INAUGURAL EXHIBITION, NORTH WALES ARTS FESTIVAL The Wythnos Gelf Llanfairfechan Art Week exhibition is part of a major new arts festival in North Wales taking place this August. The week will be a celebrations of all creative arts. The exhibition is open to artists living or working in North Wales. We welcome all 2d works. The arts week will run from August 8 to August 16. The exhibition will be on the final week of the festival and will take place alongside an affordable art fair, and demonstrations of portrait painting and of linocut printing by eminent North Wales artists.

The exhibition will take place across the final weekend (August 15-16) of Wythnos Gelf Llanfairfechan Art Week, a week celebrating all the creative arts, including visual arts, literature, music, dance, film, photography, and crafts.  

It will be held at the Llanfairfechan Community Centre, the main hub for the week's activities, which will include workshops, demonstrations, performances, talks, an art trail, and an "open to all comers" al fresco painting day.  

Other events are being staged at the library and at venues around the town.

Entries for the exhibition are invited from any artist living or working in North Wales, 

Wythnos Gelf Llanfairfechan Art Week is generating considerable interest across the region.  It is being widely publicised and, as we approach the week, this will intensify.  

We are expecting considerable interest from residents and tourists with a wide range of events to attract people to this beautiful coastal town throughout the week, and especially for the final weekend and the exhibition.  

On this final weekend, an affordable art fair will attract art lovers and will be staged alongside the exhibition, giving artists a chance to engage directly with the public and to offer other work for sale.

On Saturday, two eminent North Wales artists, both past presidents of the Royal Cambrian Academy, will be sharing their expertise in the hall:

• Jeremy Yates, RCA, (https://rcaconwy.org/members/jeremy-yates-vprca) will be giving a demonstration of portrait painting, giving the public a chance to observe and ask questions.  
• Ann Lewis RCA (https://rcaconwy.org/members/ann-lewis)  will be demonstrating linocutting and giving members of the public the chance to "pull a print" themselves from a linocut that she has created especially for the event.

This is the first time that we have staged this bilingual event, and it is already being described as a mini Eisteddfod.  

If it is the success that we have every reason to believe that it will be, it will become an annual event that will grow and grow, giving artists in the region an opportunity to show their work to the growing number of tourists visiting the area.

Llanfairfechan is a beautiful seaside town that extends up into the Carneddau mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia).  

The organisers of the week are the town clerk, who has extensive experience in organising public events, and a former journalist and art historian, now a practising artist.

THE WORK

Artists are invited to submit up to three 2d works in any media e.g. painting, drawing, printing, collage, etc. and any genre e.g. landscape, portrait, figurative, abstract, still life, etc.  

There is no theme to the exhibition other than as a showcase for the art being produced in North Wales.  

Submissions will be subject to a selection panel.  Details to be announced.  

FEES

There will be a submission fee of £10 for each work.  Works do not have to be for sale, but it is encouraged. For works sold during the exhibition, a commission of 10% of the sale price will be payable, and this should be accounted for in the sale price.   

DEADLINE

The deadline for submissions is Friday, June 12.  If you are successful you will be notified in mid to late July.

DELIVERY AND COLLECTION

Works selected for the exhibition will have to be delivered to Llanfairfechan Community Centre on the weekend of August 8-9 by appointment between 11.00 and 16.00 or by special arrangement.  

Works not sold will be available for collection at the end of the exhibition or, by appointment, on the weekend of August 22 (11.00 - 13.00) and August 23 (13.00-16.00) or by special arrangement.  

Delivery and collection is the responsibility of the artist.  Where works are not collected within the prescribed time frame, they will incur a collection fee.

Works should be delivered unwrapped and will be returned unwrapped.

FRAMING AND SIZE

All works must be framed in sturdy but simple frames and be ready for hanging e.g. with proper fixings and cord.  

Works must be within the maximum size limit of 900 x 900 mm.  

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Where all due care and attention will be given to handling artists' work, unavoidable damage may occur.  

Wythnos Gelf Llanfairfechan Art Week will have no liability for loss, damage, or destruction.  

Artists are advised to insure their artworks for their market value with a reputable insurance company.

COPYRIGHT

All artists, by entering, confirm that they hold the intellectual property rights for the submitted work and have written approval for the use of any third party copyrighted material contained within the work.

After submitting your first artwork, you will then be directed to make a payment. Select the amount for the number of submissions you would like to make.

If this is more than one, you will then be able to make further submissions by submitting additional forms up to the number of artworks you have paid for.