The Newfoundland Emigrant Trail - Call For Entry

If you are interested in taking part please email for more information and call for entry form.

Call for Entry
Five Island Art Gallery
7 Cove Road

Tors Cove

Southern Shore, NL, CANADA

709.334.3645

www.fiveislandartgallery.com

September 18 – October 21, 2011

Being in Newfoundland is a strange and almost surreal  experience, making you feel simultaneously at home abroad. You are in another country with its own complex history, and on another continent a vast ocean away from Ireland, but you keep encountering and recognizing intimate echoes of home. (Michael Coady, Carrick-on-Suir)

To celebrate the tradition and history of the visual arts, to honour the people and the place of our common ancestry, and to build on our Irish-Newfoundland and Labrador connections project of 2010, the Five Island Art Gallery invites submissions for a juried exhibition of art works inspired by the story of emigration from the South East Coast of Ireland to Newfoundland during the 18^th and 19^th centuries.

Works submitted can include paintings, sketches, textile art and sculptures. We welcome two- and three-dimensional contemporary works that capture a piece of the story of the Newfoundland Emigrant Trail.

Jurying will take place by digital images, with selection based on interpretation, originality and technique.

The Opening Reception is scheduled for 2:00 – 5:00 pm September 18, 2011 at the Five Island Art Gallery in Tors Cove, NL and will run until October 21, 2011. Some of the artists, along with special guests from an Irish delegation visiting Newfoundland with the Festival of the Sea, will be in attendance.

the Newfoundland Emigrant Trail –

Intent to Enter and Conditions of Entry

Deadlines:

Intent to enter - April 15, 2011

Receipt of artwork – August 26, 2011.

1. To enter you must be a current or former resident of Newfoundland or Ireland.

2. All entries must be of original design and be an interpretation rather than a copy of an inspirational piece.

3. Entries must follow the theme of the exhibition and be a painting (oil, acrylic, watercolour, monotype, sketch, sculpture (clay or other), or textile art medium.

4. Entries must be made exclusively by the artist and not from kits or during a workshop. Collaboration is acceptable, but all contributors must be acknowledged.

5. Please provide a brief 100 words or less explanation of your piece and indicate any specific artifact, image, text or other… that inspired the entry.

6. The maximum size for any entry is 40 X 40 inches.

7. Entries must be suitably finished and ready to hang or display and accompanied by all necessary hardware and instructions.

8. To enter complete the Intent to Enter and Image Description Form (attached) and send it with two low-resolution (each less than 1MB) images in JPEG format of your entry or proposed entry sketches/drawings (one of the entire piece and the other, a close-up illustrating some detail of the work) via email by April 15, 2011, to fiveislandgallery@nf.aibn.com with the words “the Newfoundland Emigrant Trail” in the subject line.

9. Label each image with: Your Initials, Image Title (brief), Year, 1a (for full image) and 1b (for detail) ie. fe_fox island_2010­_1b.

10. Images may be used for publicity and promotion of the Newfoundland Emigrant Trail exhibit.

11. Entries must be free of any text or images that are protected by copyright, unless you have the expressed written permission from the person or institution that holds the copyright and you provide the written permission with your submission. Commercial imagery is not recommended.

12. It is expected that all works will be for sale, however, some exceptions may apply. Please indicate if your work is not for sale and why. The Five Island Art Gallery will receive a 40% commission on all sales. The remaining 60% will be paid to the artist.

13. Deadline for art submissions is August 26, 2011. Entries must be received at the Five Island Art Gallery,

7 Cove Road

, Tors Cove no later than this date.

14. The Five Island Art Gallery is insured for public liability and all reasonable care will be taken with art works while at the Gallery.

15. Accepted entrants will be notified by email no later than May 15, 2011.

16. The acceptance of an entry grants permission to the Five Island Art Gallery to use an image of the accepted work for promotional purposes.

17. Accepted works must be available for the complete duration of the show.

18. By applying you agree to abide by the terms and conditions listed herein.