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Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair

Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fairs (GNCCF) are nationally renowned as the leading selling events in the North of England, providing friendly opportunities to exhibit and sell to engaged and discerning audiences. Our fairs are highly regarded for their quality, with exhibitors selected by a panel of craft experts for their exceptional skills, innovative work, designs and presentation.

2025 sees us launch our brand new summer fair:

NEW !! Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair Newcastle: 20–22 June 2025 !! NEW

Taking place at Northumbria University’s city centre campus, this exciting new addition to the GNCCF portfolio offers makers an opportunity to showcase their work to a fresh audience in this vibrant culture-loving city.

Nice to see you!

OPEN CALL: FREE TO SUBMIT

Gerald Moore Gallery is pleased to invite submissions to this year’s Open Call Portrait PaintingNice to see you!

Nice to see you! aims to celebrate the very best in contemporary portraiture from artists based in London and the South East. This open call is for relevant pre-existing works by both self-taught and more established artists. Each artist can submit 1 artwork.

Selected works will be exhibited at the Gerald Moore Gallery from 6th March – 12th April 2025.

Entry requirements:
Open to all artists in London and the South East. Painting or painted artwork.

TEMPO

Artists from all the countries are welcome. If you'd like to participate, please send us an image of your artwork (all mediums) to be presented during the event.

A video of all the works will be projected during the event and kept as a permanent online display.

The exhibition kicks off at 5 PM. Please note that the venue is outdoors, so it's subject to weather conditions.

Participation and admission are free for you, your friends, and any guests you want to bring along.

The Hollow Hour

We invite artists to submit works that explore themes centred around the evolving relationship between the human body, technology, and art. The exhibition aims to immerse viewers in a multi-sensory experience that explores the boundaries of art and the body, encouraging radical exploration of a speculative future where the human form is redefined by technology. 

Thematic Exploration 

We are seeking works that push the limits of imagination and speculate humanity’s future. Themes might include: 

VAA International Exhibition & Scholarship Prize

The Visual Artists Association has introduced an exhibition and scholarship worth £20,000. Created to support emerging artists to develop their arts businesses, The VAA International Exhibition & Scholarship Prize, launched in Summer 2022, aims to benefit emerging and re-emerging artists. This will be achieved by increasing artists’ international exposure, whilst raising funds for VAA artist education programmes.

OPEN CALL 'ESSENTIAL STRUCTURE' MINIMALISM EXHIBITION

Gerald Moore Gallery is pleased to invite submissions to this year’s Open Call Essential Structure.

With artwork devod of pictorial and decorative content and stripped of external references, Minimalism was one of the most important and influential movements of the late Modernist era of the 1960s and early 70s. Its features included an emphasis on pure abstract form, specific materials, and precise, clean presentation. Its impact can still be seen, not just in the artworld, but also in design, architectur, literatur, and music.

The exhibition Essential Structure aims to survey the spirit of Minimalism in the work of artists today, and examine how its principals continue to inspire creativity in a variety of media.  

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