Social media: Blogging | Professional practice

If you are considering blogging or have just started, this video guide by Chris Unitt of Meshed Media is incredibly helpful. Chris talks to Charlotte Frost about the different blogging platforms available, how to get the most from a blog, and some of the most creative and innovative artists’ blogs around.

Click on the link below:

Social media: Blogging | Professional practice | Knowledge bank | a-n

Call for Submissions - 3rd Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize

3rd Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize  @Bank Street Arts, Sheffield 
Deadline: 31st  July 2011

The Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize is a biennial, open submission exhibition, held in conjunction with and as part of the Off the Shelf Festival, which takes place in Sheffield during the months of October and November.  The Main Prize is made up of cash and an exhibition at Bank Street Arts during 2012. The winner is decided by visitors to the exhibition who are asked to vote for their favourite entry.

All books entered into the competition will be displayed in the exhibition in October 2011.  In addition to the Main Prize, we offer two further prizes, both made up of cash and exhibitions. These are decided by jury - this year's jury is made up of representatives from Bank Street Arts and headed up by Sarah Bodman from the Centre for Fine Print Research, University of Western England and Maria White for Tate Library in London.

The prizes decided by jury are the Student Prize and Special Jury Prize.

The Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize is as much about finding an interesting format in which to show and view artists' books as it is about creating a prize. The various galleries at Bank Street will be filled with armchairs, sofas, beanbags, cushions and the books themselves placed around the galleries with clear instructions for visitors, to look, read and participate.  Entry to the exhibition and prize is free; artists may submit only one book per individual maker, more than one in the case of collaborative authorship. 

The exhibition will run for 4 weeks in October and November 2011 (exact dates to be announced shortly. 

Closing date for submissions - 31st  July 2011.

For further information please send an e-mail to bookprize@bankstreetarts.com or visit the websites http://www.bankstreetarts.com/  or http://artistsbookprize.co.uk/ where full contact details can be found as well as further information about the venue, exhibition and submission procedure.

Please note: submissions will not be accepted without the submission form which can only be obtained from the website or by e-mail.

Eastbourne Festival & Artist Open Houses and Studios. April 23 - May 15

Eastbourne Festival: 23rd April – 15th May 2011

Great news! The Eastbourne Festival 2011 brochure is  now available on line. View it by clicking on  Festival Brochure. An overview of Festival events is available by clicking  Festival Calendar.

The Festival goes from strength to strength with an exciting programme on offer with appeal to a wide audience. The organisers have been delighted at the enthusiasm for Festival 2011 and the quality of events. There is a great mix of the traditional and contemporary across the arts featuring music, theatre, dance, comedy and visual arts. 

Eastbourne schools are presenting their annual Youth Arts section of the Festival and you can look forward to some exciting workshops, exhibitions and theatre from this quarter. Lots more is bubbling away and Festival 2011 is even bigger than in previous years.
This year will see the launch of the fourth phase of the festival, the “Eastbourne Festival Fringe', with some exciting events planned including the first Green Fayre in Gildredge Park. click here to visit the
associated website, www.eastbournefestivalfringe.co.uk  for further details. 

Eastbourne Festival and Eastbourne Festival Fringe not only give everyone a chance to participate but enable all strands of the arts from whatever part of the town to be drawn together, once a year, to showcase their work with others including local, regional, national and international professionals, to network with other associations in the town and to further expertise by participating in workshops including those run by Catalyst Arts, ECCN and others. 

 Eastbourne Festival Artists Open Houses and Studio Trail

23 April-15 May

Throughout the festival, Eastbourne artists will be opening their houses and studios. Nearly 100 artists and makers will be participating, individually and in groups, showcasing a variety of work.

for more information go to www.eastbourneartists.co.uk

May Bank Holiday 2011 - Where to go in East Sussex.

BATTLE CRAFT BAZAAR at the POWDERMILLS HOTEL, Battle.

1 - 2 MAY 10AM - 4PM

Artists and Makers will be spending the Bank Holiday weekend displaying there work for sale in the Pavillion suite at the beautiful and historic PowderMills Hotel.

Why not join them and enjoy a light lunch or afternoon tea in this stunning location. For those attending Jack in the Green (see below), this is a perfect place to visit before or after the parade.

The Powder Mills

www.powdermillshotel.com

The PowderMills is a stunning privately owned 18th Century listed Country House Hotel nestling in 150 acres of beautiful parklands, woods and large lakes in Battle, East Sussex

Jack in the Green Festival - Hastings Old Town  

Monday 2 May.

The Jack-in-the-Green festival in Hastings is based on a tradition which started in the 1830s, died out at the start of the 20th century, but was revived in 1979 by a group called Mad Jack's Morris Dancers. It is now an annual event which takes place during the bank holiday weekend at the start of May. On the Saturday and Sunday there are bands and Morris dancers in the pubs and streets and the May Queen is crowned, while the main event is on the Monday (a public holiday in the UK).

In 2011 the main Jack In The Green event is on Monday 2 May.

Jack is a winter form of the traditional character known as the Green Man, who represents the spirit of the forests. He is covered in twigs and leaves, with a crown on his head and a black mask on his face. He leads the procession, which starts in the Old Town of Hastings.

CALL FOR ENTRIES - The East Sussex Contemporary Art Fair 2011 RYE

Calling all artists and designer makers... only 7 days left to submit......

The East Sussex Contemporary Art Fair 2011 will take place 24 - 26 June this year at The School Creative Centre

Applications are invited from studio groups and galleries as well as individual artists and designer makers.

This year’s selectors will be

David Rhodes; curator at The De La Warr Pavillion

Nikki Tompsett; The School Creative Centre

Jo Townshend Head of Art at Rye College

Paula MacArthur; Artist and Art Fair organiser.

The sixth annual East Sussex Contemporary Art Fair is now open to submissions from professional and emerging artists, designers and makers. Galleries and artist’s groups are also eligible, please contact us for details.

The East Sussex Contemporary Art Fair is organised to help raise funds for Rye College, Arts & Enterprise Specialist School. Each year the money raised helps provide additional resources for the school. Last year’s art fair helped raise funds for a group of students to visit Ghana to gain first hand experience of what life and education are like in West Africa. As a Creative Partnerships Change School, staff at Rye College believe that a rich arts experience makes learning an enjoyment; They hope to enhance student’s learning experience further by supporting them in their ambition to create  once in a lifetime experiences.

