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I get questioned regularly about the role of food in this art blog.  I understand your confusion.  I know all artists are not foodies. I know you aren’t all going to run out and order roasted bone marrow for dinner.  Food commentary is my distracted motivation.  It helps me take a fresh approach everyday.  So, try to learn from and enjoy the food references, but make sure to stay motivated enough to enter this next GREAT show in London!

Check out this Call for Entries for the Cork Street Open Exhibition held at both the Gallery at Cork Street and Gallery 27 in London.  Enter almost any media online for as little as £20 (~$33 USD) for your shot at this London show by June 12th!  Don’t miss out…

CALL for ENTRIES: Cork Street Open Exhibition

ELIGIBILITY:  Any artist living anywhere in the world may enter.  All work must be original, conceived and executed solely by the artist (with the exception of casts or other foundry production), and completed since January 2010.

MEDIA:  All media except reproductions, film and video are eligible for exhibition. Work cannot exceed 60in (152cm) in any direction (inclusive of packing if coming from abroad) or 75 lbs. in weight.  There will be no provision for work requiring special installation.

DEADLINE:  June 12, 2011

ENTRY FEE:  £20 (approx. $33 USD) for the first submission, and £12 (approx. $20 USD) for each additional entry, £18 (approx. $30 USD) for the first young artist (under 22 years) submission, and £8 (approx. $13 USD) for each additional entry.

JUROR:  Stuart Semple is a British painter who has achieved widespread critical acclaim as a provocative image-maker, social commentator and visual spokesperson. His worldwide blockbuster exhibition schedule humbly grew from sales of his drawings for just a couple of pounds on eBay. Quickly his following expanded furiously and by the age of just 21 he had sold over 3000 works and held his first sell-out solo exhibition in London. He now exhibits worldwide, curates for leading institutions and writes for national publications, including a column for Art Of England. His canvases are preserved in the Getty, Langen, David Roberts and Niarchos foundations.

Giles Baker-Smith has been working at the heart of the London art world continuously for 25 years, specializing in nineteenth and twentieth century British and European painting, and contemporary art.

Martin Newman is the art critic and assistant news editor at the Daily Mirror. He graduated from Sydney University with a degree in literature and fine arts in 1991 and has worked as a journalist for almost 20 years and an art reviewer for the past dozen. He professes to liking all forms of art from classical realism to snow sculptures and video installations, and believes that art = beauty.

Laura Noble is a London based Artist, Writer and Director of Diemar/Noble Photography, a new Commercial Gallery in the heart of London’s West End.  She lectures regularly and is the author of ‘The Art of Collecting Photography’ and primary essays in the following monographs: ‘Crazy God’ by Yvonne De Rosa, ‘Chrysalis’ & ‘Circus’ by Anderson & Low, ‘London’ by Lluis Real. She also contributes to magazines including: Eyemazing, Snoecks, LIP, Photoicon, Image, Next Level, Foam & Leisure Center and is Editor at Large for Photoicon Magazine.

Louis Singh says, “St Ives in the 1970s was a somewhat lazier place than today.  Late morning deals were customarily made with cigarette in one hand and glass of sherry in the other.  Back then my father had the Wills Lane gallery which ensured my mind was constantly flooded with images of the St Ives School as soon as my eyes had opened.  When I was ten my parents opened the Beaux Arts gallery in Bath which continued to nurture these Cornish roots.  These days with a sister gallery in London, minus the sherry, not much has changed.  I busy myself by keeping the gallery from growing old by steering some youth and raw contemporary talent, towards its doors.”

AWARDS:  More than £6,000 in Cash Awards and Prizes.  Grand Prize £2,500 (approx. $4125 USD); Runner Up Prize £1,000 (approx. $1650 USD); Visitor’s Choice Award £750; Young Artist Prize £750; Cash Prize winners will also be featured in a second group exhibition of work at the Gallery in Cork Street in January 2012.

£300 Diemar/Noble Photogoraphy Prize – Selected by gallery director, Laura Noble this prize winner will receive a portfolio review from one of the gallery’s directors and will be invited to participate in the Diemar/Noble Photography Gallery’s seminar: Collecting Photography & The Photography Market

£150 Derwent Drawing Prize – A superb set of 120 assorted colour Derwent Artists’ Pencils in a beautifully crafted light mahogany finish wooden presentation box

£1,360 Your Art Image Prizes:

• 2 – Success is NOT an Accident – Home Study Programme worth £95 each
• 2 – Success is NOT an Accident – Interactive Online Courses worth £195 each
• An Intermediate Art Business Consultation worth £295
• An 8-week Art Business Coaching Sessions worth £485



SALES: All works must be for sale at the exhibition, prices set by the artist, and Cork Street Open Exhibition will retain 40% of the selling price half of which will be passed onto the selected charity. All sales of exhibited work must be undertaken by Cork Street Open Exhibition during the exhibition period. Payment of all prizes and for work sold during the exhibition will be issued to Artists less the 40% commission no later than Monday, 5 September 2011.

For complete details, visit the Cork Street website!