Submissions for The Fronteer Open 2024 are now open. Fronteer Gallery's annual open exhibition offers the chance to win an exhibition for two prize winners. Sponsored by CuratorSpace.

The Fronteer Open 2024 will be held at Fronteer Gallery in Orchard Square, Sheffield, in November. Artists from across the UK are invited to submit work on any subject which will be hung in a Salon style.

There are two prizes available, a Judge's Choice Prize, decided by a judging panel made up of Fronteer co-directors Michael Borkowsky and Sharon Borkowsky, and guest judge Jake Harries from arts organisation Access Space.

There is also a People's Choice Prize decided by public vote. Both winning artists will win an exhibition at Fronteer Gallery in 2026 and one year’s Artists Level subscription to CuratorSpace.

Artists from across the UK are welcome to submit work in any medium, except audio or video works, and wall mounted work can be any size or shape, but should be no bigger than 70x70cm.

Sculptural work should fit on a 30x30cm plinth, and should not exceed 50cm height x 30cm x 30cm. 

Artists are invited to submit one piece of work for the exhibition.

You may provide a short description of no more than 150 words, which will be displayed alongside the work.   

The exhibition will run from 19th November - 7th December 2024.

There will be a Private View event on Tuesday 19th November.

There will also be a Prize Evening on Saturday 7th December when winners are announced.

Please note, the gallery is upstairs and there is no disabled access.

Artists from all backgrounds are invited to submit one piece of work each. It is free to apply with only successful artists paying a fee of £40.

In return for your fee, you will get a private view evening with free drinks which you are welcome to bring friends and family along to, invigilation throughout, and promotion of the exhibition online through social media posts.

The submission deadline is 18th October 2024.

Successful artists will be contacted by 20th October 2024.

Successful artists are welcome to send their work by post. 

Work sent by post should reach us by 2nd November 2024 at the latest.

Artists are also welcome to deliver work in person to the gallery during gallery opening hours by 2nd November 2024.

We also have an extra drop-off day on Saturday, 9th November, from 2-5 pm.

Please contact us before applying if you have any issues with these dates.

Successful artists should pay their £40 fee by 2nd November 2024.

Work can be offered for sale during the exhibition, and there is a commission charge of 10%.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

How to Submit

Wall Mounted work

Artists are invited to submit one piece of work each.

Work can be any size or shape but should be no bigger than 70x70 cm.

Please give us the completed size of your work including any frames or mounts.

All work should be ready to hang and can be framed or unframed, with suitable hanging attachments in place.

You may submit up to 3 images of your piece of work.

One image to show the whole piece and a further two images to show details if required.

Please note, although there is an upper limit size restriction, we only have a limited capacity to accept larger works, and smaller works are much more likely to be successful.

Sculpture and 3-D

3-D and sculptural work that does not hang on the wall should be no bigger than 50cm Height x 30cm width x 30cm depth. All work should arrive ready to display.

Work can be collected from the gallery after the prize evening ends on 7th December.

You are also welcome to collect during gallery opening hours between 17th - 20th December. 

More collection dates will be available for collection in January.

If you would like your work returning to you by post please be aware that we charge a fee which includes a £4 handling fee and the cost of 2nd Class signed for postage.

Larger parcels can be returned through Parcelforce and will be sent Express 48. Couriers cannot collect your work from the gallery and we do not print postage labels. 

All work must be complete at the time of submission.

Any work which varies from the original piece or size submitted may be rejected.

If you wish to submit any form of print, it will be your responsibility to print it off and prepare it for exhibition before delivering it to us.

For full T’s & C’s for the Fronteer Open prizes, please visit https://www.fronteer.co.uk/prizes-ts-and-cs

Thank you and good luck!

The Fronteer Team