74th Annual Summer Exhibition of the Chelsea Arts Society: FINAL call for entries

It's worth noting that the 74th Annual Summer Exhibition of the Chelsea Art Society, in June at Chelsea Old Town Hall, has £12,000 in prizes. That's broadly equivalent to some national art societies!

• The aim of the exhibition is to show recent work by Painters, Draughtsmen, Printmakers and Sculptors - and for open entrants to exhibit alongside members of this popular Art Society.
• However, the deadline for entries is midnight on Sunday 23rd April 2023 - which means you have ONLY five days left to organise an online entry.

The centre of our ethos is to enable artists to exhibit and sell their work in the heart of Chelsea. If we are successful in doing this, it allows artists to continue creating and being seen.

Prizes

Why not take a look at the prizes and see if any of these appeal to you?

Young Artists:

• Wedlake Bell for a Young Artist 35yrs and Under, painting or sculpture - £1500

Older Artists:

• Lady Hamlyn prize for an artist over 65yrs, painting or sculpture - £250

Exhibition Opportunity:

• Green and Stone Award to host a two week Solo Show in their Chelsea Gallery or a gift voucher worth £1000 (to be redeemed against anything in store except art work.)

Media Publicity

• Artist and Illustrators - feature article in the magazine 

Sculpture

• Sculpture for an Interior Space, Savills - £1000
• Heatherleys Award for a sculpture - £500
• Slaski Sculpture Award - £500 
• West Dean College Award, for Sculptural Integrity - £200 voucher to use at the College
• West Dean College 'Visitors Choice' Sculpture Award - £100 voucher to use at the college

Watercolour

• Simon Macnab Award for a watercolour - £500
• St Cuthberts Mill, for a work on paper - 20 sheets of watercolour paper worth £120

Painting or sculpture

• Handelsbanken for Artistic Innovation, painting or sculpture - £1000

Painting or print

• Julian Barrow prize for a Spirit of Adventure, painting or print - £500

Printmaking

• Boden Award for a print - £500

Drawing

• Heatherleys Award for a drawing, a course worth - £340 

Chelsea oriented

• Cadogan Award for Culture in the Chelsea Community - £1000

London oriented

• Agnes Reeve Memorial Award for a painting of London, for a CAS member £100

View of a previous exhibition in the Main Hall of Chelsea Old Town Hall

Call for Entries

Full details can be found on the OESS website

Exhibition Details

• Venue: Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, London SW3 5EE
• Dates: 14th-19th June 2023
• Hours: 10am - 6pm (except the last day when it closes at 2pm)

Who can enter?

• Anybody - living anywhere in the world.

What can you enter?

• ELIGIBLE artwork includes paintings, drawings, original prints, sculpture 
• INELIGIBLE artwork includes Digital, Video, Sound, Photography, Needlework, Beadwork, Pressed Flowers, Mosaic or Stained Glass, Giclee prints
• Artwork for sale ONLY. Pricing should include 
• VAT if applicable (this is the artist's responsibility)
• Commission rates charged by the Society are: 35%  for Non Members and Friends of CAS; 30% for Artist Members of Chelsea Art Society
• All entries must be less than 120cm in any one direction including frame AND only one large artwork per entrant.
• You can enter up to three artworks - costing:
• £12 per artwork for young people under 25
• £15 per artwork for everybody else

How to enter

There is a two phase selection process

• Phase 1. Preselection announced on OESS on 28th April, 2023
• Phase 2. Successful entries go through physical judging - in front of a 7 person panel of members - at The Chelsea Town Hall on 11th June, 2023

To enter you need to:

• Complete the online application form
• upload images - Image files should be JPG or PNG and no more than 5MB large.
• pay the fees per artwork

If you artwork gets through the first round of selection then you need to:

• attach OESS labels to the back of the artwork
• deliver your artwork to Chelsea Old Town Hall on Sunday 11th June between 10am and 3.30pm - for the second round of selection

There are no refunds of entry fees. It's your responsibility to make sure your artwork is compliant with the detailed requirements and that you can comply with all the dates re delivery and collection.

Selection

• only correctly completed entries will be considered
• only properly framed artwork will be hung. Poorly framed or presented artwork will be rejected irrespective of the quality of the artwork.

Young Artists Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Arts

Did you know that the Royal Academy of Arts has a Summer Show for young people?

No? Neither did I! 

Find out more about the show below and on the RA website https://youngartists.royalacademy.org.uk/

What's the purpose of the Young Artists' Summer Show?

Taking inspiration from the annual Summer Exhibition, the Young Artists’ Summer Show is an opportunity for young artists aged 5 - 19 years to exhibit their work online and on-site at the Royal Academy.

The project is generously supported by Robin Hambro, a passionate advocate for the importance of access to art, and the benefits of encouraging the arts, for children and young people.

Are there any prizes?

There are prizes each year (Take a look at the 2020 prize winning artworks)

• for two inspiring artworks 
• from each key stage

Award winners are chosen by the President of the Royal Academy.

The public can also vote for their favourite artwork in our annual People’s Choice Award. 

some of the artwork in the RA Young Artists Summer Show 2020

How to enter

Who can enter?

• children and young people aged 5 - 19 studying in the UK and British schools overseas.
• collaborative artwork entries are welcome - and and there is no limit to the number of students involved.

What can I enter?

• Each student can submit up to three artworks of any type e.g. a painting, sculpture, photograph, installation or video piece. 
• Your artwork can be made of any materials. 
• There is no theme so artworks can be of any subject.

What does it cost to enter?

• The competition is completely free.

How do I enter?

The entry process works as follows:

• entry is online - you cannot submit artwork by post.
• a teacher first needs to register your school
• once that is done, artwork can be submitted 
• by a teacher or parent/guardian if you are under 12
• by the student if you are aged 13 or over

What do I need to submit?

You need to upload images of your artwork - with some text.

Images need to be 

• files are 5MB or less
• one of the following formats: JPG, PNG, GIF.
• If you want to submit a file that is not a JPG, PNG or GIF, you can use a file converter website to change your file so it will upload.

You need to describe your artwork as follows:

• title of the artwork
• a description of what the work is about and why you made it

How selection works

Each artwork will be seen by a panel of judges - made up of panel of artists and art professionals. 

Everyone who submits artworks will hear from the RA by the end of May.

There are two sets of judges

• one for artworks made by primary students and 
• one for artworks made by secondary school students. 

When the judges make their selections, they choose where the artwork will be seen i.e.

• which artworks will be shown online and 
• which will be shown at the Royal Academy.