Dear Jo,

I was so pleased to have been able to discuss with your team the process for applying to exhibit in one of your two galleries. Your website was very helpful but it was good to visit to get a better idea of the space in the galleries. I also was able to clear up a few niggling issues which were not clear from the information provided in the section ‘For Hirers’

Following my visit I am interested in exhibiting some of my work in the Doris Wilson Gallery.  I work on paper and board using a variety of mediums including acrylic, collage, ink and charcoal. The works are medium to large scale between 60 x 40cm or 60 x 60cm and framed. My work is abstract and could best be described as geographical and geological in nature and reminiscent of stratas and layers of rocks.

I checked the size of the Doris Wilson Gallery visually on my recent visit in December last year and also double checked the scaled plan on your website. I calculated that I could show up to 10 pieces of work; 4 on the main wall, 2 works each on the side walls and 2 on the remaining wall adjacent to the doors. I have priced all my work between £250 and £500.

I am attaching a sample of the works that I have in mind for the exhibition. You said it would be a good idea if I also included a link to my website and this link has been added below.

I understand this is all the information you need for my submission to be reviewed by the selection panel. You explained that the decision to accept a submission was based on the need to show a wide variety of different art throughout the year. Therefore the information about the medium used in my works is so important and an idea of the theme of the work.

Thank you for all your help. I look forward to hearing in due course the decision of the selection panel.

Your sincerely

Deborah Jones

Things to do if application to exhibit is accepted.

I was able to discuss with Jo what would happen if my application was accepted and she explained that a contract would be sent out which included details about insurance. 

The staff would help with displaying my work and I confirmed that they would largely be framed and mounted boards. 

I would need to provide the gallery with a written profile or biography usually around 100 – 200 words with information about what inspires the work or themes, methods of working and influences. I have already prepared a biography which is on my website and it covers the work I would be planning to exhibit. 

It is up to the artist to produce any posters or flyers for the event and approval should be sought before going to print.

Profile

The 4 large collages were inspired by my childhood memories of holidays spent with my parent’s family around Aberdare in the Brecon Beacons in South Wales. My primary resource has been the family photographs and inspired the collaged figures to which I have layered other photographs digitally. The layers representing the landscape of the area, the coal mining and the geology have been applied on top using charcoal, ink and acrylic to represent rocks and landscape.

The five acrylic works on board are representations from photographs and maps of the landscape and geology of some of my favourite places to walk in South Wales, the South Downs and the Isle of Wight. I like to apply a base layer of layered and scrubbed acrylic to depict the geology and the landscape. I apply further layers on some sections of the work from maps using charcoal. 

My interest in land artists such as Richard Long, Chris Dury, Sean Sully,  Ian McKeever and Hamish Fulton have influenced the direction of my practice. I am equally influenced by the psychogeographical writers Esther Kinski, Iain Sinclair and Horatio Clare.