art Couriers – Art Courier UK
• Fine Art Courier - Evo Logistics
• DPD Online | Send a Parcel (dpdlocal-online.co.uk)
• Same Day Delivery Bath | Avon Express Couriers (couriersbath.co.uk)

• Sculptures should be both stable and safe to exhibit and if heavy (please not heavier than two people can easily manage), be provided with some means of easy transition across the Gallery floor.
• Physical handing in days are Friday 4th October for members and couriers and Saturday 5th October for non-members.
• All works submitted must be correctly labelled.
• There should be no projections of any kind on the back of work, except for the attachment of mirror plates. Please be sure to put masking tape over the mirror plate screws before handing in your work.
• Check out this link for more information about sourcing and fixing mirror plates https://makingamark.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-to-hang-painting-using-mirror-plates.html
• All 2D work accepted on handing in day must be fitted with mirror plates. Any work that cannot support the attachment of mirror plates, or another suitable fixture, maybe rejected.
• Packaging from delivered works cannot be retained and must be taken away at the point of delivery.
• Artists who have one work hung and one declined will not be required to collect the declined work until the end of the show, thus saving unnecessary travel.
• Work to be couriered back to the artist must be collected by the artists’ representative on either of the handing back dates. Artists will need to contact the gallery in advance, so staff have time to pack up the work. It will not be possible to negotiate around these dates, as the gallery will need to have all artworks removed by close of day on Monday 13th January 2025. Contact  victoria_enquiries@bathnes.gov.uk

Insurance:

• Whilst the Exhibition organisers will take every possible care of works in the Gallery, they cannot undertake any responsibility whatsoever for any loss of, or damage to, works entrusted to them.
• All artworks submitted are at the artist owner’s risk. Artists are therefore advised to insure their works against all risks. 

Sales & Payments:

• There will not be a facility to purchase artwork online via the Victoria Art Gallery website this year.
• If an entered work is sold during the call to artists period, then a replacement work maybe entered. However, no swaps will be accepted if a sale occurs after 5.00pm on 28th August 2024. Equally, the entry fee will not be refundable after submissions have closed.
• Any private sale that occurs on or after selection day (and the notification of acceptance to hang) will incur the normal commission rate and must be paid for via the Gallery. This condition applies until the close of the Exhibition. In this situation, no substitution can be accepted.
• All sold artwork must remain in the gallery until the exhibition closes.
• Payments to artists, who sell their work during the exhibition, will be paid by the BSA once the appropriate BANES Council payment has cleared the BSA’s bank account (please allow up to three months).
• Where a collaborative work sells, payment in full will be made to the artist whose name is entered first on the online form.

Additional Information:

Data Protection:

The contact details you provide as part of your submission will be shared with appropriate staff members of OESS/BANES/Victoria Art Gallery/ Bath Society of Artists and as needed by buyers, for the purposes of showing, selling and delivery of all listed and purchased works from the gallery. Your information will not be shared with any other parties other than those already mentioned. By submitting work, you are also accepting these conditions.

Copyright/Intellectual property:

The copyright and all other intellectual property rights to works, will remain the property of the artist and any enquiries in relation to such rights will be referred to the artist. The Exhibition organisers have the right to copy and/or reproduce works submitted and to communicate and/or issue such copies to the public in connection with the exhibition, for advertising the sale of artworks, for general marketing or promotional purposes, and other related activities, including without limitation, the incorporation of images of artworks within promotional and marketing materials, catalogues, posters, or on Exhibition organisers websites and any social media site now known or hereafter devised.

Images:

• If taking a photo rather than using a professional photographer, take the photo in natural light (but not in direct sunlight – an overcast day is best if taking the photo outside) without using a flash and square on to the work. Ideally, use simple photo editing software to crop any background and frame. For three-dimensional work please take against a plain background or alternatively take a short video.
• The upload time of images may take a little time depending on your internet speed, so do give it time. If you are having problems uploading your images please resize your image to approximately 1600 pixels wide and then save as a new file. Image file names should not be too long and should not contain any invalid characters such as + = & “ ‘ etc.

Digital:

• Digitally generated works are admissible and may be presented in print form. We are not able to accept photography, performance, or video works.
• Editions of digitally generated prints are allowed in the same way as any other kind of print media eg lino, etching etc.  These prints should be executed using light fast archival pigment-based inks on high quality paper.
• Prints made with standard dye-based inks will not be accepted, because they fade very quickly.
• It must be stressed that we will not accept serial or singular reproductions of finished paintings, illustrations, or drawings. Specifically this refers to paintings, illustrations or drawings which have been photographed with the intention of selling an edition of reproductions of that original.
• Neither will it be acceptable to make a minor adjustment to an original painting, drawing or collage in order to enter it as a digital work.
• We acknowledge that any digital process requires a starting point and to this end, such works will inevitably contain elements of photography or scanned drawing, painting, or collage. The main emphasis of the work must be on the subsequent digital process for it not to be assessed as a reproduction of an original generated in other media. The only exception to this would be where an original work, sculpture, or painting, is photographed and the original is intentionally destroyed as part of a genuine creative process, such that the digital record is the only way in which the work exists. In this case, the individual work will be reviewed by the committee and each case considered on its own merits.
• Collaborative digital artworks may also be submitted under the same guidelines.
• The selectors’ decision in all regards will be final.

Bath Society of Artists:

For further information about the Bath Society of Artists, its members and previous exhibitions please visit www.bsaorg.uk or contact the Secretary by email at secretary@bsaorg.uk or call 07976 380147.

For information concerning membership, please see details provided under ‘Members’ and ‘On Membership’ on the website www.bsaorg.uk

Instagram: @bathsocietyofartists
Facebook: @BathSocArtists

Sponsors & Partners:

Bath Society of Artists would like to thank all those involved in making this exhibition possible.

In particular, we would like to thank our sponsors including:

• Victoria Art Gallery
• Meltone Gallery, Bath
• Pegasus Art Supplies UK
• Minerva Art Supplies
• St Cuthberts Mill
• Peter Slade, Bradford Gallery
• Bath Artist Printmakers

We also want to thank the following for their help and support:

• Invited artist: Peter Randall-Page RA RSA RBS FRSS RWA
• Guest selectors: Lucy Austin RWA, Bryony Cox of White Chalk Gallery, Clare Day
• Prize Judges: Hamish Young RWA MRSS, Jon Benington former Manager of Victoria Art Gallery, Peter Slade of Bradford Gallery and Bath Artists Printmakers
• Nathalie Levi, Katharine Wall and the staff at the Victoria Art Gallery
• Jacob Tindall and colleagues at BANES
• OESS
• Ralph Allen Press
• Together with all the volunteer member artists who have offered to take part in the selection process and assist in the gallery.

Please Note: The above terms and conditions are provided by the exhibition organisers.

For terms and conditions which apply to the use of the OESS entry system please view below:
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