Call for Artists’ – The Other House Exhibition at the BMECP Centre

The Other House exhibition – 5th to 27th May 2018

Call for Applicants

SEAS invites artists working in drawing, painting, digital arts, printing, sculpture, photography and installation to submit work for the SEAS 3rd exhibition – The Other House. The group exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Black and Minority Ethnic Community Partnership (BMECP) Centre in Brighton and Counterpoints Arts, the national charity supporting work on migration, based in London. The Other House will run from 4th to 27th May, at BMECP.

The Other House theme is open to artists’ interpretation but the priority will be given to socially and politically engaged work which support SEAS principles of collaboration, engagement with communities, diversity, the notion of art as a practice of transgression or dissensus, radical hospitality and sustainability.

Please download here the application form: SEAS_the_other_house_form

Practical Notes

Each artist will have 2×1 meters of wall or floor. Films will be screened on rotation on 40’ TV screen. The exhibition will be accompanied by an opening event and an evening of artists’ talks. The exhibition will take place as part of Artists Open House from 1st May – 27th May 2018. Deadline for submitting the work is the 17thth of April, the work needs to arrive at the venue by the 25th April. The artists are responsible for taking down the work at the closing event on Sunday the 27th of May.

The submission process is free. Selected artists will be asked for a joining fee between £30 and £60 depending on the works’ locations. Please see details below. Artists who can invigilate at the venue for one day will be paid £50 for the day, please state in your application the possible dates you might be available (see below).

The Entry Process

Please complete the entry form and insert in it a 200 word artist statement, the works’ details that will be used for labelling and one A4 page C.V. Please save it all as ONE pdf document + the Equality and diversity monitoring form (optional) and send it to seasbrighton@gmail.com with the subject line “SEAS’s Other House Submission”.

Notification

The selection for SEAS’s The Other House exhibition will take place between April 17th and 20th and all selected applicants will be contacted by email on April 21st.

Venue

The exhibition will take place in the Black and Ethnic Minority Community Partnership (BMECP) Centre, 2 minutes from Brighton train station. The exhibition will be advertised in Brighton Artists Open House booklet and website, as well as on SEAS’s and Counterpoints Arts website and social media.

Eligibility

SEAS’s exhibition is open to UK and International artists and makers over the age of 18 working in any media. All submitted works need to be insured by the artists. Artists can choose to take an insurance by becoming a A-N member (see here: https://www.a-n.co.uk/register-artist) or, for example via Hencilla Insurance Company http://www.hencilla.co.uk/unions/a-n/artist/aip

Fee

The entry process is free but selected participants will be asked to pay joining fee of £30 (for basement space) or £60 (ground floor space) + 30% commission from the sale of their works. The payment will cover administration, PR, invigilation and installation of the works. The payment will be made by PAYPAL.

Award

A jury made by SEAS artist committee, Counterpoints Arts and the BMECP centre will award an artist’s residency in central Brighton covering an unsite bedroom and kitchen and a studio space for one week during 2018/2019.

Key Dates