Brief - New Art West Midlands

The SELECTORS of New Art West Midlands 2016
are:
Sonia Boyce, Artist, Professor in Fine Arts,
Middlesex University and Professor of Black Art
and Design, University of the Arts, London
John Stezaker, Artist
Katharine Stout, Head of Programme, ICA
London
*CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FROM RECENT VISUAL
ARTS GRADUATES *
Following the success of New Art West Midlands 20132015 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in
partnership with mac Birmingham, Wolverhampton Art
Gallery and The Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry is
organising a series of high profile selected exhibitions of
work by recent visual arts graduates from the five
regionally-based university art schools. The aim of the
exhibitions is to profile the best work with a Fine Art
emphasis – in sculpture, painting, photography, mixed
media, installation, digital media, video/film art, live
art/performance - emerging from the university art
schools in the West Midlands since 2013 and offer new
visual arts graduates a high quality professional
development opportunity.
ELIGIBILITY
You are eligible to apply for this opportunity if you
graduated or are graduating at BA, MA or PhD level
from the following universities in the years 2013, 2014
or 2015.
— Birmingham City University
— Coventry University
— Staffordshire University
— University of Wolverhampton
— University of Worcester
Artwork can be in any media including live
art/performance, but must have a Fine Art practice
orientation. Disciplines focused on the areas of craft or
design are not eligible. If you applied for New Art West
Midlands 2014 or 2015 you can apply again for 2016,
but if your work was included in the 2014 or 2015
exhibitions, you will not be selected for exhibition again.
THE EXHIBITION
The multi-sited exhibition will be displayed at
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, mac Birmingham,
Wolverhampton Art Gallery and The Herbert Art Gallery,
Coventry between 12 February and 15 May 2016.
Artists and/or artworks will be selected in July 2015
following the initial application process.
ARTISTS’ OPPORTUNITIES
Artists selected for New Art West Midlands 2016
will also be eligible to be selected by venue
curators to receive one of five prizewinner awards
as well as being considered for further artist’s
opportunities such as residencies and/or
exhibitions offered by galleries across the West
Midlands region.
HOW TO MAKE AN APPLICATION
Please complete the following for your application
in digital format:
— Artist’s statement (500 words maximum).This
statement should include information about your
artistic practice and describe the work you have
submitted as part of your application.
— A maximum of 5 images or digital files that
best represents your practice as jpegs, weblinks to
Vimeo or YouTube and/or equivalent media
(maximum 5MB in total). If submitting video/film or
filmed live/art performance please send weblinks,
NOT screenshots. Please remember to give your
images legible file names and clear details of links
if your work can be viewed online, including your
details and the title of each work.
— The attached Application Form, completed
with your contact details and outlining the title,
media, date, format and dimensions of each of the
artworks submitted as supporting visual material
(including any specific technical or display
requirements of the work)
SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION
By emailing digital files and/or links to your uploaded
content (maximum 5MB in total) to
newartwm@birminghammuseums.org.uk
DEADLINE
The deadline for applications is
5pm, Monday 29 June 2015
We regret that Birmingham Museum and Art
Gallery, mac Birmingham, Wolverhampton Art
Gallery and The Herbert Art Gallery are unable to
respond to unsuccessful applications individually.
Selection will take place during July 2015 and only
successful applicants will be informed. If you have
not had a response by Monday 3 August 2015,
please assume your application has been
unsuccessful on this occasion.
PLEASE NOTE that selected work and artists
need to be available to deliver and install their