OPEN 2025 - Call for Entries
The Old Lock Up Gallery is excited to announce it’s ‘call for entries’ to our annual OPEN - installed within the gallery - Salon style. Please join us and submit your work to our annual Open call out - by stepping forward and submitting your work you are letting us know that you’d love to work with us in 2025/2026. Plus you’re also supporting our rather unique and fabulous independent art gallery here in the Derbyshire Peak District!
The exhibition is open to all artists, from all disciplines, aged 18 and over resident within the UK only.
Criteria for Submission:
Aged 18 or over
UK resident
Applications are accepted from artists working in any medium, however work submitted must have been created during or after the year 2023.
We are accepting postal deliveries from selected artists this year.
If notified of selection - Artists must be able to deliver/post/collect their work on the allotted dates before and after the exhibition: see timeline below. Please do contact the gallery if this is difficult - we will be as flexible as possible. See note at foot of this web page re; postal deliveries.
Artists can submit work in any medium including, for example, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, textiles, multi media, drawing.
Completed submission form: in following format only: word, JPEG (print: handwrite/complete and take photo) or PDF
Submission fee paid - if possible include a screen shot of website transaction - to be emailed along with submission form.
Good quality photographs/Jpegs of submissions- emailed with completed submission form (please DO NOT send separately) - approx 150 - 300 dpi - cropped to size/no blurring/background or frames included in the photograph etc.
Submission Dates:
Online via email 2024: 8am 17th November - 11pm January 14th - please download a submission form below.
Submission Fee:
The submission fee is £20 for up to 3 pieces of work (maximum pieces of work 3 per artist), It is not possible to apply without paying this fee, which is non-refundable. Fee is payable via our ‘Whats On’ page - the link is at the bottom of this page.
40% commission charged on any sales if selected for the Open 2024.
Maximum number of pieces of work 3 per artist - no larger than 85cm - length/width.
Checklist:
Open for submissions: November 17th 2024 until 11pm on 14th January 2025 - via email – theoldlockupgallery@gmail.com
Completed submission form
Maximum pieces of work – 3 per artist
Entry fee: £20 paid online via our websites ‘What’s On’ page: Link/button is below.
Calculated price of work including 40% gallery commission
Email: completed submission form, good quality jpegs, a screenshot of online payment (if possible we do receive an email notification of all payments) by 14th January.
Ensure that you can commit to the delivery/postal dates
You can scan or photograph your completed submission form if needed
Prizes:
Winner - cash prize of at least £250 & invited to exhibit in a maximum of 2 shows in 2025 or 2026
Selected Artist - invited to exhibit work in a maximum of 2 shows in 2025 or 2026
Timeline:
Please ensure that you are able to commit to the following dates in bold:
Open for submissions online/email: 2024 November 17th - 14th January 11pm 2025
Notified of selection for OPEN 2024 - by 18th January 2025 - via email
Delivery of work to the gallery if selected: 31st Jan 5.30-7pm or 1st Feb 10-12
Postal deliveries: on 31st January - if selected you will be given further details.
Exhibition Opens: 9th February 2-5pm
Exhibition Closes: 22nd March
Collection of unsold work: March 22nd 5.30pm - 6.30pm or March 23rd 3-5pm - from the gallery.
If sent via post unsold work will be returned to you via Special Delivery or Parcel Force 24/48 hrs - you will need to cover this cost.