Both professional and amateur artists at all stages in their careers who are resident in Scotland may enter. To support the selection panel and inform our visitors about you, artists will be asked to enter their work in one of two categories: professional or amateur. Entrants cannot enter their work in both categories. All work will be curated and displayed together.

All visual disciplines are welcome including art, design, and craft. We are looking for, original and exciting work in any visual medium. We would love to see your paintings, sculptures, jewellery, ceramics, textiles, illustrations, photography, film, anything! Please surprise us with your work.

Entrants may submit up to two (2) pieces of work. A £10.00 (non-refundable) entry fee per piece applies and there are no hanging fees.

Reproduction or commercial prints will not be accepted for exhibition in the Winter Show. Giclee prints will only be accepted for photographic and original digital artwork entries. If your work is selected for final exhibition, then you will be invited to submit up to two unframed prints for the print bin.

Please note that previous Meffan Winter Show entries will not be selected.

Any electrical equipment supplied for exhibition must be accompanied by a current PAT certificate.

Wall mounted works must be framed and must be suitable for screws and fixings to be attached. Please note that MDF frames are difficult to attach fixings to as it often disintegrates. Solid wood is preferable if possible.

Unframed stretched canvasses or paintings on board are acceptable provided they are suitable for screws and fixings to be attached.

Due to health and safety clip frames will not be accepted.

If you intend to submit large scale pieces, installations or artworks which may have health and safety implications (e.g. heavy, large or cumbersome objects, flashing/strobe lights, floor mounted sculpture) for consideration, please contact the Meffan Museum at forfarmuseum@angusalive.scot prior to submission.

Please submit your work digitally between Friday 30 August 2024 and Friday 27 September 2024, 5pm, please follow this link to apply: https://angusalive.scot/museums-galleries/visual-arts/meffan-winter-show/

All further information can be found at https://angusalive.scot/museums-galleries/visual-arts/meffan-winter-show/. A £10 entry fee per artwork applies and there is no hanging fee.

Please check that all images are sharp and as true as possible to your artwork. For further guidance on photography and images see our ‘How to Photograph your Artwork’ guide which you can find at https://www.angusalive.scot/museums-galleries/visual-arts/meffan-winter-show/  Photos should be JPEGs with a maximum file size of 4MB, at least 72 dpi, and at least 1000px along the longest edge.

Save your image files with your name and the title of your artwork as the file name, e.g., JoeBloggs_Untitled1.jpg.

Please ensure all artwork details are correct. Information submitted at this stage, e.g., titles and prices, will be used for labels and online information. ANGUSalive cannot be held responsible for any errors in labels and online information due to artist’s errors in the entry process.

Once you have submitted your work digitally it will go to our selection panel. You will receive an email on Monday 2 October 2024 telling you whether or not your work has been preselected

If your work does not pass pre-selection, please don’t let it put you off and please feel free to enter next year’s Meffan Winter Show. You are also more than welcome to come to the ANGUSalive Meffan Winter Show Preview Friday 8 November 20234 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Please RSVP if you wish to attend forfarmuseum@angusalive.scot

All works that are pre-selected online are subject to final selection by the panel who assess your work in the gallery.

If your work is selected, you will be invited by email to bring your work to the Meffan Museum & Art Gallery for final selection. The email will contain details of how to prepare and bring your work for the exhibition. If you don’t receive your email, please check your junk or spam folder.

You can hand in your work on our Receiving days.

Receiving days

Thursday 24 October 2024                         11.00am – 3.00pm

Friday 25 October 2024                              11.00am – 3.00pm

Saturday 26 October 2024                         11.00am – 3.00pm

Sunday 27 October 2024                            11.00am – 3.00pm

Please note that we are unable to accept works out with these times.

When you submit your work, you must take your packaging away with you as we don’t have storage for packaging.

Delivering work by Courier

You may arrange for a courier or someone else to deliver your work, but they must arrive on the receiving days and within the times specified. Please ensure that your courier or nominated person knows how to unpack your work.

You must ensure your labels are securely attached to your work and that your courier or nominated person will take the packaging away.

You may prefer to contact ANGUSalive’s Meffan Museum & Art Gallery team prior to sending artworks by courier.

Please note that we are unable to accept entries by post.

Works will be insured whilst in our care for the full price. Whilst every endeavour is taken for the care of all entries, we cannot be held responsible for any marks or abrasions on frames. Insurance claims will only be made against any damage deemed significant.

Please note that it will be assumed that artists give their consent for ANGUSalive to photograph entered artworks for their publicity, including and not limited to our catalogue, website, social media and press releases.

We will inform you if your work has been selected for the Meffan Winter Show on Friday 1 November 2024, artists will receive an email acknowledgement. If you don’t receive your acknowledgment, please check your email junk or spam folder.

