Lay your work on a clean, flat surface. If your work is large, it may be easier to mount it on the wall. Bright daylight and no artificial light is best. On an overcast day it may be better to photograph your work outside. Do not use camera flash.
Stand over your work without casting a shadow and hold your camera above. When focussing, make sure your work is centred and that the corners all appear as right angles on the camera screen/through the lens so that your picture is accurate and not distorted.
Take several images carefully, making sure to refocus each time.
If your image has irregular edges that you wish to include, you can photograph it against a neutral background eg. a plain white piece of paper.
To photograph 3D work, use a large sheet of white paper as a background. Take several photographs from every angle and turn your item so that no part of it is hidden by shadow.
Edit your images only by cropping the edges. Do not adjust anything else.
To submit your images to an online submission system, you may need to resize them. Follow the specifications stated upon submission.
Save your image with any required information in the title eg. your name, the year and the title of your work.
Open Call: return to Aberdeen Art Gallery June 2020
The exhibition will take place in galleries 2 and 3 on the ground floor of the Gallery – look out for details which will be announced shortly on our website and on social media platforms (see links below).
This exhibition marks a welcome re-entry for the Society after the prolonged closure of the gallery, which is happily now fully active with a splendid, rejuvenated setting. We are excited about renewing our relationship with the Gallery and to be working to create initiatives together – new spaces inviting new responses.
The exhibition will be Open Call; initial online submissions will be by OESS during April, followed by selection in May. Submissions will be invited for work in any media, e.g. framed works up to I metre, small 3d work (ceramics, sculpture, jewellery etc., but not limited to these), video, sound. There is also the possibility of artist performance and artist-led workshops and talks. Details will be announced on our website and on social media in February – look out for these!
There is a submission discount for society members so why not consider becoming a member? Apply for membership – or renew subscriptions which are due in February – see below.
This exhibition will open on Saturday 6th June with a civic party. There will be invited guests, AAS past alumni, artists and the public, prize-giving, speeches and the possibility of performances and workshops – we look forward to an afternoon of buzzing excitement, with new relationships being forged among already established ones; friends old and new in an energetic coming home for our beloved Society. We hope to see you there!
A template for you to offer proposals regarding workshops and talks at the Gallery during the AAS exhibition and the future will be available for download on the website and social media.
Sadie Main, catalogue cover, 2002, printed by Peacock Printmakers
Website Update
The newly updated website will be going live in February, 2020.
Look out for details of all activities on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
The gallery exhibition
Open call for work
Instructions for how to photograph your work – the quality of your initial Submitted image can be crucial in the selection process
Instructions for online submission to the exhibition
Online membership application and payment
Subscriptions are due in February
Stop Press 2022!
Aberdeen Artists Society’s following exhibition to be held in the large gallery on the new top floor of Aberdeen Art Gallery in 2022!
We also invite you to come to the meeting in person, where you can discuss the constitution and vote on any proposals that arise.
ART FAIR 2019
Call for Works for the Art Fair
Aberdeen Art Fair. The Music Hall. Friday 30th August (evening) – Sunday 1st September.
There will be a member’s prize of £150 regarding work that has been created for the event.
The call for ‘Drawing’ works to show at the Art Fair has been updated.
There will be fully online submission for the first time in the Society history. The submission will be accessed through www.aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk and will be open by the 1st August 2019.
Three students received cheques from Aberdeen Artists Society at the opening of their graduate shows this year and further to this, they will have works shown at the Aberdeen Artists stand at the Art Fair.
Isabel Mcleish, Claire Kidd and Nefeli Chrysanthou were chosen to receive the award for showing skillful and intriguing drawing, evidenced as instrumental in their artistic practice.
This year the Art Fair returns to the splendid newly refurbished Music Hall. We have taken a larger stand for the’Drawing’ show.
We would like to present an eye catching stand with diverse works on paper. Submissions from members of AAS will on this occasion be guaranteed display if they are suitable for exhibition. Open submissions from outwith the Society will be subject to a selection process.
Further details will be posted on The AAS Website and social media: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
‘Drawing – considered as any kind of work on paper regardless of the technique – is the load bearing skeleton for much creative experimentation, a medium favoured by painters and sculptors that often represents the first visualisation of an idea. ‘ John Berger
‘Drawing is the root of everything and time spent on that is actually all profit. ‘ Vincent Van Gogh’
The drawing is closest to the idea.’ Maria Lessing
There will be a member’s prize of £150 regarding work that has been created for the event.
Three drawing prizes will be offered to graduates of Grays School of Art 2019.
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