Click here to go to the Halesworth Gallery homepage

Opening Hours Weekdays and Saturday 11am-5pm Sundays 2-5pm Admission Free 01986 873 064
Private Views for Friends of the Gallery from 6.30-8.30pm on the Friday before each show
THE GALLERY IS CLOSED FOR HANGING ON THE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY BEFORE EACH EXHIBITION OPENS

Notes for Artists

Notes for artists who wish to submit work for consideration

When & Where?
The selection committee sits at the beginning of each year in early January to select artists from the submissions we receive for the coming year. If you would like to be considered then your submission needs to be with our Exhibitions Secretary, Jan Martin, at 31, Chediston Street, Halesworth, Suffolk by December 31st.

How?
These notes are the opinions of one of our selection committee based on six years of selecting work. Last year we received almost one hundred submissions from artists. Unfortunately many artists made it very difficult for us to assess their work and these notes are designed to help artists make their submissions as good as possible.

Photography of work
About a dozen good quality colour prints or slides work best for us. Good, clear in-focus images showing your work at its best and giving us a good idea about the colours and textures of the work. Some indication of the scale of work is also important either on the slide or back of the print or on an acompanying list of works. Indications of materials and technique are also helpful.

We have found digital print-outs to be much more problematic. Print-outs onto normal typing paper are often of such poor quality that it is very difficult to discern the original colours and textures of the art works. Digital images need to be of a high resolution initially and then printed out on photo paper to give a good clear image. You can take digital images on a disc to a photographic processors such as Anglia Photographic in Halesworth or Wells in Southwold or branches of Boots or Jessops and they can print out your images on photographic paper which looks good and costs no more than normal photographic printing or printing them yourself on an inkjet printer.

We are happy to view digital images of work submitted on CD. Again the images need to be of a good quality and some indication of the size of the works is very helpful. Powerpoint and other sorts of slide show are always nice too.

Statements
A short statement about your work with a brief CV is also helpful. Some indication of any art education and any previous exhibitions can be helpful though not a neccessity by any means!

Websites
We have not really found it practical to accept websites as submissions from artists. If you have a website then please let us know as part of your submission but we cannot really view a website as the whole of a submission. Printing out large numbers of images is not really feasible and we have found it difficult to view websites as a group. Currently we would prefer submissions delivered in a form that is more easily viewable by a group meeting together. Why not make up a CD of images instead? Or copy all of your website onto a disc. We have found this practicable as it does not involve following links over a dial-up connection. If successful in getting a show we will be happy to add a link to your website from this one of course.

Good luck and we look forward to hearing from you.

Paul Cope
HG Selection Committee member and webmaker
31st May 2006

 
Updated on Monday, April 10, 2006
© Web design & photography Paul Cope. All works remain the © of the artists.
Please do not reproduce without permission.