Open to all artists (professional and amateur) in the Eastern Cape (they must reside in the province).

The entry fee for the exhibition will include your membership to EPSAC/ArtEC for the year. As well as affiliation with SANAVA.

There will be three cash prizes for the best three artworks. As well as several other special prizes to be awarded.

The exhibition will take place at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum and the works will hang for two months.

This exhibition is not a curated show. As such, all entered work will be hung.

This is an uncurated show: All work submitted will be shown. (T&C’s applicable). A reminder that exhibition titles are open to the artistic interpretation of the artist making the work; both stylistically and in concept. Some of you may not be landscape artists: we invite you to interpret, misinterpret, abstract the theme, communicate and exaggerate.

In the unlikely event of receiving more work than the venue can hold, there will be a selection process, in which preference will be given to works that take up the theme with a marked intention and an interesting take on the local city/landscapes.

Unframed 2D work will be exhibited–No funding for framing or special requests for displaying work. New media; Artists to supply their own IT.

Size: No works, or section of the work, may be bigger than a standard single door inner frame.

How many works per artist: Three.

Note: Artists are responsible for the delivery and collection of their artwork to and from the Art Museum. There is no funding for framing artworks or for special requests for displaying works. Works must be complete and ready to hang or to be installed
when delivered.

All submissions must be accompanied by a completed entry form:

Theme: The Eastern Cape has a proud tradition of excellent landscape painting and NMM Art Museum houses an interesting collection of works that depicts the regional; street, city and landscapes, and the people who walk those landscapes – lets carry on with the comment, the out-cry, the praise, the beauty. Remember a theme is always open to interpretation.

To support and enhance the value of regionalism in the National cultural arena, the theme of this year’s Annual is the local landscape.

We look forward to an exciting and varied response from our local art community.

Important: Works must have been made in the last 24 months.

Exhibition duration: 15 June – 17 August 2024

Venue: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum – 1 Park Drive

Submission dates: 30 and 31 May [Thursday and Friday] 9.00am – 1.30pm.

Who: All Eastern Cape artists may participate, 18 years and older.

Entry fee: R100.00 per artist cash includes 2024 Membership Fee

Opening Event: 15 June Saturday 10.30am – 12.30pm

Sales: will be handled by EPSAC/Artec Board Members.

Prize money:

• 1 x R5000 cash for Best on Show
• 1 x R3000 cash for 1st runner-up Best on Show
• 1 x R2000 for 2nd runner-up Best on Show
• Best Up and Coming Artist (under 25) – R2000 art shop voucher
• Best Veteran (over 60) – R2000 art shop voucher
• Best entry by a Self-taught Artist – R1000 art shop voucher
• GK Boulter Award: R3000
• Mary-Rose Dold Award for Best Printed Artwork – R 1000.00 cash (digital archive included)
• Public Choice Award (to be announced at the end of the show, by votes cast in a box at Reception) – R2000 art shop voucher
• There will also be a prize awarded by the Alliance Française of Port Elizabeth to 2 artists of a joint exhibition to be hosted at the Alliance in March 2025