The Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) is dedicated to championing international friendship and understanding throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. A not-for-profit private members’ club, the ROSL have been bringing like-minded people together since its launch in 1910.

ROSL is a self-funded organisation which operates under a Royal Charter and aims at promoting an enduring multi-racial fellowship pledged to the support of the Commonwealth and to the service of others and humanity at large.

The Brief

Royal Over-Seas League wishes to invite international members of the Royal Society of Sculptors to participate in Spaceshifting, a group exhibition of artworks to be displayed at Over-Seas House, London from 10th July - 14th September 2025.

The theme of Spaceshifting asks applicants to think about how works can move and metamorphose through space, across borders.

Playing with dimensions, space, and material, the proposal seeks to challenge how an artwork can shift through space and time, physically changing from its inception to its display.

We encourage applicants to think outside the box about how their work can simultaneously fit within postage packaging yet also claim space in our large building.

This can range from assemblages and ‘flatpack’ sculpture to video work, 3D printing and far beyond.

Be as experimental or ambitious as you wish!

The theme is left to be conceptually open to interpretation, touching on elements of metamorphosis, migration, speculative futures and infrapolitics. 

Video of the exhibition space can be found here for reference - https://vimeo.com/1072138254/ae39da84a0

Additional Information for successful applications 

* Works will be returned to the artists by ROSL  

* All artworks to be sent FAO Louis Chapple at: 

Royal Over-Seas League 


Over-Seas House 


6 Park Place, St James's Street 


London 


SW1A 1LR 


United Kingdom 

Please note that works need to be packaged securely and marked as 'temporary import' to avoid additional fees. 

Judges 

Louis Chapple

Louis Chapple is the Visual Arts Curator at Royal Over-Seas League, a not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to championing international friendship and understanding.

The ROSL ARTS programme has worked for over 70 years to support the careers of emerging talent in the fields of music, visual arts and literature.

Louis coordinates five exhibitions a year at Over-Seas House, London as well as an annual international artist residency programme in partnership with The Art House, Wakefield and ROSL PHOTO, an open call biennial photography competition.

Louis is a curator and writer from London, with an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from The Royal College of Art (2023).

He has worked at galleries and institutions including Alison Jacques Gallery, Niru Ratnam Gallery and The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and has curated exhibitions extensively across London including at Saatchi Gallery, and internationally in Seoul, Marseille and Barcelona. Louis is also the founder of the South-East London based contemporary art gallery Studio/Chapple. 

Almuth Tebbenhoff 

Almuth Tebbenhoff was born in Germany in 1949, came to England in 1966 as a student exchange and stayed. She studied ceramics at Sir John Cass School of Art 1972-5, made pots and surreal clay sculpture.

In 1981 Almuth set up a studio in Wandsworth and expanded her practice to include metal fabrication. For a while she worked very minimalistic then developed her own style.

Since 1980 Almuth has exhibited, lectured, tutored, experimented, developed and learnt to carve marble which is very grown up. Over four decades she made many sculptures which are in collections worldwide.

Who Can Apply?

International members of the Royal Society of Sculptors are invited to apply to this opportunity. Members need to be resident overseas to qualify.

Fee

Free

Entry Process

To complete this application, please provide the following:

·         Images of up to 5 works you would like considered for this opportunity  

·         A description of your present practice (200 words)

·         A CV of no more than two pages long

The closing deadline for applications is 5pm, Monday 19 May 2025.  

Unfortunately, due to the number of applications we receive feedback will not be given at this stage.

Notification of all results will be sent by email week commencing 2 June 2025.