This is the third of my posts this week about annual open exhibitions of leading national art societies and how you can improve your chances of selling your art.
This post is about the "other" national art societies:
- The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture
- The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts
and the "other" specialist art societies - also exhibiting at the Mall Galleries in 2025
- Society of Graphic Fine Art
- Society of Women Artists
- Society of Botanical Artists
This follows on from my first two posts which were:
- OPEN EXHIBITION 2025 REMINDER #1: (Mall Galleries) - about the call for enries for the open annual exhibitions by FBA Societies held at the Mall Galleries between January and June 2025
- Pricing your art for Open Exhibitions - a review of a sample of exhibition metrics for 2024 - about what past performance on sales at the annual exhibitions held by FBA Societies on 2025.
The second post - about pricing - provides some invaluable information about sales in relation to prices across all the FBA societies. It's of much relevance to those submitting artwork for ALL open exhibitions at the Mall Galleries
OTHER NATIONAL ART SOCIETIES
The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture | RSA Annual Exhibition
- Website: https://www.royalscottishacademy.org/
- Call for Entries: https://royalscottishacademy.oess1.uk/Home/Index/575
- Regulations: https://www.royalscottishacademy.org/usr/library/documents/main/ox_art_regulations_25_1.pdf
- Open Art FAQs
- International Exhibitor information
- Deadline for Entries: 5pm on 6th February 2025
- Exhibition: 3rd May - 8th June
- Venue: Royal Scottish Academy
- Who can enter: Any artist aged 18 or over may enter, from anywhere in the world.
- What can you enter:
- up to TWO works in any size and in any fine art media.
- Original prints are encouraged but reproductions are not
- all work muse be a living artist and completed in the last 8 years
- all work must be for sale
- NOT previously exhibited in London
- Framed and unframed works are accepted. Latter must be supplied with hanging instructions
- Not Eligible for Entry:
- No reproductions of original work and
- no works that have previously been exhibited at the RSA, or any other exhibition in the RSA building,
- Pricing:
- price of art on submission form is the wall price ie price paid by buyer
- minimum price of £300
- Prints only – framed £180, unframed £120
- 40% commission + VAT charged on all sales
- Entry Fee:
- Standard: £20 per artwork for a maximum of 2 artworks
- Young person under 26 / Student / Recent Graduate: £10 per artwork for a maximum of 2 artworks
- Hanging Fee: a £10 hanging fee must be paid online at Pre-selection or on delivery of the work in cash.
- Delivery:
- Artists may not hand in different or substitute works to those that have been pre-selected.
- Works must be unwrapped before handing to RSA staff and all packing must be removed from the gallery.
- Work will not be received outside the stated hours.
- Reasons to enter:
- the largest and longest-running annual exhibition of contemporary art and architecture in Scotland
- pre-eminent exhibition for all Scottish artists
- longer exhibition than other national art societies (although not as long as the RA's equivalent of the Summer Exhibition)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts | 195th RHA Annual Exhibition
- Website: https://rhagallery.ie/
- Call for Entries: https://rhagallery.ie/rha-annual/
- Application / submission: https://royalhibernianacademy.oess1.uk/
- Deadline for Entries: 23 February 2025, 11:59pm
- Exhibition: 26 May - 3 August 2025
- Venue: Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2 D02 A213, Ireland
- Who can enter: Any artist aged 18 or over may enter, from anywhere in the world. Work is accepted from outside the EU - subject to payment of all relevant taxes.
- What can you enter:
- painting, print, sculpture, drawing, photography, mixed media and architectural models.
- all work must be professional presented (unwrapped)
- all work must be for sale (except re portraits)
- The work should not have been exhibited previously in Dublin with the exception of Graduate Exhibitions
- INELIGIBLE: Reproductions of existing artworks are not eligible.
- Pricing:
- no direction on minimum prices
- 35% commission charged on all sales
- Entry Fee:
- non-refundable submission fee of £20 per work
- Reasons to enter:
- Ireland’s largest and longest running exhibition of visual art
- I don't personally know a lot about this exhibition other than it's the Irish version of the RA's Summer Exhibition.
OTHER SPECIALIST ART SOCIETIES
Society of Graphic Fine Art
The SGFA exists to promote fine art drawing skills, to this end the selection committee will be looking for strong evidence of drawing in the work submitted
- Website: https://sgfa.org.uk/
- Call for Entries: https://sgfa.oess1.uk/
- Deadline for Entries: 5pm on 4th January 2025
- Exhibition: 10th - 14th March 2025
- Venue: Mall Galleries
- Who can enter: visual artists working in any medium who demonstrate evidence of drawing.
- What can you enter:
- Any original artwork
- MUST demonstrate evidence of drawing by hand
- In any monochrome or colour drawing medium i.e. pencil, watercolour, oils, coloured pens and pencils, pen and ink, pastels and oil pastels, charcoal, conté, or any of the forms of original printmaking and 3-Dimensional work.
