eligibility
New Contemporaries is open to all final year undergraduates and current postgraduates of Fine Art at UK colleges and those artists who graduated in the year 2008.
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deadline & application
The deadline for newcontemporaries 2009 is MONDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2009.
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selection
The 2009 exhibition will be selected by a specially-invited panel of artists.
The selection process is organised in two stages:
The team of selectors judges all the applications.
After this stage, New Contemporaries will contact all the unsuccessful
applications by the end of March.
The team of selectors judges actual work from a shortlist of artists. New
Contemporaries will contact all the shortlisted artists and make arrangements
for the collection of their work. New Contemporaries will store all the work
selected for the exhibition until the first venue on the tour. All the works not
selected for the exhibition will be returned to the artist after completion of the
second stage of selection, by the end of May.
We are not able to acknowledge the receipt of applications and no
correspondence will be entered into with individuals.
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submission
New Contemporaries will consider work in any fine art medium, including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, print-making, multi-media, performance and live work, video and moving image, computer-based and websites. Selection is based on existing work only.
Proposals for new work will only be considered alongside existing work and
all details for proposed works will need to be fully developed. The artist will
need to be able to fund and resource the development of any new work themselves.
The initial stage of selection is from the submitted material, so the quality of the documentation of work is very important. Please decide on the best format of documentation for your work.
All work has to be able to tour.
your Application must include the following items
- Documentation of your work, CD-R or DVD
- Completed submission form
- £20 submission fee.
Cheques or postal orders need to be made payable to
New Contemporaries (1988) Ltd
Please do not send cash.
Please make sure that all cheques are signed and correctly dated.
The application will not be viewed unless payment is received and cheques
are made out correctly.
Please send your completed application to
New Contemporaries 2009, PO Box 52157, London, E2 7XX
(Please note Special or Recorded Delivery cannot be used for a PO
Box address).
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fee
The submission fee is £20 (per form)
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your application
Completing Your Application
The Application form requests a List of Works giving the title, medium, size
and date of each work.
Please ensure that the list on the application form is in the same numerical
order as the list of works on the CD-R or DVDs.
Digital images
Applicants working in 2D and 3D media should send a maximum of 10 digital
images.
All the digital images must be J-Peg format only. Other formats will not be
accepted (no PowerPoint, Photoshop, Tiffs).
All J-Pegs should be in RGB mode. It is essential that the J-Pegs be
formatted so that they can be viewed on a Mac.
Clearly label both the CD-R and its case with your name.
The images will be projected for the selection. It is recommended that no
image should exceed 1024 pixels wide, landscape format or 768 pixels high,
for portrait formats. Useful Tip: Please check that you have burned the images successfully
onto the CD-R before sending it in, preferably by checking the disc and its
files on a Mac computer.
Video
Applicants working in time-based media should provide a video DVD only.
We are unable to view videos in other formats (no VHS tapes or QuickTime
or AVI files etc on CD-R).
You may submit a maximum of 3 works.
If any work is longer than 5 minutes, you should send a short extract of that
work for viewing by the selectors.
Please specify how you intend to present the work for exhibition: single
monitor, video projection, installation formats.
Clearly label both the CD-R and its case, with your name. Useful Tip: Do not send video documentation of work in other media such as painting or sculpture. Do not send stills from a video as well as the video itself.
Audio
Please supply sound works in mp3 or AIF/WAV format on CD-R only.
Submit short extracts where applicable.
Proposals
Please supply as hardcopy on one A4 sheet.
Websites, online projects
We may not be able to access online works for viewing by the selectors.
Please supply either a copy on CD-R, or supply appropriate documentation.
Please note that New Contemporaries (1988) Ltd cannot be held responsible for lost
or damaged applications. Please make sure that all documentation is clearly labelled
and securely packaged. It is not possible to return any of the submitted material.
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* Equal Opportunity Monitoring Form
New Contemporaries is striving towards an Equal Opportunities Policy and Action Plan. The process will enable New Contemporaries to discuss and formally articulate its commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity through all aspects of its work.
As part of this process, we would greatly appreciate your help and ask you to fill in the Equal Opportunity Monitoring Form and enclose it with your application.
This is entirely voluntary and any information supplied will remain anonymous. Responses will not be used for any other purpose than helping us in the articulation of our Policy and Plan. The information will not be used in conjunction with your Application Form.
Download the equal opportunity monitoring form here
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