All selected exhibitors will receive;

•Exhibition space consisting of one 4’ x 8’ screen for 2-D works, one 3’ x 6’ table for 3-D works or space in a secure glass cabinet for jewellery or small, delicate 3-D work.

•Invigilation throughout

•Promotion on 67 Contemporary Art website

•Press and publicity

•Online catalogue, click here to view last year’s exhibitors

•Private view

•Public liability insurance

• The deadline for submissions is midnight on Sunday 1 May 2011
   non-refundable application fee £10
   participation fee payable by selected exhibitors £30

1. 30% commission on sales
2. All profits will benefit Rye College’s ‘Ghana Carnival Exchange Project’
3. All staff are working voluntarily

Download the application form here;      ESCAF'11 application form.doc

For further information email info@67contemporaryart.co.uk

MIRO at Tate Modern

Miró

Tate Modern 14 April  –  11 September 2011

21st April - I am going to see this exhibition today; review to follow.....

The Tate say; "This is a must-see exhibition for 2011, filled with astonishing, beautiful and striking paintings by one of the greats of modern art"...We will see!

About the exhibition

Joan Miró's works come to London in the first major retrospective here for nearly 50 years. Renowned as one of the greatest Surrealist painters, filling his paintings with luxuriant colour, Miró worked in a rich variety of styles. This is a rare opportunity to enjoy more than 150 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints from moments across the six decades of his extraordinary career.

Miró is among the most iconic of modern artists, using a language of symbols that reflects his personal vision, sense of freedom, and energy. The exhibition includes many of the key works that we know and love. It also shows that, behind the engaging innocence of his imagery, lies a profound concern for humanity and a sense of personal and national identity. Extraordinary works from different moments of his career celebrate his roots in his native Catalonia.

The exhibition also traces an anxious and politically engaged side to Miró’s work that reflects his passionate response to one of the most turbulent periods in European history. Working in Barcelona and Paris, Miró tracked the mood of the Spanish Civil War and the first months of the Second World War in France. Under the political restrictions of Franco's Spain, Miró remained a symbol of international culture, and his grand abstract paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s became a mark of resistance and integrity in the dying years of the regime. Telling the story of Miró's life and the time he witnessed reveals a darker intensity to many of his works.

www.tate.org.uk

CALL FOR ENTRIES

 Pure Arts Group Annual Selection and ART FAIR

Annual selection call for entries NOW OPEN

Submissions close 3 JUNE 2011

Annually PURE ARTS GROUP select up to 60 artists to support and promote for a 12 month period, alongside their invited group.

Artists aged 18+ living, working or studying in London and the South East are invited to enter for 2011/2012 selection.

The 2011/2012 selection panel includes Brenda Hartill R E, artist & fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, Ali Pettit, London gallery owner and curator and Guy Portelli VPRBA, FRBS, Vice President of the Royal Society of British Artists, Governor of the Federation of British Artists and Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.

ANNUAL SELECTION - CALL FOR ENTRIES NOW OPEN


Annual Art Fair with 5 major awards and £3,000 prize fund.


Exclusive Artist-in-Residence and Mentoring opportunities

Online Gallery

Ongoing exhibition opportunities. 


Selected artists online members forum with exclusive content, including news wire, top tips and network chat .




www.pureartsgroup.co.uk

New Magazine launching soon - Call for articles from creatives

No.1 Broken

What Is This?

Idiographic is a new quarterly magazine that
collates visual and written content produced in
response to a different word each issue.
The first issue, is ‘broken’.

Idiographic was born out of a love for magazines,
a passion for editorial design, and an appreciation
of high quality production. This is all done on a non-profit economic model. We have a small team of people which contribute to the magazine, the rest is open to everyone.

The magazine is the product of subjectivity
and interpretation; showcasing a unique range
of responses to one word, all within a beautifully
designed and produced, print only magazine.

What Can I Submit?

The magazine is open to creatives of all types;
stories, articles, illustrations & photography are all
very welcome. How you interpret the word 'broken' is
completely down to you.

How Long Have I Got?

Deadline for entries is the Friday 6th May 2011

To submit something go to www.idiographic.co.uk

Turner Contemporary Margate now open to the public

Turner Contemporary Debuts in Margate, With the Help of Tracey Emin

Courtesy Getty Images

The Turner Contemporary in Margate was designed by David Chipperfield.

Courtesy Getty Images

 

Tracey Emin inside Turner Contemporary

Courtesy Getty Images

A seafront view of the Gallery

The new Turner Contemporary opened in Margate over the weekend, and native-born artist Tracey Emin was on hand for the festivities. The Margate native joined a crowd of thousands in inaugurating the Turner's  David Chipperfield-designed building, which so far has been met with both accolades and insults.

 

But whilst the building isn't as splashy as Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao, hopes are high that it will raise the profile of this seaside town in a similar fashion. 

Emin and musician Jools Holland presided over the opening, with the artist telling the crowds that "art is going to be the strongest and the best thing that has ever happened to Margate,"

The structure cost £17.5 million ($28.5 million) to build and occupies the site of a former boarding house where the English landscape artist J.M.W. Turner used to stay when visiting and painting the town.

The project has been funded by Kent County Council, Arts Council England, and the National Lottery, among others.

Devoted to mounting temporary exhibitions of new art, Turner Contemporary is debuting with a show that brings together a Turner painting of a volcano and work by six contemporary artists: Daniel Buren, Ellen Harvey, Conrad Shawcross, Russell Crotty, Teresita Fernández, and Douglas Gordon.The gallery is expected to see as many as 10,000 visitors over the weekend and in the long term that will have a significant impact on the troubled local economy.

The project has been in the works for over 20 years. Initially, Norwegian architects Snøhetta and Spence were selected in 2001, but their project was ultimately rejected in 2006 due to fears of skyrocketing costs. Chipperfield's design resembles, for better or for worse, a cluster of white-fronted sheds on the coast. The London Evening Standard's Brian Sewell trashed the building as "alien, brutal, and bleak." But Edwin Heathcote of the Financial Times — while acknowledging that the building is "not an icon" and that it "looks clunky from a distance" — deems it a success, a "civic space" that takes advantage of the natural light and is "as good a gallery as there is in Britain." Plus, "unusually for a public building in Britain," he writes, it was "completed on budget and on time."

