• There is no guarantee that work will be sold.
• Artists will receive 70% from the sale of their mail art, less any gallery commission incurred.
• Payment will be made by Paypal to artists whose work is sold approximately 2 weeks after the exhibition has ended.
• As per the terms of taking part in the project we may use your mail art in any potential promotional or published material relating to Mail Me Art and/or the project.
• Artists will not be required to contribute to the cost of any of the following: the exhibition, the promotion of the event, or the publication and printing of the Mail Me Art book.
• Unsold artwork cannot be returned to artists.
• Artwork not sold at the exhibition may be offered for sale online through the Mail Me Art website.
• Most submissions with items included inside have not been opened by us – we wanted that to be a surprise for the new owners of the artwork
• Pricing will be decided by the organisers of the Mail Me Art project and is at our discretion.

Exhibition dates:
Friday 30th July – Thursday 5th August 2010
Opening reception Friday July 30th 6-11pm

Location: Red Gate Gallery
209a Coldharbour Lane
London SW9 8RU
United Kingdom
www.redgategallerylondon.co.uk

Please do come along to the opening reception on the 30th – all are welcome!

Nearest railway station: Loughborough Junction

Mail art by Aaron Blecha

We are pleased to announce that the Mail Me Art 2 exhibition will be held in London at the end of July this year! All are welcome!

Dates:
Friday 30th July – Thursday 5th August 2010
Opening reception Friday July 30th 6-11pm

Location:
Red Gate Gallery
209a Coldharbour Lane
London SW9 8RU
United Kingdom
www.redgategallerylondon.co.uk

All of the submissions for Mail Me Art 2 will be available to view and purchase at the exhibition. More information will be released nearer to the exhibition dates.

A selection of artwork from both Mail Me Art projects will be on view as part of a mini exhibition and book-signing event at Borders book store in Leicester, UK.

Included will be work from Jon Burgerman, Dan May and Junichi Tsuenoka, along with many others. There will also be a preview of a small number of the current Mail Me Art 2 submissions.

The book Going Postal with the World’s Best Illustrators and Designers will be available to buy, with Darren on hand to talk about the projects and sign books.

Borders is at Fosse Park, located at the M1/M69 interchange (junction 21) in the East Midlands. It offers a huge selection of books, music, film and gifts – plus a Starbucks. If you’re in the area, come along and pay us a visit! You will find us on the first floor of the store.

Date: Sunday 15th November 2009
Time: 12 noon – 3pm

The address is:
Borders
Grove Farm Triangle
Fosse Park
Leicester LE19 1WT

Mail Me Art 2 is now open for submissions! Following the success of the first project, we are looking forward to having just as much fun with Mail Me Art 2. This second project will run for around 6 months and there will again be a monthly prize, along with another exhibition at the end (if we get enough submissions!). There might even be another book, depending on the success of the current one…

For full details of how to submit artwork click here. More information about the project can be found here.

A glimpse of some of the work that will be on display

After looking at around sixty different galleries both in person and on the internet, I managed to whittle it down to three: The Rose Theatre in Kingston-upon-Thames, the View From The Top in Nottingham and the Red Gate Gallery in London,with Kitch-en in Newcastle coming a close fourth.

While The Rose provided a contemporary venue in a good location, I didn’t feel that it had the right set-up for what I needed and Newcastle was too far for me to travel, so I had to discount those. In the end it was a choice between London and Nottingham. I was in Nottingham several months ago. I can’t remember what I was doing there (just remembered, we went so my son could visit Warhammer World.) and while we were there I decided to have a look in Waterstone’s to check out some books. I wasn’t particularly looking for a gallery at the time, but just by luck while I was wandering about the store I discovered they had a gallery situated on the top floor of the building with some great views of the city. It was closed off at the time, but after a quick chat with the curator and a glance around the space I had decided this was a serious contender. In the end, though, the combination of receiving a recommendation for the Red Gate Gallery and having the opportunity to hold the exhibition in my original choice of location on the dates I wanted (and having accommodation and storage available nearby) won the contest. I recently went to see the gallery while I was in London visiting the Doctor Who Exhibition at Earls Court, and was really pleased with my choice.

So London it is, then and the exhibition will be held at the Red Gate Gallery.

Red Gate Gallery from Friday 3nd April until Thursday 9th April 2009.

All 600 pieces of mail art will be on display and for sale, including work from Jon Bugerman, Dan May, Kristian Olson, Michael Slack, Nick Deakin, Junichi Tsuneoka and many others. Copies of the Mail Me Art book will also be available for purchase at the event. The Red Gate Gallery is located in Coldharbour Lane, London. More details coming soon…

[UPDATE: Click here for more information]

You can seen more of Dan’s work at dan-may.com and you can read the LCS interview I did with him here.