Friends of Mercer Art Gallery is calling for artists and creatives to get involved in its online exhibitions focusing on climate change.
This year’s React 2 exhibition is titled ‘Our Planet, Our Home’ and encourages artists to use any medium and have fun.
Last year’s exhibition was centred around coronavirus and had more than 100 applications. The organisers are determined to have another successful exhibition.
The exhibition will go live in October and artwork can be submitted under these categories: our natural world, climate change and creations using recycled materials.
There is no fee for submission, but the charity asks that the artist makes a donation to support its outreach work supporting art locally.
Last year, creative people aged up to 70 took part in the exhibition.
Catherine Wright, deputy chair of the Friends of the Mercer Project, said:
“Following on from the success of our first online exhibition, we encourage all artists in our local community, amateur and professional, to get involved with this event.
“The subject ‘Our Planet, Our Home’ is such an important and relevant theme and we hope there will be some really thought provoking pieces submitted.
“There were some extremely high-calibre pieces in our last exhibition and we hope the standard will be high again but it is important to us, the Friends of the Mercer that this exhibition is for open to all. If you are artistic we urge you to get creative and get involved!”
There are additional categories for any budding artists under 16. More information on how to enter can be found here.
The submission deadline is September 17 at 5pm.
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