JANUARY OPEN CALL EXHIBITION | BEGINNINGS

JANUARY OPEN CALL | BEGINNINGS

12 JANUARY – 13 FEBRUARY

As a new year unfolds, Beginnings invites artists to explore the moments, ideas and experiences from which something new emerges: a first step, a change in direction, a quiet realisation or the possibility of starting again.

Beginnings can be hopeful and exciting, uncertain and fragile, or full of unexpected potential. They might be found in the first light of day, a seed beneath the soil, a journey into unfamiliar territory or the first marks on a blank surface. Work might consider new life, changing landscapes, personal milestones, creative discovery, new relationships or the spaces between an ending and whatever comes next.

The theme may also be interpreted symbolically through ideas of possibility, renewal, growth, transformation, courage and change. Where does a beginning take shape? What do we leave behind, and what might we carry forward? Can something begin again?

Whether expressed through landscape, portraiture, abstraction, photography, sculpture, ceramics or installation, we welcome contemporary interpretations that explore the visual, emotional and imaginative possibilities of Beginnings.

Theme Keywords

Beginning · Possibility · First Light · New Life · Growth · Emergence · Change · Renewal · Discovery · Journey · Threshold · Transition · Courage · Hope · Becoming · Transformation · Rebirth · Imagination · Connection · New Perspectives · Starting Again

Key Dates

Submission deadline: Monday 4 January midnight
Successful applicants notified: Thursday 5 January 
Artwork hand-in: Sunday 10 January 1-4pm
Exhibition: 12 January – 13 February
Private View: Saturday 16 January 6.30-8.30pm
Artwork collection: Sunday 14 February 11am-1pm