Homeworks: Open Call for Spilt Milk Members Show 2020
Home-works: Spilt Milk Members Show 2020
Online exhibition September 12th – October 11th
Exhibition and zine launch September 11th
Home-works
“Stay at home to beat the virus”. “Work from home if you can”. “All children must now be home schooled”. “Staying home, works!” These are the messages which have echoed through 2020 and seen a collective return to the home. Yet in a new world order that has legitimised working from home, mothering work still feels neglected, invisible and undervalued. What new found joys or additional weight does our domestic space hold? When our physical worlds shrink in size, how do we continue to dream big? What reflections have shone through our social bubbles? 2020 has not only seen a return to the home but an urgent return to the streets. Voices cry out through our phones, they march along our streets, and they are taped to our windows and doorways. As artist mothers return to our kitchen tables, mothers voices have never been more urgent.
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” – Toni Morrison.
Online Exhibition
This year, the Spilt Milk Members Show will take place online in a non-juried format giving all members of Spilt Milk the opportunity to have work exhibited. We are accepting members’ submissions of work produced during 2020 in any medium with good quality documentation. We are keen to see the work you have made in response to this turbulent year and therefore will accept work that may still be in progress or part of a larger, developing body of work. One work from each artist will be exhibited (you can send up to 3 works for consideration).
Home-works Zine
To coincide with the online members’ show, we will be curating and launching the Home-works Zine. Around 20 artists will be selected to have work featured in the Home-works Zine. Images, writing and poetry can be submitted. Images must be 300dpi and at least 1800 pixels on the shortest side of the image to be considered. Please email writing submissions as word documents along with your application form. Selected artists will receive one free copy.
Online Artist Talks
As part of the members exhibition we will be selecting 4-5 artists to present an online talk about their work. Selected artists will be paid a fee of £75 for their time. Full details and schedule tbc.
Submission Process:
Please email the following to homeworksresidency@gmail.com by August 5th.
Completed application form.
Images of up to 3 works in any medium. Images must be 300dpi and at least 1800 pixels on the shortest side of the image to be considered for the zine. Please save images with your full name, and the title of work.
For moving image works please include one still image and a link to the artwork on vimeo/youtube.
Submit writing/poetry as word documents or filmed as spoken word with links to vimeo/youtube as above.
If you are not yet a member you can sign up here. If you are experiencing financial difficulty please get in touch with us to request a fee waiver - we understand this has been a difficult year and don’t want finances to prevent artists from working with us.
Please get in touch if you have any questions about the application process or membership.