Vote for your favourite Surrey Artist during this year's Open Studios
For the fourth consecutive year Surrey Artists Open Studios and New Ashgate Gallery are working in partnership to host the Baines Surrey Artist of the Year competition. Here we ask the public to vote for their favourite artists during their visits to Open Studios in June.
Only those who visit more than four studios are eligible to use the Loyalty Card (attached to an Open Studios brochure or downloadable here) to cast their vote (one vote per person). In 2011 over 500 votes were cast.
The top 10-14 artists will progress to the Surrey Artist of the Year 2012 Exhibition, held at the New Ashgate Gallery in September 2012.
The winner of Surrey Artist of the Year will be calculated from the public vote and a judges' vote at this exhibition. To make sure you receive full details please join our mailing list using the Loyalty Card.
Why do we need your votes?
Casting your vote will help our Surrey Artists' on their journey to continue to profile their art practice in one of Surrey's best contemporary Arts Galleries.
We hope that you enjoy your visits round this year's Surrey Artists Open Studios and become inspired to make a day of it and visit more than four!
Benefits of Surrey Artist of the Year to Surrey's Open Studios artists:
- Exhibiting and selling work to a wider audience
- Overall winner will receive a solo exhibition at the gallery during 2013
- SAOS participation in a professional practice seminar
- £1000 to support their professional practice.
New Ashgate Gallery
New Ashgate Gallery are proud to be associated with SAOS and Open Studios, making contemporary art and craft accessible to the widest audience possible.
The New Ashgate Gallery is one of the leading arts organisations in Surrey. As an educational charity, it promotes contemporary visual arts and crafts to as wide a public as possible, through a programme of changing exhibitions, projects with artists, makers, projects of support and development delivered by the trust with local, regional, national and international partnerships and educational events.
For full details of all exhibitions please visit their website.
Waggon Yard
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7PS
The New Ashgate are now looking for 2013 partners for the project. If you would like to support the project, please contact Outi: outi.remes@newashgate.org.uk.
The winner of the SAOY 2011, Stuart Stanley, will be showing his work at New Ashgate Gallery.
