SKETCHBOOK 24
Email your submissions to Hello@unassignedgallery.com.au with the title “SKETCHBOOK 24 ”.
Submissions close October 13th 5pm.
EXHIBITION CALL-OUT
SKETCHBOOK 24
Curated by Phoebe Greaves, Bradley East, Nour Abdullatif and Nathan McGlynn
Unassigned Gallery is seeking exhibitors for our inaugural end of year exhibition: “SKETCHBOOK 24”. This exhibition is designed to celebrate the role that sketching, in its many forms, plays in the development of artists careers. The sketchbooks will be displayed in an archival format at Unassigned Gallery throughout the month of December. The show will be in partnership with a sister exhibition to be held at Changing Room Gallery in Fitzroy. This call-out is specifically for the Unassigned Gallery exhibition.
The exhibition will see a wall of opened sketchbooks, with a large table in the centre of the gallery. On the opposite wall, a juried selection of finished works from exhibiting artists will be displayed in a salon style.
Visitors will be invited to request a sketchbook (one at a time) to be brought to the table for a more-intimate viewing, here they will be offered the opportunity to handle the books and go through the pages under the supervision of gallery invigilators. As such you will need to be comfortable with visitors flicking through them. Our team will make sure that everyone is appropriately handling each sketchbook.
We are after artists of all varieties, anyone who uses a physical sketchbook is encouraged to apply. Exhibited works will need to adhere to gallery values, we will choose not to exhibit any work that displays homophobic, transphobic, sexist or racist views.
WHAT YOU NEED TO APPLY:
3 - 5 Images of the sketchbook you wish to enter showing different pages
Dimensions for the sketchbook
2 images of finished artworks (they do not need to be directly referencing the sketchbooks)
Artists CV
Instagram handle
(If you do not have one of these please get in touch)
WHAT ARE THE COSTS FOR THE EXHIBITION:
There is a $50 fee for each successful applicant, this fee will be used to cover gallery rent
WHEN/WHERE IS THE EXHIBITION
This exhibition will take place at Unassigned Gallery, 55 Edward Street Brunswick, a sister exhibition will take place at Changing Room Gallery, Level 1, 118 Elgin Street, Carlton.
The Unassigned Gallery Exhibition will open Friday night at 6pm on the 6th of December, and close on Monday 6th January.
SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
If your sketchbook is accepted for exhibition, we will need a head-shot or other image for promotional purposes. If you are an anonymous artist you are welcome to use another image that links people back to your work.
Some successful applicants will be invited to contribute a finished artwork for exhibition alongside the sketchbooks, these applicants will be selected by the curatorial team and notified with time available to either make a new work or submit something already created to the show.
You will be required to deliver the sketchbooks yourself to Unassigned Gallery in the weeks leading up to the exhibition.
Sketchbooks and any finished works will need to be collected from Unassigned Gallery after the exhibition closes.
Email your submissions to Hello@unassignedgallery.com.au with the title “sketchbook24”
FAQs
I don’t have professional photos for my work, does this matter?
Not for applications. We don’t expect everyone to have professional quality images of sketchbooks etc. if you are selected for the finished artwork salon we may ask for a professional image to be taken. We will be able to discuss this further if selected. For now, we just want to see the sketchbooks as an object to consider.
Does the sketchbook need to be finished?
No. We are looking for sketchbooks that give a good reference for am artist’s current practise. As such we are expecting blank pages from time to time. We would however request that works submitted for consideration are at least 50% filled.
I don’t draw, can my sketchbook be for poetry ideas/non visual work?
Yes! We want a very loose interpretation of sketchbooks… we see it as the following:
Sketch: a note, whether its a visual sketch, a poetic sketch, an idea in knitting, or a collection of photographs. Whatever you use as your intimate idea exploration, so long as its physical.
Book: a physical collection of pages or materials bound together with covers that can be opened and closed
I haven’t made a CV before, does this matter?
Not entirely. Every artist interested in exhibiting needs a CV. But if you have not made one before we will still consider your work, we are also looking at ways to help you put one together, get in touch with us and lets see what we can do.
My sketchbook often has swearing/nudity/dark themes, is this a problem?
No. Unassigned Gallery is a gallery that is interested in showing all forms of art, none of the curators or galleries are explicitly made for kids and as such we don’t need things to be G rated. The only thing we will flat-out refuse is work that seek to perpetuate bigotry. So nothing of a homophobic, sexist, racist, islamaphobic or any other form of hateful ideology.
My work as a queer artist often deals with homophobia, and slurs feature in my sketchbooks. Is this a problem?
No.
Works that deal with homophobia are not homophobic.
Works that deal with racism are not racist.
Works that deal with misogyny are not misogynistic.
Works that deal with these issues do not espouse these views, they challenge them.
Your sketchbooks are typically unseen, intimate spaces, safe spaces for you to explore your work. We are not seeking to censor with these rules, we are seeking to build the community of artists we respect and wish to work with. All sketchbooks and artists will be considered in good faith.
My sketchbooks are quite large, can I apply with an a3?
Yes, anything from a7 to a3 is accepted, anything larger than a3 is a bit hard to display in the gallery context. If you only work larger, still send an application in, if there are enough large submissions we may be able to reconsider the hang to accomodate.
I dont want anyone touching my sketchbook.
We will have invigilators responsible for ensuring sketchbooks are handled appropriately, though we understand this is a line some may not want crossed with their work. We will have other sketchbook ideas at different times, but this show may not be the right time to show your work, keep an eye out for other events as they happen!