Monday, March 23, 2009

myartspace London Calling early registration ends March 31st

www.myartspace.com/londoncalling

Early registration for the London Calling competition ends on March 31st. There are only a few days left to take advantage of the reduced entry fee. Currently the registration fee is $25. After March 31st it will be raised to $50. After registering, myartspace.com members (the site is free to join) can submit a www.myartspace.com gallery of up to 20 images for the jurors to view. In other words, if you register before March 31st it is $25 for a 20 image myartspace gallery that the jurors will view. A great value if you consider the caliber of the jurors.


www.screamlondon.co.uk

Scream London is run by Tyrone Wood. Tyrone, son of Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones, is quickly becoming one of the most influential gallerists in London. Notable guests and patrons of Scream London have included Tracey Emin, Claire Danes, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Beverly Knight, Meg Mathews, Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones and other celebrities, groundbreaking visual artists, and notable musicians.

The Jurors for London Calling are: Vanessa DesClaux Assistant Curator of Performance, The Tate Modern, London, Tom Morton Curator at the Hayward Gallery, London and contributing editor at Frieze, and Rancesco Manacorda Curator, the Barbican Art Gallery, London. The jurors will select 50 finalists. Artwork by 3 top finalists will be physically exhibited at Scream London for London Calling. Also, 17 artists will be represented digitally at Scream London for London Calling.

The jurors for myartspace.com London Calling:

* Vanessa DesClaux Assistant Curator of Performance, The Tate Modern, London.

* Tom Morton Curator at the Hayward Gallery, London and contributing editor at Frieze.

* Francesco Manacorda Curator, the Barbican Art Gallery, London.

If you are new to www.myartspace.com take advantage of our video tutorials in order to learn more about the site and gallery creation. www.myartspace.com/tutorials. You can also contact us at info AT catmacart.com if you have further questions about London Calling or myartspace.com. Feel free to repost this blog entry if you feel that your readership may enjoy this competition.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Myartspace.com London Calling update: Early registration deadline is March 31st

www.myartspace.com London Calling update: Early registration deadline is March 31st

Myartspace.com is sponsoring a competition juried by a world class panel from The Tate Modern, The Hayward Gallery, and the Barbican Gallery all in London. Fifty finalists will be selected and three winners will have their work represented at the Scream London in June 2009. Seventeen artists will be represented digitally at the exhibit as well.

The early registration fee for London Calling is $25. After March 31st the registration fee will be raised to $50. Once registered for the competition the artist will need to submit a myartspace.com gallery containing up to 20 images for jury consideration. In other words, for $25 the jury will view up to 20 images. The final deadline to register for the competition is May 15th. May 15th is also the final day for those registered to submit a gallery for jury consideration.
Located in the heart of the West London art district, Scream London is just a moment away from Sotheby's, Cork St and the Royal Academy, and rubs shoulders with some of London's most established art galleries in the traditional hub of the capital's art market. Scream is run by Tyrone Wood as curator. Scream is focused on contemporary art and has quickly developed a reputation as being an innovative gallery.

Scream London has exhibited works by Robert Indiana, Matty Small, Ingrid Baars, Rene Ricard, David Montgomery, among other artists. Notable guests and patrons have included Tracey Emin, Claire Danes, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Beverly Knight, Meg Mathews, and Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones.

The jurors for myartspace.com London Calling:

Vanessa DesClaux Assistant Curator of Performance, The Tate Modern, London. Vanessa DesClaux is currently assistant curator of performance at Tate Modern, recent projects include Actions and Interruptions and USB Openings: Saturday Live. Vanessa has recently collaborated with artist Benoit Maire, to produce an artist book which will be published by Revolver Books this summer. Vanessa contributes to a variety of magazines and art publications, including Untitled, Art-News, Contemporary and Art_Press. The Tate Modern in London is Britain's national museum of international modern art and is, with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, and Tate Online[2], part of the group now known simply as Tate.

Tom Morton Curator at the Hayward Gallery, London and contributing editor at Frieze. Tom Morton is a curator at the Hayward Gallery and contributing editor at Frieze. The Hayward is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre, part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room) and also the Royal National Theatre and British Film Institute. Prior to a rebranding of the South Bank Centre to Southbank Centre in early 2007, the Hayward was known as the Hayward Gallery.

Francesco Manacorda Curator, the Barbican Art Gallery, London. Rancesco Manacorda is Curator at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Born in 1974 in Turin, Italy, Manacorda undertook a Degree in Humanities at the University of Torino and completed a MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London in 2003. He is an experienced art writer, publishing extensive articles and reviews in publications such as Domus, Flash Art Italia and Flash Art International, Frieze, Metropolis M and Art Review.

Info about myartspace.com:

myartspace.com is a social art site for the art world. With over 50,000 members, and more than two years of history, myartspace has been a key force in the art industry at availing opportunity for its rapidly growing community. Membership to www.myartspace.com is free, and members can upload an unlimited amount of artwork, music, video and audio narration.

Myartspace galleries can be embedded on other websites-- one goal of the site is to provide tools that artists can utilize in order to promote themselves online. Members can also utilize the New York Art Exchange (NYAXE) -- www.nyaxe.com, an eCommerce platform for buying and selling art online. New features are regularly implemented as the community continues to grow at an alarming rate.

Again, the early registration deadline for London Calling Competition is March 31. If you are a myartspace.com member and desire to enter the competition please visit, www.myartspace.com/londoncalling/register

For more information about Scream London visit, www.screamlondon.co.uk

For more information about the myartspace.com London Calling competition visit, www.myartspace.com/londoncalling

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Monday, January 12, 2009

Myartspace Announces London Calling Competition

Myartspace Announces London Calling Competition

myartspace is sponsoring a competition juried by a world class panel from The Tate Modern, The Hayward Gallery, and the Barbican Gallery all in London. Fifty finalists will be selected and three winners will have their work represented at the Scream London Gallery in June 2009.
Inspired by Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood’s own career as an internationally recognized artist, the Scream London Gallery touches shoulders with some of London’s most established art galleries in the traditional hub of the capital’s art market. Scream London is run by Tyrone Wood as curator. Notable guests and patrons have included Tracey Emin, Claire Danes, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Beverly Knight, Meg Mathews, and many others.

Competition Snapshot:

-Deadline for registration and submission is May 15, 2009.
-Competition is open to myartspace members. Membership is free.
-Registration fee is $50, but for early registration by March 31, 2009 the fee is $25.-Jury panel includes Vanessa DesClaux from the Tate Modern, Tom Morton from the Hayward Gallery and Francesco Manacorda from the Barbican Gallery
-Fifty finalists will be selected and announced by the jury panel.
-Three winners will have their art represented at Scream Gallery London, in June 2009. Winners to be announced on May 31, 2009.

Summary:

myartspace, the premier online venue for the contemporary art world, is sponsoring a Juried competition. We want to represent three contemporary artists at a venue in London, England during June 2009. The competition, like others from myartspace, will have world-class jurors reviewing the work of the submissions. Fifty finalists will be selected and three winners will have their work represented at the show.

With over 50,000 members, and more than two years of history, myartspace has been a key force in the art industry at availing opportunity for its rapidly growing community. The myartspace community consists of artists, collectors, gallerists, art appreciators, educators, curators, art critics and many others. Membership to myartspace is free, and members can upload an unlimited amount of art work, music, video and audio narration.

For more information about London Calling visit, www.myartspace.com/londoncalling

For more information about Scream London visit, www.screamlondon.co.uk

Take care, Stay true,

Brian Sherwin
Senior Editor

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