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*CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FROM RECENT VISUAL ARTS GRADUATES *
Following the success of New Art West Midlands annual exhibitions 2013-2017 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, in partnership with other galleries in the West Midlands region, is organising a series of high profile selected exhibitions of work by recent visual arts graduates from the five regionally-based university art schools and Hereford College of Arts. The aim of the exhibitions is to profile the best work with a Fine Art emphasis – in sculpture, painting, photography, mixed media, installation, digital media, video/film art, live art/performance - emerging from the university art schools in the West Midlands since 2015 and offer new visual arts graduates a high quality professional development opportunity.
ELIGIBILITY You are eligible to apply for this opportunity if you graduated or are graduating at BA, MA or PhD level from the following universities and art schools in the years 2015, 2016 or 2017.
— Birmingham City University — Coventry University — Hereford College of Arts— Staffordshire University — University of Wolverhampton — University of Worcester
Artwork can be in any media including live art/performance, but must have a Fine Art practice orientation. Disciplines focused on the areas of craft or design are not eligible. If you applied for New Art West Midlands 2016 or 2017 you can apply again for 2018, but if your work was included in the 2016 or 2017 exhibitions, you will not be selected for exhibition again.
THE EXHIBITION The multi-sited exhibition will be displayed at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, The Herbert Gallery and Museum, Coventry and other venues in the West Midlands from February to May 2018. Artists and/or artworks will be selected in July 2017 following the initial application process.
The SELECTORS of New Art West Midlands 2018Include: Sinead McCarthy, Curator, Liverpool BiennialIngrid Pollard, artist and photographer
HOW TO MAKE AN APPLICATIONPlease complete the following for your application in digital format:— Artist’s statement (500 words maximum).This statement should include information about yourartistic practice and describe the works you havesubmitted as part of your application. — A maximum of 5 images or digital files that best represents your practice as jpegs, weblinks to Vimeoor YouTube and/or equivalent media (maximum 5MBin total). If submitting video/film or filmed live/art performance please send weblinks, NOTscreenshots. Please remember to give your images legible file names and clear details of links if yourwork can be viewed online, including your detailsand the title of each work. If files are larger you can send links to your images for download via filesharing websites such as We Transfer.— The attached Application Form, completed with your contact details and outlining the title, media,date, format and dimensions of each of the artworks submitted as supporting visual material (includingany specific technical or display requirements of the work)
SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATIONBy emailing digital files and/or links to your uploaded content (maximum 5MB in total) to: [email protected]
DEADLINE The deadline for applications is 5pm, Friday 23 June 2017
We regret that Birmingham Museum and Art Galleryare unable to respond to unsuccessful applications individually.
Selection will take place in July 2017 and only successful applicants will be informed. If you havenot had a response by 28 July 2017, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
PLEASE NOTE that selected works and artists need to be available to deliver and install their work either at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, The Herbert Gallery and Museum, Coventry or other venues inthe West Midlands in late January/early February2018.