We will hang work in a way that we think will showcase your work in the best possible way. We may be unable to fulfil any conditions suggested by artists on how they would like their work displayed.

At the end of the exhibition, works should be collected between Friday 10 – Monday 13 January 2025 opening hours 10.30-4pm

ANGUSalive cannot store work due to space restrictions. Unless prior arrangement has been made, any items which remain unclaimed by 4.00pm on Monday 13 January 2025 will become the property of ANGUSalive and may be disposed or recycled.

Please don’t despair if your artwork hasn’t made the final selection. There are a number of reasons why artwork isn’t selected. Sometimes work isn’t selected because it doesn’t suit a visual art exhibition, e.g., if the piece has text heavy elements, or because it is too large or heavy to exhibit in an open exhibition.

Unfortunately, we cannot give individual feedback, but we do encourage artists to come back and enter our Meffan Winter Show again the following year and attend our Winter Show Preview.

You can collect non-selected artwork 9 – 11 November 2024 during opening hours 10.30-4pm. Please note that you are unable to collect non-selected work during the Meffan Winter Show Preview.

Whether your work has been selected or not, you are very welcome to the Meffan Winter Show Preview, and we hope that you will come along to enjoy. Please RSVP if you wish to attend forfarmuseum@angusalive.scot

ANGUSalive Purchase Prize is up to the value of £1,500.

All artists are eligible for our purchase prizes.

The Visitor’s Choice Award is a £200 prize and decided by public vote.

Works valued at over £1,500 will not be eligible for the ANGUSalive purchase prize. Works over these values can still be submitted for the Show.

The winner/s of each prize will be selected by a judging panel appointed by ANGUSalive and the decision of the judges is final.

Winners of the purchase prizes will be announced at the Preview.

The winner/s of purchase prizes will receive the catalogue value of their work up to the value of the prize less commission. The work will then become the property of the Angus Council’s Art Collection. Copyright remains with the artist.

The Visitor’s Choice Award will be decided by a public vote and the winner will receive a £200 prize. Details will be posted on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ANGUSaliveMuseums/

Winners will also receive one of our coveted Quaichs for the ANGUSalive purchase prize. These little wooden quaichs are handcrafted in Forfar Academy by the students themselves. We are proud to help promote local crafts.

We will host a celebratory preview night on Friday 8 November 2024 6.30pm to 8.30pm.

All entrants, selectors, sponsors and representatives of the media are invited, and the purchase prize winners will be announced.

Invitations will also be sent via email to our Museums Galleries Archives newsletter subscribers.

Please RSVP if you wish to attend forfarmuseum@angusalive.scot

This preview night is a public event and photographs may be taken at this event for publicity, press or archival purposes for or on behalf of ANGUSalive. It’s absolutely ok if you do not wish yourself or a member of your family to be photographed. On the night, please let a member of staff know and remove yourself from areas where photographs are being taken.

All works must be available for purchase and will be subject to 40% commission including VAT.

Please note that the price shown on the work is the price paid by the purchaser and should include commission.

Should the artist, or their representative, wish to exclude or remove from sale any work originally available for purchase once the exhibition has commenced, the current commission rate will be charged to the artist by ANGUSalive on the listed catalogue price of the work. The start of the Meffan Winter Show Preview is the commencement of the exhibition.

Payments to artists will be made by BACS payment, payment directly into a bank or building society account, for which bank details will be requested. Bank details will only be used for this purpose and will not be retained.

Artwork purchased as a Christmas Gift

People like to buy artwork as Christmas presents and our Meffan Winter Show is a popular exhibition for purchases. To help gift givers, we permit that any artworks purchased as a Christmas gift may be collected from the ANGUSalive Meffan Museum & Art Gallery from Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 December 2024.

By submitting an entry to the Winter Show, you are deemed to accept and agree to the following:

• The decision of the selection panel is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• You understand that ANGUSalive reserves the right to make such changes to the exhibition arrangements and these Terms & Conditions as may be deemed necessary by circumstances.
• You authorise ANGUSalive to process, store, and utilise the data in your submission and agree that, if selected for the exhibition, images of your work can be freely used by ANGUSalive for promotional and publicity purposes.
• All information provided by you is true and accurate and that the work submitted is wholly of your own creation.

ANGUSalive collects and uses your personal data in accordance with GDPR to manage your artwork in our ANGUSalive gallery and to pay you if you make a sale or hold a programmed event for which payment is agreed.

We hold your personal data in digital format in a secure folder accessible only to the relevant Museums Galleries & Archives team. We will retain your personal data for three (3) years. Records of sales and payments will be held for six (6) years.

We will share your contact telephone number and email address with the ANGUSalive staff based in the gallery where you are exhibiting your work, so that they can contact you in case of urgent need. This record will be destroyed at the close of the Meffan Winter Exhibition.

We will not pass your personal data to gallery visitors, external organisations or any third party.