Print Cromer 2025
The State of Play
- The State of Play: Print Cromer 25
- Curator Heather Guthrie
- Selection panel
- Heather Guthrie, Craig Frost, Kay Barker, Alison Macfarlane, Neil Bousfield
Closing date for submissions Friday, 9th May.
The State of Play invites printmakers to probe where we are now via block, stone, plate or screen.
How does your work register the state of play in your life today – as an individual, in your relationships, through preferred places or personal possessions? Perhaps the state of play, in the bigger picture, prompts your visual response to global affairs? Humour, playfulness, mischief or subversion may also feature. Can you resist the void? Do you bite unruly lines in the margins? Or, is your literal state of play mark-making with inky fingers?
Submission fee £5 per item
We invite printmakers to submit up to 3 works of original print for the selection panel to consider, in response to the brief
Submissions are welcome in any original printmaking medium (no giclee reproductions please) and works must have been made in the last 12 months. To make sure that we can show a wide range of work, we’re looking for a maximum framed size of A2 (42 x 59.4cm) or smaller. Artists are welcome to submit unframed work with clear instructions as to how it should be displayed (artists’ books for example).
Submissions are open worldwide, but please be aware that it’s the artist’s responsibility to deliver and to collect any unsold work.
Entries will be selected by our panel based on the images supplied and a few lines about how the brief has been interpreted. All work will be anonymous to panellists during the selection and no personal information will be shared at that time.
Cromer Artspace will take commission of 20% on all sales and the submission fees are £5 per work up to three works per artist.
Please send up to three images with a short cv and under 100 words about the response to the brief. Submissions should be sent using the form below by 9th May. We will notify you of the panel’s decisions by 20th May
Key Dates
- Deadline for submissions: 9th May (up to 11:59pm)
- All artists will be notified of the selection panel’s decision by 20th May
- Successful applicants will be asked to deliver their work(s) on Tuesday 15 July 5-7pm or 16th July 10am -12 noon
- Exhibition open 19 July -3 August
- Collection of unsold work 4 August 4-6 or 5 August 10-4
APPLICATIONS
All artists must submit their entries using the form below, paying £5 submission fee for each work.
The form provides an optional space for you to add up to 100 words to summarise your work or practice if you would like to.
Entries must be submitted online as digital JPEG files only, files to be no larger than 3MB in size. Each entry will be judged on your image, which will be projected onto a large screen to be judged anonymously. It is vital that the quality of images reflects the work accurately and as professionally as possible within the 3MB limit.
When filling in the submission form please note that the name you provide will be the name printed in the exhibition material if successful. If you have an ‘artist name’ that is different to the name on your bank account, please let us know when completing the form.
Cromer Artspace can accept no liability for loss of or damage to works submitted for exhibition. You are advised to arrange your own insurance. Cromer Artspace take every care over work submitted.
Any work considered a conservation, health and safety risk, or likely to cause public offence will not be accepted.
The light in Artspace on the Prom is strong, so please consider problems with reflection when deciding whether to frame work. Frames should be not less than half-an-inch wide at the back and have D rings attached for hanging. We will accept unframed work and do our best to ensure it is well looked after, but the artist needs to accept it may be at risk of damage. Please indicate if the work will be unframed, and include information on hanging or display. No clip frames or plastic in place of glass.
SALES
All work submitted needs to be available to purchase or marked as NFS. Payment to artists for works sold during the exhibition will be processed after the exhibition closes.
There will be a 20% commission taken on sales. Those who sell work will be invited to make a further donation to Cromer Artspace.
This year we will have an online sales system; artists will be responsible for fulfilling any online orders.
Delivery, Install and Collection
The artist is responsible for all transport and associated costs to and from Cromer
ELIGIBILITY
All printmakers over 16 are eligible to enter, whether amateur, student, semi-professional and/or graduate, professional or established.
Submissions must have been created by the applicant during the previous 12 months; the work must be your own. No late submissions will be accepted
We consider an original print to be artwork that has been either wholly or partly manually printed by the artist (or printed under the artist’s direct supervision). The artist will have created an image on block, stone, plate or screen from which the final print is produced. They will choose the paper that the image is printed on and will determine the edition size of the print (the number of copies printed). It is not a reproduction.
After you submit your entry, there will be a short delay while the files are uploaded.