After the success of last year's, 'The Stolen Orange' exhibition, the team at Bond Street Gallery Brighton are now opening submissions for a new curated group show: 'The Warp and the Weft'

'The Warp and the Weft'

'The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from  'Society and Solitude' (1870)

This time it's a Sussex based Open Call.  

Submissions will be open 01-07-26.

Please spread the word and share with anyone you think might be interested. 💚

This will be a fee-paying opportunity to cover the costs of admin. 

£5 per submission regardless of the size of the submitted work.  Up to three submissions per artist.

There will be an additional minimal hanging fee of £30 for the selected artists.

This will cover the costs of staffing and organising a three-week exhibition, private views, insurance, website, socials and a professional full-colour catalogue.

All selected artists will receive a complimentary catalogue.

Commission on sales is 70 / 30 percent in favour of the artist.

We are looking for work which directly responds to the brief.  All media are welcome.  

Up to 40 artists will be selected for a three-week exhibition with extensive social/ local media coverage.

The Warp and the Weft invites artists and makers working in any discipline to consider the structures, relationships and processes that shape their creative practice.

This is not a textile exhibition.

Rather, it offers a framework for thinking about how work comes into being; the processes and decisions that shape its arrival.

This may include the relationship between what is constant and what is mutable, what is inherited and what is discovered, the planned and the spontaneous.

Any creative practice is shaped by a unique combination of influences, experiences, materials, habits, decisions and encounters.

It is formed through layers of personal history, cultural inheritance, relationships and place.

Some of these forces are visible, while others remain hidden, yet together they contribute to the fabric of a work and the journey of its making.

The theme invites reflection on the role of time within artistic practice.

Every artwork exists in relation to both past and future, carrying traces of memory, personal history, cultural inheritance or previous ways of working.

At the same time, it may point towards possibilities not yet realised.

A finished work therefore speaks of a moment of negotiation between what was and what may yet be; between memory and anticipation, nowness and then-ness.

Artists may choose to approach the theme through the relationship between structure and improvisation.

Within every practice there are elements of consistency and others that remain in flux.

Recurring concerns, materials, methods or influences might provide a framework, while experimentation, chance, intuition and risk introduce new directions.

The resulting work emerges through a dynamic exchange between stability and disruption, order and uncertainty.

Creative practice rarely exists in isolation.

Artists operate within networks of connection that may include people, places, communities, histories, materials and ideas.

These relationships shape not only the works we make, but the makers we become.

One way of approaching the theme is through a simple proposition: the warp is given; what we choose to do with the weft is up to us.

While the warp may be understood as memory, place, material, history, circumstance, identity or tradition, the weft becomes a space for experimentation, imagination, resistance, transformation or play.

Every artist will interpret these ideas differently, and there is no single way to respond.

Whether your practice is rooted in painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, poetry, installation, moving image or another discipline entirely, we invite you to consider what is given, and what you choose to do with it.

We look forward to seeing your submissions  X

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.