We are excited to announce our next call for artists submissions for our penultimate show of 2024

‘Shuuki’ - Exhibition opens 6th Oct - 10th Nov

Our forthcoming exhibition falls at the start of Autumn - ‘Shuuki’ is a Japanese word that means ‘Autumn Air’ and it seems a good time to explore 2 themes that the Autumn months can symbolise: Letting go and abundance.

Autumn is often seen as a time for reflection and letting go: Autumn offers a parallel to the seasonal changes in our own lives. As many trees shed leaves and bark, nature reminds us to look at what we can each individually release and let go of: what no longer serves us.. Autumn is also a time brimming with natures beauty and abundance: a time for harvesting the fruits created during the long summer days and drinking in the abundance of beauty that this changing season creates.

We would love to receive an array of work which you as artists feel explores either letting go or abundance: pretty much anything that fits seamlessly with these themes: both literally and metaphorically.

To live in this world - Mary Oliver

you must be able

to do three things:

to love what is mortal; 

to hold it

against your own bones knowing

your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to

let it go,

to let it go

Abundance - Amy Schmidt - in memory of Mary Oliver

It’s impossible to be lonely

when you’re zesting an orange.

Scrape the soft rind once

and the whole room

fills with fruit.

Look around: you have

more than enough.

Always have.

You just didn’t notice

until now.

Submissions Criteria & Information:

  • Open to all artists resident within the UK.

  • Open to all disciplines including ceramics and sculpture.

  • Open to artists aged 18 and over.

  • All work must be available for sale

  • No reproductions/giclee prints accepted.

  • Maximum number of pieces submitted per artist - 3.

  • Submission to the call out is free/no fee - however if selected to exhibit in the show there will be a £15 per artist exhibition fee payable on selection.

  • If selected you will need to deliver & collect your work to/from the gallery prior to the show or send via courier/post. And this includes any unsold work at the end of the show too. All costs incurred re; delivery/post/collection will be covered by the artist.

  • Artists will be solely responsible for insuring their artwork whilst it is in transit prior to and after the show.

  • A submission form must be completed and emailed to: theoldlockupgallery@gmail.com - you’ll find the form at the foot of this webpage.

  • Submission forms can be downloaded, printed off and handwritten/completed - and a photograph sent as a jpeg if you prefer/find it easier. Please make sure any photographs are easy to read/decipher.

  • PDF’s of your work/embedded into a document will not be accepted.

  • Good quality JPEG’s of your work: with no blurring and cropped to size - with no background showing must be emailed along with your submission form to the above email address: attached in one email only - please don’t send separately.

  • File names for your JPEGS will need to be the title of your work or an abbreviation of the title.

  • There are no restrictions on size - however we aren’t able to accept/select a huge amount of large pieces - eg - over 1.5metres square.

  • You must be able to deliver work on Monday 30th September 3-5pm.

  • We accept postal deliveries of work - work must be scheduled to arrive on 27th September.

  • We are able to return unsold work via post - however this option is only available to artists who live outside of a 1.5 hour travelling radius of the gallery.

  • If selected the gallery commission on any sales is 50%.

  • All artists will be contacted re; selection etc by approx 22nd September.

  • All works will need to be framed - unless on a box frame/stretched canvas or board. All pieces ready to hang with D rings and chord as appropriate. No mirror plates.

  • Due to the high volume of submissions received no feedback will be available at any point throughout the submission/selection process.

We are now OPEN for submissions to the call out for the show and we warmly welcome you to step forward and submit your work up until the deadline of the callout on 15th September at midnight.

It’s advisable that you download the form prior to this as this webpage will be removed at 9pm on the 15th September.