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The 11th International Collage Exhibition & Exchange has joined earlier exchanges on the outofsight.co.nz site.
A list of artists who have already sent in their collages will be kept here.
For the 12th International
Artists each make 13 collages (more or less), size not bigger than A4 (about 8" X 10" or 20cm X 26cm), and send them to me in New Zealand, to arrive by 20th March, 2010 (early is good, it saves a lot of the last minute overwork).
The other collages are shared out into parcels which are sent back to each contributing artist.
- One from each artist will be offered for sale at an exhibition here in New Plymouth, New Zealand with the artist setting the price.
30% commission taken, the rest to the artist.
That selling exhibition will also be on the Net on the Virtual TART site, at http://virtual.tart.co.nz allowing the world-wide audience the chance to buy these collages.
If unsold, that collage will rejoin the exchange.- One is part of a month-long exhibition on the Virtual TART site during April and will also permanently be on exhibition on the outofsight.co.nz Internet site.
It will then either be donated to a suitable art institution or will be part of the exchange..
(For art institutions interested in owning one year's collection, click here for more information.)
So you send 13 of yours, get back 12 others (or 11 and money from your sale), and you become part of a public collection.
NOTE: if you can't finish as many as 13, or you want to send more, that's fine. You'll just get fewer (or more) back in your parcel.
Here's how it works:
| Make 13 collages, roughly 8" X 10" (20cm X 26cm) Can be smaller, not too much bigger. Please, no bigger than A4 size. Send :
Dale Copeland 7266 Surf Highway R D 37 Okato 4381 NEW ZEALAND (Phone number 6 752 8126 if you need it)to arrive before 20th March, 2010 A package of 11 or 12 collages by other artists will be sent to each participating artist by mid May 2010. |
FAQ
- Quality/Curating/Acceptance?
All work by adults is accepted.
(It's hard to make a fair exchange between children and adults, so nobody under about 16 please.)
Please avoid images with explicit sex considering that children can be part of the online exhibition audience.
Sorting is done (as much as possible) by quality.
If you send untidy work on thin paper, that's probably what you'll receive back. - Framed or mounted?
No frames. Roughly 8" X 10" base.
Collages can be smaller, perhaps attached to an 8X10 piece of thick watercolour paper. - NOT TOO THICK. Please, no sharp big bits of metal sticking up.
Try to keep the maximum thickness down to less than a centimetre or half an inch. Thanks. - Not too heavy. Postage costs are ruinous for work on wood or metal.
- Originals, a series or copies?
Can be a series, but not straight copies.
The usual rule-of-thumb is to make something you're proud enough to sign your name to.
O.K.? - For getting through Customs: Don't use plant material such as dried grass, twigs, berries ....
(New Zealand is very fussy about letting in possible plant diseases.)
On the package label list contents as "collages, for exhibition only" and write a low value.
If a package is listed as being worth much more than $100 or so then Customs tries to charge me a tax.
I can get it cancelled, but it slows down delivery of your package.
(And don't worry, I'm well aware that your collages are worth HEAPS more than the Customs value.) - I'll put a description on the selling part of the Net exhibition (image size, and whether the
base is card, thin paper, whatever.
This is fairer for the viewers/buyers. - For art institutions interested in owning one year's collection, click here for more information.
Have I forgotten anything?
Let me know if you're going to take part. Thanks.
email to Dale at dale @ tart.co.nz (without the spaces)
| The small legal bit: By taking part in this exchange artists are agreeing to allow one of their collages to become part of the collection of an art institution to be selected each year. The artist is also agreeing to allow their work to be shown on the websites virtual.tart.co.nz and outofsight.co.nz Copyright of the work remains, as always, with the artist. While the copyright is retained by the artist on works donated to the art institution, unlimited usage is granted to the museum/institution for publicity, raising money etc. Acknowledgement of the artist is requested in any such usage. |
Selling your collage in New Zealand
For those who have asked advice on setting a suitable selling price
(the hardest thing for an artist to do!).