2 Year Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute Leeds

Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowships, UK

For artists, scholars and curators
Deadline: 30 June 2011

The Henry Moore Institute is a world-recognised centre for the study of sculpture in the heart of Leeds. An award-winning exhibitions venue, research centre, library and sculpture archive, the Institute hosts a year-round programme of exhibitions, conferences, lectures, research, and publications that aim to expand the understanding and scholarship of historical and contemporary sculpture. It is a part of The Henry Moore Foundation, which was set up by Moore in 1977 to encourage appreciation of the visual arts, especially sculpture.

http://www.henry-moore.org//hmi/research/hmi-research-fellowships/overview

The Institute invites applications for a two-year fellowship, beginning in Autumn 2011.
Based at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, the focus of the Fellow’s research should be the study of pre-twentieth-century sculpture in the expanded field, paying particular attention to the ways in which history is engaged with in the present.

Research Fellowships are intended for artists, scholars and curators, working on historic and contemporary sculpture using the Institute’s library, archive of sculptors’ papers and the collection of Leeds Art Gallery. Up to 4 fellows will be given the opportunity to spend a month in Leeds to develop their own research. With access to our resources and an on-going dialogue with the Institute staff, fellows are free to pursue their own interests in a supportive and stimulating environment.
The Research Fellow will take responsibility for the research, organization and realisation of one workshop and one international conference at the Henry Moore Institute relating to their own specialist research. The Fellow will take an active role within the day-to-day activities of the Institute, assist the Research Team’s work with fellows and events, and programme one series of public talks in relation the exhibition programme.

The Henry Moore Institute Research Fellow will receive an annual grant of 21,000 GBP per annum on a fixed two-year non-renewable contract. Deadline for submissions is 30 June 2011.

Opportunity for artists - Tunbridge Wells

Exciting Festival Art/performance opportunites, Playgroup   

Contact: Emma emma@playgrouplive.com

    

Description

Playgroup Festival is a small, creative and intimate festival just near Tunbridge Wells. The festival takes place from 5-7th August
They are looking for artist installations and artist and performance based areas.
There are budgets available - The brief is fairly open and they welcome unusal, beautiful, interesting and funny ideas...
Please email for an information pack and application form.
Have a look at the website too for some more info http://playgroupfestival.com/

CALL FOR SCULPTORS

Call for Artists, Royal British Society of Sculptors

Contact: Lisa Howard, Education Manager education@rbs.org.uk

    

Description

RBS Bursary Awards 2011
The Royal British Society of Sculptors invites applications from early career sculptors for 10 Bursary Awards.

Benefits of the Award include:
• Two years of free membership of the Society
• Inclusion in the Award exhibition and catalogue
• Mentoring by senior members of the Society

Deadline for applications: 12 noon - Tuesday 17 May 2011                                 
Information and downloadable application form - www.rbs.org.uk       
                              
OR contact : Lisa Howard, Education Manager at education@rbs.org.uk or 020 7373 8615.

These awards are supported by the Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust

Interview with Cathryn Kemp by South East Open Studios 2011.

Web Success is a real Kudos

http://www.seos-art.org

Artist Cathryn Kemp talks to SEOS about her work and gaining recognition for her work through a growing web-based presence.
What is your practice?

I am a visual artist. I have moved from large-scale abstract paintings to working more conceptually; making mainly textile-based installations. I work with whichever medium best conveys the concept of each piece. For example I recently mono-printed discarded lingerie/garments that had some emotional meaning to me in a piece about personal memoir, history and emotional landscaping entitled ‘Inside Out’. I am currently working on costumes for an art film. I have deconstructed and reconstructed my vintage wedding dress and stitched poetry into it, which forms the first of six dresses. I see these pieces as extensions of, and developments from, my abstract painting. I am also a writer and this informs my work more and more.

What is your training and back ground?
I studied at Central St Martins School of Art, did my BA(Hons) Fine Art at Wolverhampton as the course was incredibly flexible and allowed for all areas of study within the Fine Art structure, then completed my MA Fine Art at Winchester School of Art in the Barcelona Studios. I also trained and worked as an author/ journalist, which is now playing an increasingly multi-dimensional role within my work, exploring literary and visual narratives.

How long have you been participating in Open Studios? What got you involved and why?
I was lucky enough to take part in SEOS 2010 and I am now an Associate Artist for 2011. I got involved after spending a couple of years being a visitor to other studios. I realised the dialogue which seemed to spring up between visitor and artist could be an interesting way to develop my art practice. It’s not often the artist gets to engage with the art-loving public. There’s rarely time at private views I find and it’s a great way to widen an artists’ appeal.

What has been your experience of SEOS?
The engagement with members of the public was hugely beneficial, the feedback was generally interesting and thoughtful and has informed my work in the months since. My work was enriched by the experience and of course the sales were nice as well!

For me, it was primarily an opportunity to develop contacts and engage with other artists. Through the Open Studios I found a film director for the art film I’m making plus cameraman, runners and lots of support and encouragement. All from having a chat in the studio!

You are not participating this year, rather opting to retain our Associate membership (formerly web only membership) what are your reasons?
I would love to have participated this year but I am too busy with exhibitions and other projects. I am curating a show in Margate alongside Pushing Print in October which is very exciting plus I am making the film and showing work in Parallax Art Fair, alongside shows at Ashdown Gallery, Saffron Gallery and I’m running workshops so there just wasn’t space this year!

You have a strong website of your own, why is having a web presence important to you?
My website, www.cathrynkemp.com is really the cherry on the social marketing cake for me. It brings together all my interests and to supplement it I am increasingly using my blog atelier-cathryn.blogspot.com as a ‘newsreel’ showing what’s going on with me on a day-to-day basis. I also tweet about my work on Twitter (@cathrynkemp) and put up things as they happen on Facebook (Cathryn Kemp). I employ all these devices to get my work out there. It’s as simple as that. The support, encouragement and feedback is incredible and also it helps get my work seen in a wider context.
Follow me on Twitter @cathrynkemp, join me on Facebook Cathryn Kemp.

