Greetings from our artists!
The 36 great self-portraits submitted have now been combined into one exciting digital image as below.
Keep an eye out for this appearing on our Website, on Facebook and on Instagram. There will also be a short video showing the build-up of the image appearing soon.
More news is to come concerning the uses of this image, and in the meantime – well done to everyone concerned. Thank you!
Almost there! With the 2021 Open Exhibition under our belts we are now working on a Facing Forward image launch in July. If you haven’t already joined the collection, please send us an image of your portrait before the end of June. (As before: square format, 2 MB min, images and queries to admin@aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk please).
The responses have been so encouraging that we are planning to continue collecting our AAS ‘faces’ – updating and expanding the dimensions of the composite image – an image that we shall have the opportunity to use as an introduction to ourselves at the 2022 exhibition in Aberdeen Art Gallery!
Last summer saw the society embark on an exciting new venture. We commissioned Aberdeen based film maker Martina Camatta to produce a series of documentaries about the Aberdeen Artists Society called ‘A Conversation in Time’. Our first release put the spotlight on Anna Shirron, an early career artist and member of the society. The film is accessible via our website. We are currently working on the second documentary which narrates the history of the Aberdeen Artists Society from its early beginnings to today.
The people who make up the Aberdeen Artists Society, its membership, are very much at the heart of this film. We, the membership, have shaped and driven the society through the centuries to the current day. Therefore, we would like YOUR VOICE to be part of our story. We are looking for volunteers to record a set of phrases which we can use as voiceovers. If you are interested, please read on.
Below you’ll find the first set of voiceover sentences we would like to include in the first part of the documentary.
AAS documentary – Set 1
You can record all or any of them on your device/phone and send us the file.
You don’t have to read them word by word if you don’t want to, if you prefer to give your version of it, feel free to improvise, as long as the meaning stays the same.
Please keep the microphone/phone about 8-10 inches from your lips, and avoid putting emphasis on consonants like f/p/s/t.
If you have the chance to rename the file with “SET1-your name” it would be great, so we can take your name for the end credits. If you can’t don’t worry, but please mention in the email how you would like your name to appear in the credits (i.e. Elisabeth or Liz) or if you don’t want your name to appear at all.
Please email your recorded files by the 8th of May directly to Martina Camatta at smarty_78@yahoo.it and copy to Rita Kermack at ritakermack@aol.com.
To make bureaucracy easier (and avoid forms to be signed, scanned etc..), please note that by submitting your voiceover you acknowledge that this is a voluntary contribution and you will not ask for payment (now or in the future). Your voiceover will be used only for the purpose of the Aberdeen Artists Society (AAS) documentary that will be broadcasted online (or any other venue) for the launch of the online exhibition, and will be kept online until the AAS finds useful. By sending us the file, you acknowledge the above.
Thank you for taking part and we look forward to HEARING YOUR VOICE!
Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Screenprints, Photography, Watercolour, Drawing, Mixed Media, Jewellery and Video
SUBMISSIONS FOR AAS OPEN ART EXHIBITION 2021
The exhibition will feature new or current works, produced during or after 2019.
Submission of artworks will take place on-line, using the widely used Open Exhibition Submission System (OESS). A link to OESS can be found on the AAS website.
Photographic images are uploaded to OESS for consideration by Aberdeen Artists Society Selection and Hanging Committees. Selected works will be hung in the online gallery rooms.
All entrants will complete a Media release statement allowing release of general publicity ie statements/pictures of works etc or NOT ie “I allow”….or otherwise. This will allow Aberdeen Artists Society to use images of artworks for eg catalogues, local and national press publicity, media and videos. Entrants will also be asked to provide a UK address.
KEY DATES
EXHIBITION ORGANISERS:
President AAS Donnie Ross and AAS Council Members – Andrew Dewar, Susie Hunt,
Claire Kidd, Trisha Richie and Gerry Stott.
All enquiries to AAS email: info@aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk
2D WORKS
Artists are invited to submit up to 3 current (2D) two-dimensional artworks, completed during or after 2019. Work may include: paintings, drawings, screenprints, photographs, mixed media and textiles. Giclee prints will not be considered.
3D WORKS
VIDEO WORKS
SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS
For help with online entry difficulties, please contact OESS (details on the entry form) otherwise please contact Aberdeen Artists Society’s Exhibition Organiser by emailing an account of the problem you are experiencing together with your contact details to info@aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk
PLEASE NOTE – OESS HELPLINE
Artists should login to OESS on or very soon after 28th May to find out if their work has been selected.