In New Zealand it is hard to sell any unframed collage for more than NZ$100, which comes to only about US$70 at today's exchange rate. I usually ask about $NZ60 - 100 for mine, that's about US$ 40 - 75
30% commission is taken on sales for this exhibition, and the rest will be sent to you with your packet of collages.
(In the currency of your country if it's humanly possible.)
If your collage doesn't sell, it will join the exchange.
So just let me know which one is for sale, and the selling price (specify which currency!!)
The International 11th Exhibition/Exchange collection was shown in Puke Ariki from 28th March until 5th May.
Click here to see the Puke Ariki website.
And click here to read the Press Release they put out about the 11th International (in pdf format).
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The 10th Exchange
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  Click here to read the text on invitation & ticket. And also the text of the article in the Amarillo Style magazine. |
| Both sides of the invitation and ticket for the "Art Stampede" in Amarillo, Texas. The 10th exchange. | ||
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Some comments from artists in 2008.
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"My packet of collage arrived today and they are all awesome! Thanks so much for such a great selection."M.O. "What a thrill to open the mail box today and see the big packet from New Zealand! "L.M. "thank you so much for such a wonderful selection of work, it is so exciting seeing all the different styles of working"A.D. "Today I received package. Thank you so much. see you next year... I always love the exchange and the wonderful! creativity of the artists!!"S.J. "Just to let you know that my wonderful package of collages arrived this morning. I am really pleased with them"R.D. "I also received my collages today. What fun, I'm absolutely over the moon with all my beautiful exchange pieces and will try and thank every artist individually as much as possible. It must have been a gigantic task to swap them all out and mail them off. I'll keep my envelope too as a lovely reminder! I have loved taking part so much that as soon as I saw you're going to do this all over again next year, I could not help myself but simply had to commit myself immediately." F.O. "My collages arrived today and I love them! What a joy it is to receive the package from you every year."J.R. "another wonderful surprise... all the work you sent was fabulous. i love this project. thanks so much for doing it."L.G. "wow, what a package of collages! I am thrilled about this collection! "C.K. "My collages came in today's mail. I am so excited. You did such a great job of selecting on my behalf. I really appreciate it and I couldn't be happier with my collection."J.M. "I received the beautiful exchange collages today. Thanks for your careful selections - and for your dedicated time & efforts into this project."P.S. "I received my package also - and it is WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!! I will contact the individual artists soon. This is one of the highlights of my art year - truly."L.G. "My collage package arrived this week and I was just thrilled when I opened it and found one of yours. I'm just delighted with all of them...and getting all those e-mails from all over the world has been a real joy for me. Thank you so much for all that you do for us. I've already started planning for next year's exibition..."J.L. |
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"My collages arrived today. Thank you so much for all that you do. It's so much fun opening the package and seeing what other
collage artists are doing." J.R. "What a blast!! I am so thrilled with the collages I received. Wish I could figure out how some of the effects are achieved but I’ll email the artists soon and ask. I didn’t realize we could figure out who got what as well. That’s a huge amount of work you’ve done." L.H. "Thank you so much for organizing the Baker's Dozen. I love my new collages which arrived in the post today. They are AWESOME. I"M so looking foward to the exchange next year. I wish we could do two a year!!!!!" M.K. "I am so delighted with each and every piece in my parcel. I cannot express it adequately, I hope it is enough to say I am so glad I took part." M.G. "My package arrived today. Wow!!!! I think the quality of the work improves with each passing year." C.B. "I'd also like to pay respect to your logistic skills and computer literacy. This is one helluva feat to pull off and your attention to detail stuns me. So bravo. One very satisfied 'customer'." B.K. "I could not have been more thrilled with the artwork that came in the package nor more enriched by the experience of participating in this exchange." M.O. "Thanks so much. What a treat. And u are so clever matching up works. Lovely getting a doggy collage in exchange for my doggy one etc." N.C. "My package arrived today, and I feel like royalty! Every one a treasure, .." J.J. "Just wanted to say that I was honoured to be part of such an exciting event. Thank you so much. I was really awed and overwhelmed to receive a parcel of beautiful collage images." C.M. |
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