MAKING A MARK Major Open Art Society Exhibitions in the UK

Month	Art competition	Deadline dates 2011	Collection of Unaccepted Work	Method of entry / Delivery to….	2011 Exhibition dates
January	RWS Open Competition	Entry form/payment: 12^th January			Bankside Gallery – see below
	Royal Society of British Artists	14-15 January	22 or 26 January	Artwork / FBA at CHT	Mall Galleries: 2-12 March (PV 1 March)
	Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour	17 January			The Royal Scottish Academy Building (Lower Galleries), Edinburgh 5 February - 3 March 2011
	Society of Scottish Artists	(digital submission November 2010) 17-18 January 2011	29 January		The Royal Scottish Academy Building, Edinburgh 5 February - 3 March
	Visual Arts Scotland	17-18 January 2011	29 January		The Royal Scottish Academy Building (Upper Galleries), Edinburgh 5 February - 3 March
	Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour	28-29 January	12 or 16 January	Artwork / FBA at CHT; no prior shows in London	Mall Galleries: 30 March – 10 April (PV 29 March)
February	RWS Open Competition	12 February (London) + regional (earlier)	15 February 11am-7pm	Artwork / Bankside + regional	Bankside Gallery: 18 February – 10 March
	Society of Botanical Artists	14 February 2011	On closure of exhibition	Artwork / Westminster Central Hall	Westminster Central Hall 8 April - 17 April
	Pastel Society	18 – 19 February	5 or 9 March	Artwork / FBA at CHT Pre-submission for works 6400+ cm²	Mall Galleries: 20 April – 1 May (PV 19 April)
March	Royal Society of Portrait Painters	18 – 19 March	2 or 6 April	Artwork / FBA at CHT	Mall Galleries: 5 – 20 May (PV 4 May)
	RSPP International Submissions	9 February re digital image 18 March for artwork		Pre-selection available
	Royal Academy of Art: Summer Exhibition	Sculpture Photo deadline: 15 March Sculpture (invited: 27 April Transport agent deliveries: 28 March Glazed works (watercolours, prints, drawings, etc): 28 and 29 March Unglazed works (oils, acrylics, etc): 30 and 31 March Architecture: 28 April		Pre-submission of form to enable submission of work in person	Royal Academy of Arts 7 June – 15 August
April	Society of Women Artists	15 – 16 April	6 – 7 May	Artwork / Mall Galleries (CHT)	Mall Galleries: 30 June – 9 July
May	Bulldog Portrait Bursary	9 May
June	Society of Equestrian Artists	4 June			Mall Galleries: 2 – 7 August
	UK Coloured Pencil Society	11 June	None	Print/Digital submission	Westminster Central Hall 19 September – 1 October
	Guild of Aviation Artists	To be announced	To be announced	To be announced	Mall Galleries July 2011?
July	BITE Artists Making Prints	15 – 16 July	22 – 23 July		Mall Galleries: 24 August – 3 September
August	SWA Bursaries	1 August
	Royal Society of Marine Artists	12 – 13 August	27 or 31 August	Artwork / FBA at CHT	Mall Galleries: 12-23 October (PV 11 October)
	Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Engravers	20th August	26 - 27 October	Artwork / Mall Galleries (CHT)	Mall Galleries: 11 - 23 October
	Society of Feline Artists	Submission date to be announced	Same day	Open to Associates / Full Members. Entries hung at duiscretion of gallery	Llewellyn Alexander Gallery: 26 August - 16 September
	Society of Graphic Fine Art	Deadline to be announced	None	Prints by post	Menier Gallery: 3 – 15 October
September	Society of Wildlife Artists	11 – 12 September	24 or 28 September	Artwork / FBA at CHT	Mall Galleries: 27 October – 5 November
	New English Art Club	30 September – 1 October	15 or 19 October	Artwork / FBA at CHT Limits on size/price	Mall Galleries: 25 November – 4 December (PV 24 November)
October	Royal Institute of Oil Painters	28-29 October	12 or 16 November	Artwork / FBA at CHT Limits on size/price	Mall Galleries: 7-18 December (PV 6 December)

Notes:

1. FBA at CHT: Mall Galleries / Federation of British Artists – work to be submitted to basement at FBA HQ in Carlton House Terrace. £12 fee per work submitted / no hanging fee Link to registration and regional hand-in submission info

2. LA Gallery: Llewellyn Alexander Gallery 124 -126 The Cut, Waterloo, London SE1 8LN UK (opposite the Old Vic Theatre)

3. Bankside: Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London, SE1 9JH

4. SOFA has no entry fees and the cost of an Associate membership is equivalent to the cost of entry elsewhere so this one counts "as if" it were an open

5. For future RSA Open Exhibitions, regulations, entry forms and labels will be available approximately 1 month prior to hand-in from locations throughout Scotland, which will be listed on the website. They no longer plan to send out information to individual contacts, but regulations and entry forms will be downloadable, while labels will be available in the gallery and during hand-in.

Live html links to the Art Society URLs can also be found in http://www.makingamark.co.uk/art-competitions-exhibitions.html

For all FBA member shows administered by the FBA:

the call for entries, eligibility criteria for all submissions and details - for each Society - of how to submit for the the FBA shows plus certain others administered by the FBA are all available right now in the Mall Galleries Call for Entries 2011 Leaflet. (pdf file).
The General Guidance for all Mall Galleries exhibitions is available on the websit. There are links to the websites of all other art societies which vary as to how much information they provide at this point in the year.
You can Download the Registration Pack (Pdf file) - which provides the registration form (submitted with all framed works), labels and general guidance for all exhibitions Alternatively you can also obtain these documents by writing to the FBA.

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