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How To Enter The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2011
Submissions for the 2011 RA Summer Exhibition has now closed. Watch for 2012 details on ArtLyst.
Held annually since the Royal Academy's foundation in 1768, the Summer Exhibition is a unique celebratory showcase for art of all styles and media, encompassing paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, architectural models, film, and artist's books. Historically, the exhibition has also provided an opportunity for Royal Academicians, many of whom are internationally renowned, to show their work.
RA 2011 Summer Show details here
Following long Academy tradition, the exhibition is curated by an annually rotating committee of Royal Academicians who are all practicing artists and architects. Any artist may enter work for selection - over 12,000 works are submitted for consideration every year and around 1200 are exhibited. The Academy works hard to encourage a diverse range of artists to enter and, as a result, well over 100 artists are included every year who have not previously exhibited in the Summer Exhibition. The show provides an unrivalled opportunity for exhibitors to sell their work and have it seen by the 200,000 visitors that the exhibition draws during its three-month run; all artists are strongly encouraged to enter work that is available for sale.
Over £65,000 will be given in prizes; awards include The Charles Wollaston Award for the most distinguished work (£25,000), The Jack Goldhill Award for a sculpture (£10,000), The Hugh Casson Drawing Prize (£3000), The British Institution Awards for students (4 prizes of £1000), The Rose Award for Photography (£1000), The Sunny Dupree Family Award for a Woman Artist (£3500) and the Bovis Lend Lease/Architects Journal Awards for Architecture (£15,000 in total). All exhibited works are eligible for the relevant prizes.
(7 June – 15 August)
An artist may enter a maximum of two works for the consideration of the judges, for a handling charge of £25.00 per work.
Entry Forms can be purchased online until early March 2011.
Click here to purchase your form
In order to avoid disappointment, it is recommended that artists buy their forms in good time.
For more information:
Download the 2011 Open Submission Leaflet (138 KB)
Download the 2011 Terms and Conditions (47 KB)
FAQ: Download the list of frequently asked questions (104 KB)
Delivery Days 2011
Deadline for photographs of sculpture: 15 March
Sculpture invited from photographs: 27 April
Deliveries by transport agents only : 28 March
Glazed works (watercolours, prints, drawings, etc): 28 and 29 March
Unglazed works (oils, acrylics, etc): 30 and 31 March
Architecture: 28 April
If you have an enquiry, please email summerexhibition@royalacademy.org.uk
Summer Exhibition Co-ordinator 2011
Christopher Le Brun
Selection and Hanging Committee
Nicholas Grimshaw (President), Tony Bevan, Olwyn Bowey, Maurice Cockrill, Michael Craig-Martin, Stephen Farthing, Piers Gough, Michael Sandle, Alan Stanton, John Wragg, Norman Foster, Chris Orr, Christopher Le Brun.
Theme
The Summer Exhibition Committee has decided that there will be no theme for 2011.
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