Information Sheet

Venue

The Corn Exchange was originally built as the Prince Regent's Riding House in 1805 and is situated in the newly renovated Brighton Dome arts complex within the Brighton Pavilion Gardens. The Corn Exchange is very well known in Brighton and is right in the centre of the city between the fashionable bohemian North Laine area, the boutiques of the Lanes and the main shopping areas of North St and Churchill Square. Buses from every area of Brighton stop nearby and the railway station is within a few minutes walk. There is ample car parking in the centre of Brighton.

Applying and selection

Applications are invited nationwide (and worldwide) from individual makers, groups of makers and Sussex based galleries. Makers wanting to share spaces must be individually selected and the number of makers must be reflected in the size of the space booked. We will require examples of all makers work to be shown whether individually or within a studio group or gallery.

We require your makers CV or statements and a minimum of 4 representative images of your work, clearly labelled with your name, title, medium, size and price.

If you can, please apply on-line, this eliminates the possibility of us making typographical mistakes in the website and catalogue. If applying on-line as a group or gallery please send a seperate application for each member of the group but with the same group name on the fascia.

We also accept applications made by post and images should be provided as slides or photographic prints. If you would like to receive notification that we have received your application, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard with your application those applying on-line should get an email acknowledgement. If applying on-line send a seperate application for each member of the group but with the same group name on the fascia.

Deadline

Applications are invited anytime before 15 January. Selection will be made by the selection committee in January.

Space

Each space will comprise of a white painted rectangular shell with a minimum of 2 spotlights. The boards are made from hollow ply, painted white. They are 9ft high and 50mm / 2” wide. While they will support a reasonable hanging weight if you are hanging anything heavy i.e. shelves, they should either be hung from the top or from anchors in the board. Work can be hung from screws or mirror plates. (please allow for the possibility of the stand being up to 10cm smaller than stated due to the 5cm width of the partition walls – almost all will be 5cm smaller) Apart from stands 28/47/56/65/80/95 the reverse sides of the boards are not spotlit you may want to pay for an extra light if you are on an end.

Spotlights are adjustable and fixed onto the fascia. The name on the fascia is produced by the set builders and written as you specify. The lighting should be ample but extra spots can be fitted for £27.50 per spot. The stands do not have power sockets but these can be provided for £40. Apart from stands 28/47/56/65/80/95 the reverse sides of the boards are not spotlit you may want to pay for an extra light if you are on an end.

We also provide – 1 central credit card machine / a free wrapping service / porters to assist with set up and break down / free exhibitors cloakroom / discount at the café / catalogue containing exhibitor information / website.

We have found that a minimum of stand furniture works best with this shell scheme, stand designs that have worked best in the past are; cup-hooks screwed directly into the shell with product displayed like a gallery; White painted ‘floating' shelves screwed into the shell; A small number of freestanding plinths. It is easy to overdo the stand furniture especially if you are not used to a shell scheme – we recommend trying to keep it light and spacious with space for visitors to enter the stand and look at the work away from the bustle of the aisle.

Dates

Tickets

There will be a charge for entry by the general public into the show of £5 per visitor. This will include a 16-page catalogue listing all exhibitors. There will be a limited supply of 2 for 1 tickets for admission on Friday, Saturday and Sunday available from the exhibitors and from the website. You will be given about 20 free tickets for admission on Friday (late night).

Private View

A Private View will be held on Thursday 23rd November. We have a growing database of past buyers at BAF and will be inviting the best buyers, as well as gallery owners from the South East and London and arts professionals in the area. Private View tickets are sent out by BCF but if have any special customers who might want to come please send us a list and we'll send out a ticket.

Stand prices

We have introduced a few new sizes in response to conversations with makers. We have made some depths 125cm to accommodate cabinets etc. We have introduced a 1.50m x 1.25 shared space as the cheapest space @£300 this would be suitable for a single exhibitor with small scale work such as jewellery. The plan is a draft plan only - we may redraw the plan when we know what the final exhibitor demands are. In order to accommodate a few extra stands and increase some widths to 1.25m we have had to shave the widths of the aisles to a standard 2m everywhere. As a result exhibitors will not be able to place any obstructions such as chairs or cabinets outside the stand boundaries please bear this in mind if you need space for a cabinet - perhaps a 1.25 deep space would be best.

Extras

Socket £40, Extra Light £27.50 ,Phone Socket £75. We recommend going easy on extra lighting as it does get hot in the hall. VAT is not charged by BCF

Payment

We will require a 25% deposit to be paid within 14 days after notification of selection to guarantee reservation your space. The remainder of the balance can be paid in instalments in September, October and November or in one payment on acceptance.