- all work must be for sale - framed to a professional standard
- NOT more than 3 years old
- NOT previously exhibited at the Mall Galleries
- Pricing:
- Work selected for exhibition MUST be for sale.
- Minimum prices: Drawings and Paintings £300; Original edition prints (ie. no digital duplicates) £180
- Sale price must include cost of frame; the SGFA's 40% commission and VAT if applicable
- Entry Fee:
- Pictures up to 65 cm x 65 cm count as 1 work = £20.
- Pictures between 65 cm x 1.30 m count as 2 works = £40 (largest dimension)
- Pictures over this size count as 3 works = £60 and are at the Council's discretion.
- A good society to exhibit with if your focus and interest is all about drawing
- The standard of artwork exhibited has improved over the years
- you can see the artwork exhibited in 2024 online
- This is my Review of the Society of Graphic Fine Art Annual Exhibition 2024
Society of Women Artists | 164th Annual Open Exhibition 2025
The SWA continues to promote female artists and prides itself on the very diverse nature of the work shown during our Annual Open Exhibition from both our non-members and our members.
- Website: https://www.society-women-artists.org.uk/
- Call for Entries: https://societyofwomenartists.oess1.uk/
- Deadline for Entries: 12pm on 8th March 2025
- Exhibition: 24th - 28th June 2025
- Venue: Mall Galleries
- Who can enter: ?? (presumably only women!)
- What can you enter:
- Categories of work which are acceptable: painting, pastels, drawing, mixed media, sculpture (in all media) ceramics, glass and metal not of a utilitarian nature, fine art printing methods accepted (not giclee or large volume print methods).
- Photography not accepted.
- maximum submission size for paintings and sculpture this year of approx 200cm.
- all work must be for sale. Frames and mounts must be of good quality and complement the work.
- NOT more than 3 years old
- NOT previously exhibited at the Mall Galleries
The quality of the images uploaded are integral to work being selected because these are the images that will be used in the online Exhibition.
- Pricing:
- Commission of 45% for non-members (i.e. open entry artists)
- Commission of 40% for members
- If the work is sold through another platform or by the artists during the exhibition the SWA's commission will still be payable.
- VAT is payable by artists registered for VAT
- Mall Galleries Terms and Conditions apply to all sales
- Entry Fee:
- Standard: £20 per artwork
- Young Person under 36 years old: £10 per artwork
- Minimum Sale prices for works: £350
- Minimum Sale Price for etchings or lithography or drawings £150,
- Minimum Sale Price for 3D works: £200
- an annual exhibition which has improved enormously in recent years
- attracts over 3,000 entries via the open entry - and last year they selected 239 artworks from non-members - which is way more than other societies do
- selects a large number of works for hanging or display in the exhibition - across all three galleries of the Mall Galleries
- aims to achieve a 50:50 ratio in relation to
- artwork exhibited by members
- artwork selected from the open entry
- AND in the way the artwork is exhibited
- artwork selected for the exhibit encourages a diversity in style and approach sometimes not seen in other exhibitions
Society of Botanical Artists | Plantae 2025
- Website: https://www.soc-botanical-artists.org/
- Call for Entries: https://www.soc-botanical-artists.org/home-page/plantae-2025/
- Relevant Exhibition Information: https://www.soc-botanical-artists.org/exhibitions/information/
- Deadline for Entries: Midnight 14th February 2025
- Exhibition: 29th May to 7th June 2025
- Venue: Mall Galleries
- Who can enter: Any artist aged 18 or over may enter, from anywhere in the world.
Our only criteria are that all work must:
- be predominantly of botanical content
- be botanically accurate
- be visually pleasing
- have strong wall appeal
- be work you are proud of
- be original (all prints must be hand pulled and NOT giclee)
- What can you enter:
- any two or three-dimensional artwork BUT NOT photography or giclee printing
- by botanical artists and illustrators working n watercolour, oils, gouache, graphite, colour pencil or pen and ink or by printmakers, ceramic artists, sculptors, jewellers or glass artists
- maximum dimension of 120cm on the longest side.
- all work must be for sale
- All work must be original and not copied.
- NOT previously exhibited at the Mall Galleries
- presentation in simple plain mounts and wooden frames (which can accommodate mirror plate fixings) that will not detract from the work or interfere with adjacent works in the exhibition
- Pricing:
- minimum price of £300
- Prints only – framed £180, unframed £120
- commission on sales varies with size of artwork plus VAT
- Entry Fee:
- non-refundable submission fee of £25 per work
- Reasons to enter:
- This is the largest exhibition of botanical art at one venue in the world
- It attracts work of a high standard
- It also attracts botanical art collectors and sales are respectable
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