The Society

Twenty places
a year.

Four issues. Five artists in each. That is the whole of it.

What happens

Open calls

Four a year, one for every issue. The theme comes first and the work answers it.

Challenges

Shorter assignments in between. Made for making, not for winning.

On view

One work, one week, at the front of the site. Everyone who visits sees it.

The issue

Five artists carry a theme across a whole issue. Read online, printed on paper.

The room

A wall in the exhibition that goes with the issue, for as long as it hangs.

What it costs

Nothing.

There is no fee and there never was one. Entry is by portfolio review, and that review is the only door.

Support keeps the printing going, and that lives on its own page. It has nothing to do with getting in.

What does not happen

Not everyone gets in.

Five places an issue means good work waits for a theme that fits it. A no is often a matter of timing.

And there is no individual feedback. One person reads every submission, so notes for everyone is a promise that would break.

Not everything belongs.
The right work does.

Not in yet

Put your work forward.

Five to seven images and a line about the work. The next open call opens on 1 August.

Apply as a creative
Already in

Straight through.

Open calls, challenges and everything else are behind the door.

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