Are you Nottinghamshire’s Queen (or King) of Royal Memorabilia?
Have you a collection of royal memorabilia you’d love the chance to show off? Be it a bounty of bejewelled biscuit tins or a shelf full of humble mugs and plates we want to hear from you about your royal collection!
Rufford Gallery is celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this May and June with our Right Royal Extravaganza. The gallery will be adorned with bunting, photographs and memorabilia from the Queen’s Coronation, Silver and Golden Jubilees and commemorative plates and mugs painted by visitors preceding the show. Crowns, mugs, plates and thrones designed by artists and makers on a Diamond Jubilee theme will also feature.
We’d love to hear from you about your royal memorabilia collection. Please send us your name, address, daytime contact telephone number, email address if you have one and a brief description of your collection by 24 February 2012.
Email details to artsadmin@nottscc.gov.uk
or write to:
Memorabilia collection
Rufford’s Right Royal Extravaganza
Nottinghamshire County Council
Cultural Services Arts
County Offices
Thoroton Road
West Bridgford
Nottingham
NG2 5FT
Call out for Artists and Makers to create mugs, plates, crowns and thrones for Rufford’s Right Royal Extravaganza
Perfect plates, majestic mugs, thrones and crowns bejewelled or bare in any 3D medium required for Diamond Jubilee Exhibition at Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire.
We invite your submissions of mugs, plates, crowns and thrones which respond to the theme of Diamond Jubilee. Quirky creations or sedate regal responses in any medium are equally welcome but must be three dimensional.
Feel free to play around with ideas of scale and functionality (or not). Perhaps you can knit a mug, throw a miniature plate to make a brooch, craft a pair of sparkling crown earrings, sew a throne shaped throw - the choice is yours!
Your work may be offered for sale if you wish, we will charge a reduced rate of 20% commission (plus VAT) on sales (credit cards purchases will attract a small administration fee).
A selection of works will be shown as part of Rufford’s Right Royal Extravaganza Tuesday 15 May to Sunday 10 June. The show previews on Sunday 13 May, 2-4pm when visitors will be encouraged to attend adorned in red, white and blue and crowns of their own creation.
How to submit your work
You can apply online or by post. Online applications are free. Applications received by post will attract a £5 administration fee.
The deadline for applications is 5pm 2 April 2012.
Either:
- Fill in the online form and attach image(s) of your creations.
- Download, complete and return the postal application form [Word], a CD of your images (clearly marked with your name) and a cheque for £5 made payable to ‘Nottinghamshire County Council’.
Right Royal Extravaganza 2012 - Terms and Conditions
1. Goods for sale
- All work submitted for exhibition at the Right Royal Extravaganza 2012 must be the original work created by the named applicant.
2. Fees
- All applications submitted via the online application form are free of charge.
- Postal entries are charged at £5. You are welcome to send in your application by post with an accompanying CD of images but must enclose a cheque made payable to ‘Nottinghamshire County Council’ for £5 to cover administration costs.
- Selected exhibitors will be able to offer their work for sale at 20% commission (plus VAT on commission).
- Work sold by credit/debit card will attract a small processing fee of 2%
3. Confirming Selection and Delivery/Collection Policy
- All applicants will be notified by email of the outcome of selection by the middle of April 2012.
- We are unable to give individual feedback concerning either successful or successful applications.
- Selected artists will be required to confirm the offer to exhibit by return email and deliver their work to Rufford Craft Centre in the week commencing 30 April and no later than Monday 7 May 2012.
- Work submitted must be labelled as instructed and accompanied by a stock list in our required format (full details will be given to successful artists)
- Unsold work must be collected from the gallery by Wednesday 13 June at the latest.
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The Village Ventures programme features performances in village and community halls across the county. Supported by local volunteer promoters, the programme hosts a wide range of national and international touring companies and performers. From theatre to jazz, cabaret to folk and dance to children's shows, Village Ventures features a diverse and hugely enjoyable range of performances for all ages.
Creative Greenhouse supports Creative Industries
The Creative Greenhouse programme aims to 'cultivate creative business' and to stimulate the development of the Nottinghamshire creative economy by supporting, developing and promoting the local creative industry sector. This is through a variety of seminars, exhibitions and network events across the region. These events are open to all Greenhouse members and membership is free to all local businesses in the creative sector.
If you are interested in finding out more about Creative Greenhouse or becoming a member visit the website: www.creativegreenhouse.org.uk or e-mail: paul.hough@creativegreenhouse.org.uk or tel: 01623 821332.
