IMPACT ART FAIR - 20th, 21st, 22nd May - Candid Arts Trust, London

20th 21st 22nd May 2011 Candid Arts Trusts, London
Call for submissions:
The Impact Art Fair www.impact-art-fair.org.uk will open at the Candid Arts Trust, Islington, London on the 20th, 21st and 22nd of May, 2011. It will be the UK’s 1st national marginalised art fair with works only by socially excluded arts practitioners. Lacking not talent but opportunities, the Impact Art Fair will provide these artists and writers the chance to sell their work.
(Marginalised/socially excluded = those with mental health problems, physical and learning disabilities, homeless people, substance misusers, ex-offenders, and the long term unemployed).
Artists: If you are an artist and would like to enter your work for possible inclusion, please email: simonpowell@freeuk.com for submission guidelines. Deadline for images for selection process is March 1st 2011 so you’ll need the guidelines in good time before then.
Writers: A catalogue/anthology will be accompanying the event so that writers’ work can be showcased alongside the artwork – please submit a piece of prose (maximum 800 words) or poems (maximum 3 poems) on the theme of ‘Impact’ to info@creativefuture.org.uk by 28th February 2011.
Organisations: If you are an organisation that works with socially excluded artists and you would like to display your artists’ work, please contact Simon simonpowell@freeuk.com for submission guidelines.
Images by Pat Gregson, Malcolm Budgen, Jane Baxter, Russell Jones
20th 21st 22nd May 2011 Candid Arts Trusts, London
Background:
What is the Impact Art Fair?
The Impact Art Fair is envisaged as being an annual, high profile event, well advertised and attended by an estimated 2,500 visitors. Although similar if not equal in quality to mainstream fairs such as Affordable and Frieze, it will display works only by socially excluded arts practitioners. These will be mostly relatively unknown but could include more well known artists such as Alison Lapper (MBE).
Why do we need the Impact Art Fair?
Our experience is that there are hundreds of commercially viable works already in existence amongst socially excluded artists and writers. Most artists/writers remain unknown and unseen, not through lack of talent but through lack of opportunity. Since they produce work that is equal in quality to much found in mainstream markets why not a fair that specialises in this work? We see the Impact Art Fair powerfully integrating socially excluded people with mainstream society, markets and culture.
Please contact simonpowell@freeuk.com (07795 691 579) for further details.