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.
Buying Artwork at AAS Online Exhibitions
Using the OESS exhibition facility, two options are available on each artwork page:
Buy Now button:
This enables a buyer to purchase and pay immediately
The buyer can see the Terms and Conditions and enters his card details
Once payment is confirmed by Stripe the red dot appears on the artworks
An email is sent to the administrator stating artwork, price, artist name, artist email, buyer name and buyer email.
The buyer receives a receipt from Stripe.
The AAS OESS administrator informs the AAS Secretary, emails the contact details of the buyer to the artist. The artist must then arrange for the delivery of the artwork. If the cost of delivery has not been included in the sale price, the artist must arrange for payment of the delivery cost in line with the exhibition rules (which will be laid out in the Terms and Conditions).
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.
Detail from a watercolour by AAS member Peter Davis
The Aberdeen Artists Society AGM will be conducted via Zoom on Saturday 7th November at 2.00pm. AAS President Dr Bruce Swanson will preside over the formalities and cordially invites you to attend.
The meeting agenda will include nominations and voting for a new President and Vice President since both roles are becoming vacant, together with other important roles which you may be interested in. The next exhibition will need a Selection Committee, which is made up of all council members, in addition to two society members from out-with the council. A Hanging Team of eight, plus convenor can also incorporate members of the council and others from the society membership. These roles are valuable and an opportunity to influence, learn and to be involved with a major exhibition. If you would like to put yourself forward, or nominate someone (with their permission) please send an email to: info@aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk.
This past year has tested the Society’s flexibility and there has been a big effort to modernise, including upgrading the website, and much was learned from the transition from a gallery presentation to on online exhibition. Please join the meeting and share your views and offer your support. Any questions should be addressed to the president for inclusion in the agenda, again via email to: info@aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk. Note that it will not be possible to open up the floor to open discussion with the Zoom format.
If you would like to attend please can you send a note of interest to: info@aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk to receive the zoom entry information via email.
In these abnormal times of lockdown, artists might like to consider Pushing Out the Boat as a venue for exhibiting some existing or current work. Any works that are suitable for reproduction in magazine format. Members and non members alike, will find artwork featured in the most recent issue on the POTB website here. Full details on how to submit artworks can be found on the Submissions Instructions page. You are welcome to submit up to three images (from each artist), in colour and/or black-and-white, and of 2- or 3-dimensional work, line drawings, illustrations, photographs, etc. The whole process is online and very easy, so no consigning much-loved work to the mercies of the post office.
Thank you for your recent entry to the Aberdeen Artists Society Coming Home exhibition. We are writing to update you on the exhibition and sales processes.
First of all, the Society sends a huge thank you to everyone who has submitted work. The response to the Call for Works has been fantastic with over 600 entries received from around the world. The COVID19 pandemic may have put paid to the AAS’s expected return to the Aberdeen Art Gallery this year, however the response, and especially the quality of the works submitted by you all has, as a Council member put it: “ …provided a fizz to the “buzz” of reinstating AAS in the Art Calendar…”. We are confident that with the high number of quality of works submitted that we shall be able to put together an excellent online show of artwork.
The large number of works and the unexpected international spread of entries has however, meant that we have had to alter the way in which work will be sold from the online gallery. Our original sales process was that all sales would be conducted through the AAS with artists arranging delivery with buyers. The potential logistical issues raised by the response to the Call however, has required us to change this and now any sales will be arranged directly between the buyer and the artist. The role of the Society will be limited to introducing potential buyers to the artist. The Society will be the point of contact for email enquiries about artists and art works and we will introduce buyers to the artist by email (whilst remaining compliant with GDPR (data protection) rules) with the artist and buyer concluding the sale directly.
Because the AAS will not be transacting the sale, we think it only fair that you should pay no commission if you are successful in your sale, so you will keep 100% of the sales price. Note that Aberdeen Artists Society is an artist-led, self-funded organisation and any donations you may see fit to give to the Society out of the proceeds of a sale would be very welcome and used to benefit artists in North East Scotland.
The final piece of news is that the Aberdeen Art Gallery (AAG) has advised us that there is no possibility of holding the exhibition in their Gallery at any time this year and therefore we have to confirm that the show will be online only in 2020. Despite this development our Selection and Hanging Teams are working diligently with Int-Tech the website developer, to present your work at its best in an online gallery setting. Aberdeen Art Gallery have confirmed that they will continue to support the Society and the exhibition with publicity, and we will be publicising the exhibition on our social media channels and via OESS to give the widest possible exposure of your work. AAG have also confirmed AAS are in their plans for a major exhibition in the gallery in 2022 when hopefully things will have returned to normal.
We hope that these changes to the exhibition, which are the result of a rapidly evolving situation prompted by our move online, are not too inconvenient to you and we look forward to presenting your work in the exhibition which opens online on 20th June.
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.
“The Society has been established for over one hundred years, although exhibitions did not run during the wars years; in the late 1940s, and early 1950s (the 2014 exhibition was the the 80th in this time) – and, it seems a little incredulous, the Art Gallery in Schoolhill, Aberdeen was actually built to house the Society’s Annual Exhibition and the Macdonald Collection.
The early exhibitions of the Society featured such revered artists as Augustus John; the english impressionists, including Walter Sickert, and members of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement” …..
A fully illustrated account of the history of the Aberdeen Artists Society can be found in the book “Particles of Light” by John Morrison, published in 2000 by the Society.
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