You have also been featured on the Saatchi Online website, can you tell us a bit more about why you feature your work here and what has been the results and successes of this profile.
I was chosen as the Saatchi Gallery Online Critic’s Choice in 2010, which was very exciting! My work was picked by the critic Angela Marisol Roberts from my page on the Saatchi Gallery website www.saatchionline.com/profiles/index/id/115385. I decided to join the Saatchi website to raise my profile so I was thrilled when I learned I had been picked as Critic’s Choice! It was nice to have that accolade, and it was nice to feel that my work is on the right path. To read the article click here.

Is your work featured elsewhere online?
My work is featured on several websites – I have listed the main ones here:
www.saffrongallery.co.uk/artist.php?artist=Cathryn Kemp
www.artfacesussex.co.uk/Art/cathryn-kemp-saatchi-online-critic-s-choice-by-angela-mariol-roberts
www.soco.org.uk
www.galerie-talents.fr
www.cranbrookart.org.uk/KempC.html
www.saatchionline.com/profiles/index/id/115385
www.quattuordecim.co.uk, Follow Quattuordecim on Facebook
www.hastingsartsforum.co.uk/cathryn-kemp
http://atelier-cathryn.blogspot.com
None of the websites my work is listed on have any charge – they are mostly to do with projects, exhibitions or galleries I am involved with. The Saatchi Gallery site is free and entirely democratic. It’s probably the world’s biggest community of artists and well worth putting work onto.
Most blogs are free and super easy to set up, as are Twitter and Facebook.
I think it’s hard to determine where offers of work/galleries/sales really originate from so the rule of thumb is to place your work where it has integrity and value.

What is your advice to anyone thinking about building a website or online presence?
Do your research! There are lots of ways of setting up a website, from using a Wordpress blogsite disguised as a website, to buying website templates from someone like Mr Site to employing a web designer and doing it professionally. It really depends on what the artist is looking to get from a website. It may be a portal bringing together disparate elements, or a vehicle for selling and promoting work or simply to showcase work.
What are your top 10 arty websites/blogs or twitter feeds? And why?
blog.jerwoodvisualarts.org
www.axisweb.org
www.saatchionline.com
www.theartnewspaper.com
www.parkerharris.co.uk
www.turnercontemporary.org
www.friezeartfair.com
www.fabrica.org.uk/
www.artistsandmakers.com/
www.artandwriting.org/
On Twitter I follow lots ranging from Saatchi Online to Axis web, the Jerwood blog to The Art Newspaper. All of whom obviously have websites as well.

What is happening in your studio presently?
I’m currently moving into a new studio. Big upheaval but brilliant new space sharing with young, emerging artists, filmmakers and illustrators - very exciting.

I’m going through big changes with my work. I’m moving from large-scale abstract paintings to textile-based installation and photographic work. Becoming purely conceptual  is a shift I’ve been wanting within my work for a while. Very challenging and dynamic shifts in my practice, which is fantastic.

I’m also writing a memoir. I’ve been signed to a literary agent which is a major cause for celebration and heralds a new era of my work integrating and developing alongside writing and the visual devices.

What projects/other work are you working towards?
I’m currently working on an art film with incredible local talent. The film is based around T.S Eliot Prize Winner 2007 Alice Oswald’s Sea Poem. She has personally endorsed the project which features six wedding dresses constructed and stitched into the poetry. Exciting stuff.

Also I’m writing my memoir, showing a textile installation at the Parallax Art Fair, starting up print workshops, curating a conceptual print show in Margate as well as Pushing Print in October. And making work for it all hopefully!

How do you maintain a critical opinion of your work?
Keeping abreast of other artists’ critical practice is vital, as is honest and direct feedback from other artists.

How do you approach writing about your work? the artists statement.
Sitting down and writing a premis or conceit about work is a hugely important practice. I find it helps me to focus and cut out any visual waffle. It’s hard to do but ultimately rewarding.

What inspires you?
An unbridled love of fabric and the written word. Very often I take lines from novels and poetry as a starting point for my work.

How do you keep yourself fresh and your skills updated?
Hopefully by talking and engaging with contemporary art and critical practice. And by dialogue with interesting and challenging artists.

Favourite historical artist? Caravaggio or Pollock.

Favourite living artist? Lucy Brown and Tracey Emin are my favourites.


Do you work best on your own or in collaboration?
I think I work in different ways in either situation. Working alone I can be freer to explore around various concepts and ideas. Working in collaboration is as much an exercise in diplomacy and it brings a freshness and a focus to working which is also really interesting.

When and where can we see more of your work?
Coming up first is the Eastbourne Open Houses at Baslow Road Studio – each Sunday April 24-May15, 2011.  Untitled Art Fair, Chelsea, June 3-5, 2011, inclusive.  Parallax 1, La Galleria, Royal Opera Arcade, London, July 1-3, 2011.  Pushing Print Fringe, Marine Studio Gallery, Margate, Oct 7-Nov 6, 2011.  Ashdown Gallery, Jan 13-25, 2012. 
My work is currently on show at Saffron Gallery, Battle.

“THE UNSEEN”: CALL FOR ENTRIES - 1st place wins an iPad2

Deadline 16th April

iAMDA is now accepting entries for its first ONLINE EXHIBITION. They are calling all artists to submit works for “The Unseen”, an online showcase of mobile digital works that push the boundaries of what we know and have seen in the past–visually and/or creatively.

The show is juried by visual artist, Michael James Miller.  Miller’s paintings, installations, and prints investigate the continuing relationship between art and technology. He is currently an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at The University of Illinois, Springfield.

Selected works will be featured in an online exhibition hosted on iAMDA.org and will remain in the iAMDA.org exhibition archives (accessible on the site) after it closes.

Michael will also select a first place winner who will be awarded the coveted Apple iPad 2.  Four others will receive our “juror’s award”,  a $25 iTunes gift card.  All other selected artists will have the distinct privilege of having their work displayed in iAMDA’s first annual online exhibition, with name listing and site/blog links.  All works will remain in our show archives after the exhibition closes.
Winners and selected artists will be contacted prior to the show’s launch on May 1st.

To submit or learn more about the show theme, download the show’s submissions form.
Email the completed form and up to 3 images of work to iamdaexhibitions@gmail.com.

DEADLINE IS APRIL 16, 2011.

Forthcoming event: Aspex Portsmouth - Wednesday 25 May - 'Photographing Your Work, Part 1: A Maker’s Perspective'

TIPS ON PHOTOGRAPHING 3D WORK

The next arc event, coming up on Wednesday 25 May, will be 'Photographing Your Work, Part 1: A Maker’s Perspective' with successful jewellery artist, Lin Cheung.

