Terrible pun we know but that is one thing we do very well here! Yes you’ve guessed it, we have a little survey for you. This is your chance to be heard. We want to know what you care about as an artist and what you want.
We have big plans and we want to take you with us so you can help shape the future by spending 5 minutes or less filling out this quick survey! All answers are anonymous and non of your data is kept
We have some exciting news to share with all of you. Live Art Local CIC has added two new spaces to our art spaces: Garbos Exhibition Space and the Southsea Orthodontists Gallery, both previously curated by Island City Art and before them, Just Add Art.
We see this as a brilliant way to break into Portsmouth and increase our reach, showcasing some amazing up and coming artists to an even wider audience.
Live Art Local CIC/ Sticks Gallery now organises exhibitions in 5 venues, including our current gallery space. As we continue to grow I hope you join us as we seek to bring wonderful contemporary art by brilliant up and coming artists, with a few established creatives thrown into the mix to bigger audiences!
Our good friends at Hampshire Libraries are looking at having a theatrical celebration of Shakespeare next year at Fareham Library.
At this stage we are seeking those theatre companies who may be interested in being involved;
are you working on a new piece for the Shakespeare festivities and need a venue to show your work?
are you interested in creating a new piece to perform in libraries?
If this sounds like you get in touch with us today with a brief email and your contact details so we can pass them on! Email: events@liveartlocal.co.uk
We are seeking those members of Live Art Local who run courses and workshops who may be looking for space. We know that some of our members teach painting and craft workshops and that it can be very difficult to find cheap, regular space to enable you to do this. This is why we would love to invite you to work with us.
We are happy to have one off workshops or longer term courses. If you would like to discuss then please get in touch. So that you do not have to pay for the space if you do not have the numbers we are happy to take a small commission based on those you have attending. We are looking at this being approximately 10-15%
This is a call out to our wonderful artists, illustrators, crafts people and designers as an opportunity to sell your pieces through Sticks in Fareham.
We are a not for profit and so to help with our fundraising we are going to allow items to be sold via the Fareham Shopping Centre space. We would require a 10% commission on the selling price to go towards our projects but you are free to set your own price and keep 90%.
We are particularly interested in cards, especially with Christmas so close and smaller pieces that can be sold through the space. As well as zines on any subject.
We would be happy to come to individual agreements with artists on how long their cards and similar can be kept within the space.
If you are interested please get in touch by emailing help@liveartlocal.co.uk
CHRISTMAS ARTIST-MAKER MARKET
This November we are once again holding an arts market at Locks Heath shopping village. On Saturday 28th November we invite you to join us in the celebrations that lead to the shopping village’s Christmas Lights Switch on. There is bound to be a big crowd that day as the shopping village are pulling out all the stops to guarantee a successful event.
As with the Summer Art Market we will only be accepting high calibre work; we believe it is not fair to anyone to accept lower quality work. But if you are an artist, maker, designer, or upcycler we want to hear from you!!!
As part of our ethos we do not charge the large amounts of other art markets (it may be a long wait until our gazeebos are paid off!) as we want to bring great work to the masses and to enable artists and creatives to better make a sustainable living from what they do that doesn’t happen if you are paying out more for a pitch than you are likely going to make. It is therefore again we are only charging low prices for a place.
Live Art Local members will only be required to pay £5 for a spot if they own a gazeebo and £10 if they do not and require one to be provided.
Non-members will be asked to pay £15 if they own a gazzebo and £20 if they require one.
All artists and creatives are invited to join Live Art Local. To find out more about joining visit http://liveartlocal.co.uk/get_your_art_seen/.
We will be publicising the market from the beginning of November and will have 2 large banners on the day to guide people and make them aware of the event.
This is a FREE entry artist and makers market as part of a larger event.
Please fill out this form if you are interested in securing your place at this event
Artists are required to help promote their appearance at the artist-maker market, we can provide you with flyers.
We will where required provide you with a gazeebo, artists are responsible for organising their own display equipment, including tables, chair, boards
Artists must make sure they have adequate change
Set up times will be confirmed later in the week
To find out more about the venue please visit http://locksheathshoppingvillage.co.uk
THIS SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL TUESDAY 13TH OCTOBER!!!
Live Art Local have teamed up with Ferneham Hall to run a number of exhibitions over the next year. Each of these exhibitions is between 2 weeks and 1 month in length and will take place in the Meon Room, meaning that artwork will be visible to all those who are going to see shows (as the pass through the Meon Room on their way to the auditorium).
The first of these exhibitions runs from October 25th (Sunday) to November 7th.
For this call out we are seeking 2D work that interprets the theme “Suspense”. How you interpret the theme is up to you, we welcome work that is experimental.
This is FREE for Live Art Local members to submit to. To find out more about becoming a member and to join, click here
For non-members it is £3:50 to enter work to cover admin costs. All selected work will be featured on the STICKS Gallery website and, if for sale, work will be available to be sold via Ferneham Hall and Sticks Gallery. The commission taken for sold work is 20% to Ferneham Hall and 5% to Live Art Local.
Non members click below and you will be taken to a submission form upon payment.
Members just log in to be able to submit work for free.
You Need To Log In to Access This InformationSubmissions close on Sunday 11th October with selected artists being contacted by Friday 16th October. Work is to be dropped off at Sticks the weekend 17-18th October, time will be updated in due course. The exhibition runs from the 25th October – 7th November in the Meon Room
We have teamed with Cafe Ethos, Cafe and Art Space to put on a series of exhibitions, each running for between 2-3 months. The first of these will be titled, Surveillance. Artists are invited to submit 2D works that reflect this theme. There is no other criteria and all 2d media will be considered.
This is free for Live Art Local artists to submit to, just login to access the form and upload your work.
If you are not already a Live Art Local member, you can join by visiting http://liveartlocal.co.uk/get_your_art_seen/
You can also enter this call out as a guest for the cost of £3.50. Simply pay your donation and then you will be redirected to the form and upload.
You Need To Log In to Access This InformationSubmissions close on the 2nd October and we will notify those selected by 4th October. Work is to be delivered any day before 9th October to Sticks Gallery in Fareham.
Human is the first exhibition held at Sticks since we discovered our license was going to be extended. We are seeking work from artists in any medium, (including 2d, 3d, film and sound) in response to this theme.
Our choice for the theme of this next exhibition is inspired by the ongoing refugee crisis currently ongoing in Europe and the way it has divided public opinion; where people have become headlines rather than human beings and life has become cheap.
Work does not need to relate directly to the refugee crisis and can instead be a way of questioning what it means to be human: who are we, why are we here, what is humanity? Anything that relates to the word “human”, be as outside the box as you like!
All artists can enter this call out but we ask for a contribution of £3:50 from non members. As with the majority of our exhibitions, Live Art Local members can enter for free.
If you are not already a Live Art Local member, you can join by visiting http://liveartlocal.co.uk/get_your_art_seen/
Non-Members can enter by donating £3:50 below. Upon completion of payment you will be forwarded to a page with the form and image upload, please complete these and send at least one image of your work.
Member of Live Art Local can enter by logging in and filling out the form below:
You Need To Log In to Access This InformationSubmissions are open until Saturday 3rd October. Selected artists will be notified by Monday 5th October and work will be received until Sunday 11th October. There will be a private view between 5:30 – 7:30pm on Thursday 15h October with new opening hours commencing on Saturday 17th October.
