Call for Submissions

[devi]

This is the mailshot I've been sending out to artists. It's only really relevant if you live in or near Oxford - soz. Well, we could possibly stretch a point if you can get artwork to me by the 27th of March or so and take it away again afterwards if no one's bought it :)

Things on the Wall*: The Oxfringe Art Show
29 March to 6 April 2008

Oxfringe is a new fringe festival running alongside the Oxford Literary Festival. It began last year with literary events, but this year we've grown and diversified into drama, comedy, music and art as well as literature. We're running a wide range of events throughout Oxford during the week of the Festival with an emphasis on local talent. More information can be found at www.oxfringe.com, or you can phone us on 0870 8033475.

We invite Oxfordshire-based artists to submit work to be hung in the first ever Oxfringe art exhibition. Please send an electronic image of the work to deirdre at oxfringe dot com with "Oxfringe Art Show" included in the subject line of the message. The Oxfringe committee will select artworks to be part of the exhibition. Due to limited space we can't guarantee that your work will be exhibited, but we will try to fit in as many submissions as possible - and we'll only be taking one work from each artist, but feel free to send us several to choose from.

Work will be hung in the Brian Duke Foyer of the Jacqueline Du Pre Music Building and in the Age Concern @183 Internet Bookshop on Cowley Road. (The Jacqueline Du Pre is open daily throughout the festival, the bookshop from Monday to Saturday.) If exhibition visitors wish to buy your art the staff at both locations are happy to handle the transactions. If your work is selected we will contact you with more details.

Maximum size of work is 1 metre squared (sorry, we can't accommodate 3D works this year, though we hope it'll be possible at next year's Fringe) - though smaller pieces have a somewhat better chance of being fit in.

If you know of other artists you think might be interested in submitting a piece, please do pass this on.

Please submit images of your work by Monday March 17th at the latest. Thanks!

* Title no. 81 from Stefan Brüggemann's Show Titles project.

Comments

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

If, theoretically speaking, I had written a short (half hour) play, and wanted to put it on for Oxfringe '09, who would I speak to?

[hatmandu.livejournal.com]

Hey, I like the daftness of the Show Titles project!

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Photographs: counting as art or not?

ooh, ahhh

[jinty]

if photos count then I should look thru some of mine

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I would be so tempted if I was nearer to Oxford!

[titaniccapybara.livejournal.com]

Would something that is very slightly 3D but mostly flat, whilst still being less than 1m squared, and that can happily hang on a wall, be allowed?

[concourse.livejournal.com]

I have just "added" you, almost certainly overdue. Hope this is ok!
Mark

poetry and pictures

[(Anonymous)]

I am already performing my poetry at Oxfringe. But I want people to se my art too. I am doing an installation on "Poetry and Pictures" on Thursday at The Abingdon Festival this week. But I would really like to connect my pictures with the poetry at the festival this year. I am also starting a big project with Age Concern on "poetry and pictures" on the Cowley Rd right now.Seems a good place to hang the work for me.

cheers

nick owen

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in submitting this one (http://wax-and-wane.org/trad/07drawingdownthemoon.html), which is small enough to be postable. I also don't mind coming to Oxford to collect it - especially if I can coincide it with seeing you. If that sounds okay let me know and I'll do the electronic application thing.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Can we send you stuff with the instruction to throw it away afterwards if no one wants it?