This event is part of our series of essential skills workshops, and will look at techniques for obtaining high quality photographs of your work. 

An ‘essential skill’  if you want your work to stand out in any selection process.

Lin will discuss the issues of taking photographs of three-dimensional objects from her perspective as a maker. She will explain her approach to image making through her own work and give hints and tips on a range of issues from simple art direction through to printing of images. 

Wednesday 25 May, 6.30 to 8.30 pm aspex
For more information and to book:
T: 023 9277 8080    E: arc@aspex.org.uk

Lin Cheung is a jewellery artist.  She has a profound interest in human nature. She explores the social and personal issues that shape our lives and our relationships with the objects we own, cherish and wear. Her observations inspire a need within her practice to further understand them through the act of making.

Lin was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1971. She lives and works in London and is also a Senior Lecturer in Jewellery Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Lin has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has gained acclaim for her conceptual approach to designing and making.

www.lincheung.co.uk

Summer Exhibition opportunity for contemporary craft makers - Brighton

OPPORTUNITY FOR MAKERS OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT

Phoenix Brighton are offering a great opportunity for artists and makers working in textiles, jewellery, ceramics, and other media to take part in their summer exhibition, Twisted.  The exhibition will focus on work using the materials and techniques of traditional crafts in interesting and unusual ways.  They are looking for artists and makers who have broken away from conventional formats to present their work in installations and experimental arrangements which exploit the three-dimensional gallery space.

The opportunity is open to all uk based artists and makers and the exhibition will showcase the work of up to eight artists, each presenting a body of work.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 26 April and full information on how to apply can be found on the Phoenix website: http://www.phoenixbrighton.org/opportunities.html
 
ABOUT PHOENIX BRIGHTON:
Phoenix Brighton is an independent visual arts organisation based in central Brighton. It houses 100+ artists’ studios, arts courses and activities, and a contemporary art gallery.

TWISTED
A fresh encounter with contemporary craft
July 23 – August 21, 2011

CALL FOR ENTRIES - Pure Arts Group Annual Selection and ART FAIR

Annual selection call for entries NOW OPEN

Submissions close 3 JUNE 2011

Annually PURE ARTS GROUP select up to 60 artists to support and promote for a 12 month period, alongside our invited group.

Artists aged 18+ living, working or studying in London and the South East are invited to enter for 2011/2012 selection.

The 2011/2012 selection panel includes Brenda Hartill R E, artist & fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, Ali Pettit, London gallery owner and curator and Guy Portelli VPRBA, FRBS, Vice President of the Royal Society of British Artists, Governor of the Federation of British Artists and Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.

ANNUAL SELECTION - CALL FOR ENTRIES NOW OPEN

Art Fair with 5 major awards and £3,000 prize fund. Exclusive Artist-in-Residence and Mentoring opportunities Online Gallery Ongoing exhibition opportunities. www.pureartsgroup.co.uk

CALL FOR ENTRIES - Jerwood Drawing Prize

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011: Call for entries

Registration open 1 April - 20 June 2011

Jerwood Visual Arts and Drawing Projects UK are delighted to announce Iwona Blazwick, Tim Marlow and Rachel Whiteread as the selectors for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011.

Deadline for entries: Monday 20 June 2011 at 5pm


The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Judged by an independent panel of selectors, the Prize aims to recognise and support all UK based artists, from student to established, working in the field of drawing.

The 2011 selectors, Iwona Blazwick, Director, Whitechapel Gallery; Tim Marlow, writer, broadcaster and Director of Exhibitions, White Cube; and Rachel Whiteread, artist, will look to create an exhibition that represents and celebrates the diversity, excellence and range of current drawing practice in the UK.  From an anticipated submission of well over 2,000 entries, the selectors will bring together 50 - 70 drawings for an exhibition at JVA at Jerwood Space, London from 14 September – 30 October 2011. The exhibition will then tour nationally.

Awards include a first prize of £6,000, a second prize of £3,000 and two student awards of £1,000 each. The Awards will be announced at a private awards ceremony on Tuesday 13 September 2011.
Registration is now open. To register your application please visit: www.parkerharris.co.uk/competition/jerwood-drawing-2011

Once registered artists are invited to submit their works through one of the regional collection centres, which include London, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Cornwall, Durham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Liverpool and Norwich.

For all enquiries about the Jerwood Drawing Prize please contact Parker Harris:
T: 01372 462190
E: jdp@parkerharris.co.uk
Image: Hannah Wooll, Cut Your Hair, 2009
Background photo: John Ross, 2010

South Coast Design Forum Conference - Chichester 14 April

First Ever
South Coast Design Forum Conference

Design and the Modern Interior
Thursday 14 April, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

South Coast Design Forum is hosting a one day conference in support of an exhibition of their Patrons’ work, Robin and Lucienne Day: Design and the Modern Interior, at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester on Thursday 14 April 2011.

The Conference, sponsored by Pallant House Gallery and Kenwood, will feature a series of perspectives from invited industry speakers including Oliver Heath, Johnny Grey, Barry Jenkins and Wayne Hemingway and will ask questions such as Where do we work in the age of mobile working? Is the kitchen an evolutionary lens of home design? And What is a Home Fit for the Future?

Robin Ferraby from Kenwood, conference sponsor, will be discussing how Kenwood established its brand in the marketplace and Peter Murray will be helping to outline a vision for SCDF in the future. The day will include a retrospective on the first five years of South Coast Design Forum and a panel debate on What Will Be the Shape of the Home in the Future?

The Conference is open to SCDF members (£45) and non members (£60) and tickets can be booked via www.wegottickets.com/event/112527

Conference Schedule

10.00	Conference Opens	Registration, tea & coffee – sponsored by Kenwood
10.30 10.40	Welcome SCDF & Design and the Modern Interior	Nick Peters Wayne Hemingway
11.00	Where do you Work? Qs & As	Barry Jenkins, Broome Jenkins
11.30	Is the kitchen an evolutionary lens of home design? Qs & As	Johnny Grey
12.00	Kenwood - the story of a small appliance that became a modern British brand Qs & As	Robin Ferraby, Kenwood
12.45	Buffet Lunch - Field & Fork
13.45	SCDF 5 years Where we’ve been and Where we’re going	Peter Spence & Peter Murray
14.15	Homes Fit for the Future Qs & As	Oliver Heath
14.45	What will the Home look like in the Future?	Johnny Grey, Peter Murray, Oliver Heath, Robin Ferraby, Barry Jenkins
15.30	Conference Closes	Nick Peters

Speakers

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  Nick Peters

  Nick Peters is editor and publisher of Business First, a magazine that is distributed to top business leaders in London and to first class travellers on Eurostar and several international airlines. Before magazine publishing, Nick was a foreign correspondent covering events in Europe and the Americas for national radio, TV and newspapers.
  
