Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show 2024 – Art for a Great Cause
2024 KEY DATES
The dates for the 2024 show will be Friday 29th November to Sunday 1st December (live), and Saturday 30thth November to Sunday 8th December (online). Here are some other dates you may wish to save in your diary.
| Date | Activity |
| 9thSeptember | Deadline for artwork submission |
| 31stOctober | Confirmation of artwork selected for the show |
| Live and Online Show | |
| 28rdNovember | Artwork Drop-off |
| 29thNovember | Preview Evening |
| 30thNovember & 1stDecember | Live & Online Art Show |
| 2ndDecember | Unsold Artwork Collection, Online Show continues |
| 8thDecember | Online Show Closes |
DETAILS FOR SUBMITTING WORK
We invite you to submit up to three works to the Art Show. You may choose whether this is in the live show or the online show, or both! We will confirm by the end of October at the latest which piece(s) we would like to include.
To submit work, please complete the submission form at https://forms.macmillanartshow.org.uk/open-call
LIVE SHOW
To submit for the art show you must be able to deliver your work to the venue on Thursday 28thNovember and collect from the venue on Monday 2nd December if your work has not sold.
ONLINE SALES
We will handle all sales on our website as in the previous three years at macmillanartshow.square.site and will notify artists when their artwork is sold. Artists are responsible for the postage and packaging of work and sending to the buyer within seven days of the purchase, and should allow for the cost when pricing their artwork.
DEADLINE
Please submit the form above by midnight at the end of Monday 9thSeptember 2024. We will be unable to consider any submissions received after this date due to the number of exhibiting artists and to ensure smooth administration.
We will send reminders to invited artists in the run-up to the deadline, so if you are unable to participate this year, please just let us know. If you do not wish to be invited to future Shows, please tell us.
TYPE OF ARTWORK
For the live show, we will only consider:
- 2D artworks (due to limited space)
- Artwork that is ready to hang
Based on previous art show sales experience, we are especially interested in the following:
- Artworks up to 100 cm x 100 cm in size
- Values of between £50 and £800
As in previous years, we will also have a Print Rack for unframed prints. You may submit both ready-to-hang works and prints for both the live and the online shows.
DONATION TO MACMILLAN
Each artist is asked to make a minimum donation of 50% of the sale price when the work sells. Some artists choose to donate up to 100% of the value, which we greatly appreciate. Even though our fundraising has reduced, Macmillan Cancer Support has continued to support people living with cancer throughout the pandemic. ALL the proceeds from the online sale help Macmillan Cancer Support, so we would take this opportunity to ask you to please consider whether you can donate more than 50%. Based on artist feedback Macmillan Cancer Support will be able to make BACS payments to improve the payment turnaround time. Payment by cheque will still be an option if you prefer.
PROMOTION
We would appreciate any help you can give to promote the Show via your own websites and social media. Our website is currently being updated for this year’s Show, but links to our social media are below.
Twitter: @MacArtShow
Facebook: @macartshow
Instagram: @edinmacmillanartshow
For more than one hundred years, Macmillan Cancer Support has helped countless people living with cancer. The Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show Committee is very grateful for the support from you, the artists – quite simply without you we cannot have a successful Art Show.
If you have any questions please contact us at artists@macmillanartshow.org.uk