a-n Magazine 2010 November - Page 2 of 2 - a-n The Artists Information Company

As an artist who has entered open submissions and as a manager of an artist-led, not for profit gallery space (Core Gallery, Deptford) which held its first open submission this year, I feel I can give a slightly different insight into this subject than those laid out in the last two issues of a-n, as to what your open submission fees actually go towards (a-n Magazine, September and October 2010).

Stephen Black suggests that many of the major ‘open submission’ art events are less than democratic in their selection, and therefore a disproportionate number of artists are wasting their money by entering (a-n Magazine, September 2010).

Have just picked up on the Liberate the Tate Debate (a-n Magazine, September and October 2010) and will begin by emphatically stating that I am no apologist for the Oil Industry.