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  Wayne Hemingway

  Wayne’s original education was in Geography and Town Planning before the realisation that money could be made from fashion suddenly dawned.  With his now wife Gerardine, Wayne built Red or Dead into a fashion label that received global acclaim during the 80s and 90s, before selling the company in a multi million cash deal.
  They then set up HemingwayDesign which specialises in affordable and social design with projects such as The Staiths South Bank, a mass market housing project on Tyneside for Taylor Wimpey Homes and a masterplan for 60's new town Skelmersdale.
  HemingwayDesign’s other projects have included the highly acclaimed new club for the Institute of Directors on Pall Mall, IOD at 123; the 4 Walls range of wall coverings for Graham and Brown, technology “Wet”; a tile range for British Ceramic Tiles together with product, packaging and graphic design.
  Wayne is the Chairman of Building for Life, CABE (Commission for Architecture and The Built Environment) now merged with the Design Council.  He received an MBE in 2006, is a Professor in The Built Environment Department of Northumbria University, a Doctor of Design at Wolverhampton, Lancaster and Stafford and a Fellow of Blackburn College.
  Wayne and the team put on a major new cultural event in August 2010, the wonderful ‘Vintage’ at Goodwood, which changed the face of summer festivals.
  Wayne is Chair of the South Coast Design Forum.
  
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  Barry Jenkins

  For the past 30 years Barry has worked as a design consultant starting his career working initially with Ben Fether, then Geoff Hollington and Rodney Kinsman. Followed by several years in and around the contract furniture industry, he then joined PSD associates in 1989 where he was a director until 2003 when PSD merged with Fitch. Having made the gradual move to Chichester in 2000, he started BroomeJenkins in 2003 where he now runs a small team.
  Barry has a broad experience of many business and consumer sectors, working between product design and architecture, including wayfinding and street furniture, aircraft and train interiors, contract and office furniture. Most of his work today is either for urban environments and public spaces or for the workplace. He has worked with leading clients including Virgin Atlantic, Adshel, Phillips and Herman Miller. His work has won or been nominated for various awards including FX, The Design Councils Millennium Product awards and the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award. He was one of the founding members of the South Coast Design Forum and is currently Deputy Chair. He is also a Member of the Industry Advisory Board to the newly formed National School of Furniture
  Synopsis: Where do you work?
  New technology, the economy and social change mean that we increasingly work in a variety of locations including the home. Mobility is a key aspect of work, so that by 2013 over 50% of Western Europe’s working population will be classed as ‘mobile workers’.
  The office as we know it, evolved out of the factories of the industrial revolution and came to personify commercial success and corporate image. But as we move through the 21 Century, new styles of work, and a desire to adapt space (to suit the user) is turning the idea of 9 to 5 and fixed offices up side down.
  With increased life expectancy and the pensions crisis facing most developed economies, the future office will have to suit an ageing workforce as demographic changes hit the workplace. In addition, both workforce and employers desire greater flexibility and so the design of the office is becoming less corporate, more collegiate and ultimately more welcoming.
  Providing some background to the development of the modern office, Barry will discuss the design opportunities and challenges we face in one of the most dynamic stages of workplace development since Richard Arkwright opened his Mill at Cromford in 1771.
  
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  Johnny Grey

  Johnny Grey is an architect by background, but has spent many years building up expertise as a kitchen designer. Many of his ideas, including the concept of the Unfitted kitchen, have changed the way we furnish our homes and kitchen spaces.  He is an author of four books on kitchen and interior design that have been translated into 15 languages. He is also a media and design consultant to the interior and kitchen industries and speaks on design and is a founder member and a co-director of SCDF.
  His main studio is in West Sussex, with satellite offices in San Francisco and New York. Projects are worked on all over the world. His aunt and mentor was the late food writer Elizabeth David which is how he learnt to love kitchens. He is married with four children and cooks for them regularly
  Synopsis: Is the kitchen an evolutionary lens of home design?
  The kitchen as a lens for home design' will examine how the kitchen is the now dominant room and is forcing us to plan our living spaces in a new way. From open plan to the need for sanctuary and access to the garden, we need to explore a new blueprint for designing an emotionally intelligent house with a kitchen at its heart.
  
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  Robin Ferraby - Group Marketing, Product Manager

  Robin is a Product Manager at Kenwood DeLonghi, with 10 years Industrial Design experience in both corporate and consultancy environments.
  Robin has experience working on projects for Kenwood, P&G, Hugo Boss, Smirnoff, Boots, Vidal Sassoon, Unisys, Morphy Richards and Nortel. He has an emphasis on a human-centred insight driven process, taking products from insight to production, and has experience developing and leading product direction and strategy within the corporate environment.
  His work has achieved critical acclaim and commercial success.
  Synopsis: Kenwood - the story of a small appliance that became a modern British brand
  Robin Ferraby talks about what forces have shaped the Kenwood product range and brand during the 60 year journey since Ken Wood first produced a kitchen appliance, and how it remains culturally relevant in the modern kitchen with its diversity and complexity
  
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  Oliver Heath

  Since winning the BBC Homefront Young Designer of the Year, Oliver has become a regular face on TV programmes such as BBC Changing Rooms, ITV’s Front of House and his current series for the Discovery Channel, Dream Homes.
  His architectural design practice works specialises is sustainable design and has worked with a number of developers including Bio Regional, ING Real Estate and Barratt Homes. It has designed a number of eco exhibitions for Islington Council, WRAP and most recently the Eco Home Exhibition for the Geffrye Museum, London.
  He is the author of 3 books, his most recent Urban Eco Chic (Quadrille) which demonstrates the practical and aesthetic issues surrounding eco interiors. He was also a founder of www.ecocentric.co.uk, an online store specialising well designed sustainable products for the home.
  The refurbishment of his own 1960’s detached home in Brighton has seen CO2 emissions drop by over 62% and has recently been awarded the British Institute of Interior Design’s Retrofit award, elegantly displaying how efficient and nurturing spaces can come together to create homes fit for the future.
  www.oliverheathdesign.com
  Synopsis: Homes Fit for the Future
  Our homes account for just under 27% of the UK carbon emissions but the governments national targets are to reduce these by 80% by 2050. Whilst reaching these targets is critical, efficiency alone will not create “better homes”, however it is in danger of dominating our design focus. Good design should always be a balance of form and function to create spaces that are both efficient but also nurturing. Oliver Heath will be exploring the wider picture of what makes better homes, and those we can truly call fit for the future.
  
