Annual Wexford Lion’s Club Exhibition 2025
The deadline for submission of completed works is 4pm on Tuesday 17th December 2024.
We are delighted to announce that submissions for our Annual Open Submission Exhibition in association with Wexford Lions Club are now open and canvases and boards are now available to purchase at Wexford Arts Centre Box Office. We invite submissions from local artists and anyone with an interest in art regardless of their level of skill or previous experience.
The Annual Wexford Lions Club Exhibition celebrates local talent and offers a platform for artists who are at various stages of their careers as well as those with an interest in art who wish to see their work realised within a gallery context. For this reason, it is an important show within the Wexford Arts Centre’s visual art programme. The exhibition will be on view in the lower and upper galleries of Wexford Arts Centre from Saturday 11th January 2025 with the celebration and award ceremony scheduled for 2pm.
As a result of the tremendous success of previous years exhibitions and the remarkably high-quality work received, the theme for the 2025 Lions Club exhibition has again been left open. The open brief allows participants the freedom to create exciting and original artwork, and to tell their own stories. These stories or experiences can be related through a varied range of subjects such as urban and rural narratives, abstraction and even pure imagination.
Also, this year we will again feature the Young Lions gallery, dedicated exclusively to the work of young, budding artists. Young artists are encouraged to experiment with all types of mediums and objects – paints, glitter, buttons, transfers; Lego…the list is endless.
Wexford Lions Club has served the community of Wexford since 1979. This support may be monetary such as food vouchers at Christmas for families and individuals in need, or by giving their time to assist community projects such as The Trabolgan Holiday and The Message in a Bottle and the Carer’s Weekend Project.
Interested persons are asked to visit Wexford Arts Centre where canvases and watercolour boards are available to purchase.
Please note that you must purchase your canvas or watercolour board at Box Office at Wexford Arts Centre to secure your submission. Applications are limited to one per person and as the number of artists participating in the exhibition is limited, applications will be processed on a first come, first served basis. Exhibitors must complete a submission form which will be issued upon receipt of purchase.
The deadline for submission of completed works is 4pm on Tuesday 17th December 2024 and the exhibition entry fee is €12.00 per applicant. All artworks must be submitted unframed on or before this date and on the board/canvas provided by the Arts Centre. Please note that we cannot accept any other canvas type.
Due to the limited exhibition spaces, we will not present sculptural works in the exhibition. We wish to thank all those who submitted sculptural works in the past.
Wexford Arts Centre and Wexford Lions Club would like to thank Spectrum Art & Framing, Wexford County Council and Light & Shadow Wexford for their ongoing and generous support of this exhibition.
Image Credits:
Top Left: Jane Prendergast, Brioscain Phratai
Top Right: Holly Doyle, Microverse
Bottom Left: Gale Daly, Bron An Domhain
Bottom Right: Mark Zanker, Storm Over Wexford
For further information on the exhibition please contact catherine@wexfordartscentre.ie or jackie@wexfordartscentre.ie
