OPEN 2025 is coming to Grundy, celebrating artists and makers who live and work on Blackpool and the Fylde coast. In line with Grundy’s founding principles of showing the ‘art of the day’ and echoing Blackpool’s motto of ‘progress’, we ask that for 2025, artworks submitted must have been created within the last 12 months and which have never been shown at Grundy Art Gallery before.
The exhibition aims to be illustrative of the diverse range of artwork being produced throughout Blackpool and the Fylde Coast. We will only begin selecting and rejecting submissions if we receive more than we can accommodate and / or if any work is considered unsafe or inappropriate by the selectors. If this process becomes necessary, it will be carried out by Grundy Art Gallery’s curatorial team, in consultation with colleagues in Blackpool Council’s Art Service.
OPEN 2025 is open to all residents living, working and studying in the Fylde Coast area over the age of 16 years and with an FY1-8 postcode. If you live a little bit beyond the area’s boundaries, you may be also eligible to take part too; some PR3 and PR4 postcodes are eligible so please check with the gallery.
Please note: we are not able to offer works, produced by artists under the age of 18 for sale as part of OPEN2025. Artworks presented by artists under the age of 18 will be listed as Not For Sale (NFS) during the exhibition.
OPEN 2025 FREE to enter. There will still be a limit of one artwork per person.
Completed application forms must be submitted via e-mail (preferred) at grundyartgallery@blackpool.gov.uk with the subject line OPEN2025, or in person at Grundy Art Gallery before 4pm on 14th December 2024. Applications received after this date will not be eligible.
If you do not have reliable computer and/or Internet access and/or are intending to return, your application form ‘in person’ and find that the gallery door is closed please post your completed application for through the door.
Due to limited space, earlier applications will be given priority.
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW LIVE. DEADLINE: SATURDAY 14 DECEMBER 2024, 4.45PM
APPLICATION FORMS
OPEN 2025 APPLICATION FORM_ARTIST TO COMPLETE (WORD)