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  Peter Spence

  Peter is Director of the South Coast Design Forum, the independent not-for-profit networking group for designers on the south coast with its office in Chichester, West Sussex.
  After a career in sales and management with the Royal & SunAlliance insurance group in a variety of locations across the UK, Peter ran the business education charity Young Enterprise in West Sussex. He then spent 6 years in the economic development service at Chichester District Council where, with a colleague, he was instrumental in setting up the South Coast Design Forum which was aimed at addressing some of the economic imbalances within the region.
  SCDF now has nearly 400 members drawn from designers of all disciplines and has quickly developed a reputation as one of the leading organisations of its type in the country.
  Peter was named in Design Week’s Hot 50 as one of the industry figures ‘making a difference’. He has also been a contributor to the Design Council review recently presented to government. Peter is frequently consulted by the Design Council in respect of support for the design sector in the regions, is a regular contributor to Design Week and is a member of the South East Council of RIBA
  
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  Peter Murray

  Trained as an architect, Peter has spent his career in the world of communications as it relates to architecture. He was editor of Building Design and the RIBA Journal before co-founding Blueprint magazine in 1983. He also started Eye and Tate magazines. He is currently chairman of Wordsearch www.wordsearch .co.uk  the international design and marketing consultancy which specialises in places, property and architecture. Peter is also director of the London Festival of Architecture, the curator of New London Architecture at the Building Centre, a director of South Coast Design Forum and editor of Pidgeon Digital, an internet archive of talks by leading architects.
  His wife Jane Wood commissioned Thomas Heatherwick to design Littlehampton’s popular East Beach Café. They also re-developed the cafe at West Beach and were the prime movers in establishing the ‘longest bench..........’ All three projects have helped place Littlehampton firmly on the design map.
  

COAL Prize Art & Environment 2011 - Apply Now - Closes 30 April

COAL PRIZE ART&ENVIRONMENT 2011: APPLY NOW!
Deadline 30 April 2011


Call for artists to submit proposals for projects focusing on the environment.

The COAL Art & Environment prize was launched in 2010 by the French association COAL, the coalition for art and sustainable development, to reward a project about the environment by a contemporary artist.

The winner is chosen by a jury of personalities from the worlds of contemporary art, research, ecology and sustainable development, out of 10 finalists selected from an international call for entries.
The COAL Prize 2011, worth 10 000 euros, comes under the auspices of the french Ministry of Culture and Communication, the National Centre of Fine Arts (CNAP), and enjoys the support of PwC and a private benefactor.

Special mention : To mark 2011 the International Year of the Forest and promote entries on this theme in 2011, a second prize will reward entries that focus on forest issues.

Schedule
The call for entries opened on 1 December 2010.
The application period closes on 30 April 2011.
The prize will be awarded in May 2011.
Environment
Today, environmental degradation represents a growing concern, covering a very wide field:
- resource management and depletion: water, energy, waste...
- crisis factors: system of production and consumption, pollution, demographics, land use...
- environmental crises: climate change, rising water levels, loss of biodiversity...
- conceptual framework: environmental law, shared assets, social justice, community harmony...
Jury and selection committee
The 2011 juryand selection committee are currently being assembled.
Are already confirmed :
Bernard Blistène, directeur du département du développement culturel du Centre Pompidou et directeur artistique du Nouveau Festival.
Dominique Bourg, philosopher;
Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, president of the National Centre of Fine Arts;
Patrick Degeorges, Biodiversity department, Ministry of ecology
Eva Hober, Art dealer;
Philippe Jousse, Art dealer;
Sacha Kagan, Founder Cultura21
Sylvain Lambert, PwC associate, sustainable development service
Laurence Tubiana, founder of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations(IDDRI)
Theresa Van Wuthenau, coordinatrice du réseau Imagine2020
Selection of entries
The entry selection criteria take stock of the artistic value, relevance (understanding the issues), originality (ability to introduce novel approaches, themes, and points of view), pedagogy (ability to get a message across, to raise awareness), a social and participative approach (engagement, testimony, efficiency, societal dynamics), eco-design, feasibility.
An artist’s specialisation on the environment is not a selection criterion. The aim of the prize is to encourage artists to focus on environmental issues.
An internationally renowned scientific committee
As part of the call for entries, COAL is organizing a meeting between artists and members of the scientific committee, with a view to providing tailored guidance. This scientific committee is made up of:
Edouard Bard, climatologist, Collège de France, science academy, CNRS
Nathalie Blanc, geographer, CNRS UMR LADYSS
Dominique Bourg, philosopher, IEP, UTT, member of the ecology watch committee of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation,
Denis Couvet, ecologist, MNHN, polytechnic,
Alain Grandjean, associate director, Carbone 4, member of the ecology watch committee of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation.
Coal prize award ceremony
The COAL Art & Environment Prize ceremony is a unique event held in a symbolic location, attended by the artist finalists and personalities from the world of art and sustainable development.
Entries by artist finalists are displayed to promote networking with bodies and authorities, which could facilitate the future realisation of projects.
Support for entries after the COAL prize
Beyond the award ceremony, the COAL prize is an opportunity to promote the entries and artists involved and to demonstrate the creative potential of fine arts with regards to the environment and related issues.
COAL fosters the networking of artists with scientists and stakeholders, and produces, encourages and promotes the numerous entries to the COAL Prize at exhibitions, events and commissions.
Application package
This should comprise the following documents, assembled in a single PDF file:
- A Curriculum Vitae and artistic dossier;
- A summary and illustrated description of the entry, detailing its artistic aspects and its relevance to the environment;
- A note on the technical aspects of the entry, notably in terms of the construction and means of production;
-An estimated budget.
Submission
Deadline 30 April 2011
All proposals should be submitted to the COAL FTP server  - http://www.projetcoal.fr/upload/  before 30 April 2011.
Particular conditions
By entering this competition, applicants expressly authorize the COAL association to publish, reproduce and display in public all or part of the elements of their entry, for any purposes linked to the promotion and communication of the COAL project, on all platforms, media, in all countries and for the LEGAL DURATION OF THE COPYRIGHT. Entries submitted but not selected will be held in the archives of the COAL association. They will, however, remain the property of their authors.
Participation in this call entails the full acceptance of the conditions laid out above.