AAS/OESS will send emails to the successful entrants to inform them of the outcome, on 1st-3rd of June 2021.
COMMUNICATIONS:
All communication will be by AAS email or via OESS.
SALES:
Details of the buying and selling procedures can be found in the Standing Rules section
on the website – https://aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk
EXHIBITION OPENING/PRIZES/SALES/PAYMENTS ABERDEEN ARTISTS SOCIETY ONLINE EXHIBITION SUMMER 2021 OPENING EVENT
The exhibition will be opened by Dr. Donnie Ross MB, ChB, FRCA, President AAS, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust Founder-Member, Retired Medical Director of NHS Grampian.
The following prizes will be awarded:
The MSD Design Ltd* and GRP Aberdeen Ltd* prizes in the list above were gifted by Martin Stevenson, who is the owner of both Companies with the aim of encouraging and championing traditional drawing and painting imbued with the British school aesthetic. It would be expected that prize winners would display mastery in the techniques underpinning drawing and painting: draughtsmanship and understanding of the emotional palette.
SALES
All works sold will be marked in the usual way with a red dot, and sold works must remain in the exhibition until it closes on 29th August 2021.
PAYMENTS TO PRIZEWINNERS AND WORKS SOLD
Payments to prizewinning artists and for works sold during the show will be made by Aberdeen Artists Society by cheque or BACS.
How to become a member of Aberdeen Artists Society:
Go to – https://aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk/membership/
Aberdeen Artists Society (AAS) Council and the Exhibition Organisers will not under any circumstances discuss with entrants or external entities any aspect whatsoever of the outcomes of our Selection and Hanging.
For entrants experiencing problems not fixable by OESS helpline, you can contact one of the Exhibition Organisers as follows:
Send an email to: info@aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk describing your problem, and include your name and mobile telephone number.
One of the Exhibition Organisers will call you back.
Please note, we can’t discuss any aspect of selection or hanging other than practical or logistical difficulties you may be experiencing with the process of submission.
Using the OESS exhibition facility, two options are available on each
artwork page:
Buy Now button:
Under GDPR regulations, by entering into the transaction, the artist and the buyer agree to allow their contact details to be shared with the art society, and with each other for the sole purpose of negotiating the sale and delivery of the artwork.
Click here to view the latest update to the March 2021 Newsletter
In this newsletter you will find news about current and upcoming events in 2021
Look out for more information about AAS 2021 online exhibition in the next newsletter -coming soon! https://aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk/category/exhibition/
“Facing Forward”
AAS artists are amazing! We adapted and thrived during the four-year closure of our main exhibition venue, we successfully created our first on-line exhibition in 2020, and we are looking forward to what comes next.
An exciting new initiative is now being launched to celebrate our talents and our diversity by producing one collaborative composite artwork – “Facing Forward” Members are invited to donate images of self-portraits which will be arranged in a grid format as a poster for the AAS. Here we all are! The final combined image of all our faces will be primarily used for publicity purposes and may take any form – website illustration, projection onto internal or external walls, or printed as AAS promotional stationery. And all arranged within current Covid 19 health restrictions!
Further details are available at: https://aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk/category/exhibition/
Last summer saw AAS embark on an exciting new venture. We commissioned Aberdeen
based film maker Martina Cook to produce a series of documentaries about the Aberdeen
Artists Society called ‘A Conversation in Time’. Our first release put the spotlight on Anna
Shirron, an early career artist and member of the society. It follows Anna’s career since
graduating from Gray’s School of Art and highlights her engagement with Grampian
Hospitals Art Trust and explores her aspirations for future projects. The film is accessible
via a link on our website: https://aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk/video-documentaries/
As part of the visible success of the 2020 online exhibition Coming Home we attracted this
charming prize from Canada.
Malcolm Inglis has generously donated funds to support 4 memberships of AAS. The Inglis
family have several historical links with Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, and have a direct
family connection with AAS Member Dr. Roderick Scott, whose art they particularly
admire.
Following discussions with Libby Curtis, Head of RGU Gray’s School of Art (GSoA), we
now invite applications from art students at GSoA.
If you are an art student at RGU GSoA and would like to avail yourself of this excellent and
worthwhile opportunity to join AAS, please send your name and contact details, along with
a note of your year of study at Gray’s, and an indication of your main creative interests, For
Attention AAS President Dr. Donnie Ross, by email to: info@aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk
Memberships renewals and new applications for membership can be made on our website:
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