Contact
COAL http://www.projetcoal.fr
For any further requests please write to contact@projetcoal.fr
For more information
http://coal.blogspirit.com/award-prix-coal-2011/

OPEN SUBMISSION - Exhibition in London 23 June - 7 July - Open to all artists working in all artforms

Exhibition and event opportunity, London

Netil House - 23 June - 7 July 2011
Deadline: 30 May 2011
Submissions are now welcome for the new exhibition and event due to take place at Netil House. Netil House was a 50,000 sqft office space situated near London Fields and Broadway Market, E8. In the heart of the arts community Netil House has now been transformed and become a thriving creative hub in the East End.

Submit2gravity will be holding the event in the gallery which is located on the ground floor. The gallery has an impressive 6000sqft of floor space with 50ft high vaulted ceilings and wireless / broadband connection.

Submit2gravity create unique exhibitions and events attracting insiders of the art industry as well as a wide range of audiences. For this event they are looking for a broad range of artists working in all media.

More Information
http://www.submit2gravity.com/
Details for applying
Who: All artists working in all artforms.
Where: Netil House, 1 Westgate Street, London E8
When: 23 June - 7 July 2011
Fee: Free to exhibit
Charges: Submission fee of £10 for up to 3x pieces of work.
Deadline date: 30 May 2011

How to apply:
Send images of three pieces of artwork along with details and dimensions. This can be sent on CD-Rom, slides, or prints. Also include a brief artist statement and your CV. If you are sending video, ensure this is compatible with a mac and runs longer than 20min.

Please include a SAE (stamped addressed envelope) should you require any slides, CD's or prints returned.

Submission fee of £10 is per artist or group and is for up to 3x pieces of artwork (non refundable). Cheques must be made payable to Gravity. You can also pay via Paypal to submit2gravity@yahoo.co.uk.

If you send your application by post and have paid via Paypal please state this in a covering letter with your name and reference of Paypal payment.

You can also send your submission via email to subs@submit2gravity.com, (please ensure that you process your payment prior to sending application). Each image must be no larger than 300kb, video files no larger than 600kb and keeping attachments to a minimum. Please do not send any links to websites.

Please bear in mind traffic to this email address maybe busy so please await an email of confirmation stating your submission has been received.

Sending applications by post to: Submit2gravity, PO Box 47495, London N21 3XS
If you have any further queries please email: info@submit2gravity.com

The Sunday night TOP TIPS slot goes to.... "proper brush cleaning" - An artists own guide.

How to Clean your Paint Brushes after Oil Painting

An artist’s most valuable tools are his or her brushes, and to keep a paintbrush lasting as long as possible it’s important to get all the paint out of the bristles after painting.

An artists own guide to thorough brush cleaning by Dan of Empty Easel:


First get some paint thinner, turpentine, or mineral spirits—ideally you should already have some on hand to mix with linseed stand oil for painter’s medium. Pour a little bit of the thinner into a small container which you can seal up afterward; you’ll be able to use the same amount of thinner for a long time.

You’re also going to need some liquid soap—I use regular hand soap most of the time, but I’ve also used Mona Lisa Pink Soap in the past and they both work well. The Pink Soap has some bristle conditioner mixed in, so it may prolong the life of your brushes better than regular hand soap.

Of course, you won’t need the thinner or soap until you get all the excess paint out of your brushes. Here’s where a little finger strength comes in handy. Take your brush with one hand and a piece of newspaper with the other, wrapping the newspaper around the metal part of the brush.

Then, just squeeze as tightly as possible, starting right at the base of the bristles, while pulling the brush back through your fingers. Get as much paint as you can out of the brush.

Go ahead and do it a few times, and especially try to remove all the paint that’s stuck close to the ferrule (the metal part of the brush.)

You should end up with splotches of paint all over your newspaper and a lot less of the paint left in your brush.

Next, take your brush over to the small container of paint thinner and dip it in, scrubbing across the bottom of the container to loosen more paint.

Repeat the squeezing technique with more newspaper, but be warned that it can get a little messier this time around since your brush will have picked up a lot of the liquid thinner. You should see a quite a bit more color flowing out of the bristles however.

Once you’ve squeezed out the thinner a few times your paintbrush will probably have a little more of its original color back, but there’ll still be a paint stain left from the oils.

To finish cleaning the brush, pump some liquid soap into the palm of one hand and hold the paintbrush with your other.

Scrub the brush back and forth across your palm, letting the soap penetrate the bristles to pull out more oil pigment. When the soap gets too contaminated by the paint, rinse both your hand and the brush with water, then get more soap and begin scrubbing again.

Repeat the process until the soap doesn’t change color in your palm, proving that there’s no more oil paint stuck in the brush.
(NOTE: If you’re concerned about possible absorption of Cadmium into your skin during this stage, you could use disposable gloves.)

Rinse out all the soap and use your newspaper one last time to get most of the water out of the bristles.
It’s important to clean your brushes immediately after you finish painting, even when you’re tempted to let them sit for a day or two. Letting them soak in paint thinner isn’t a good alternative either; it will just weaken the glue holding the bristles in place.

Although it may seem like a lot of effort, good care and cleaning of your brushes will help them last longer and stay functional throughout their lifespan—keeping you from the frustration of using worn out tools, and ultimately saving you money.

The School Creative Centre - Rye Writers Hub.

Rye Hub for New Writing South

Co-ordinated by local writer Roy Apps, the hub will provide emerging and professional writers from all media with a focal point from which to organise networking and development opportunities.
Regular lunches with guest speakers last Tuesdays of the month. 12 - 2pm.

Contact

The School Creative Centre
New Road
Rye, East Sussex
TN31 7LS

info@theschoolcreativecentre.co.uk
01797 229 797