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Submissions 2025-06-07T14:06:03-04:00

STILL LIFE 2025

JUROR: CIAR O’MOHONY

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Midnight, Sunday, June 29, 2025

Be part of our online autumn 2025 exhibition and ‘art book’.

All selected STILL LIFE works will be included in an online slideshow, with a playlist and a downloadable PDF publication.

For this CALL FOR ENTRY, the Aird is enlisting contemporary artists’ vibrant interpretations of the STILL LIFE genre. All pieces, be they created using paint, mixed media, collage, photography, sculpture, and/or new media that reflect on this art-historical reference and how it appears as a stand-in for nature or an analysis of culture, will be considered. The intent of this call is to bring together a large array of works that encourage a rethinking of the traditionally narrow definition of ‘still life’.

JUROR

CIAR O’MAHONY is an artist, curator, and the Lead Gallery Attendant at POWER PLANT based in TKaranto, Canada.

They received their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and their MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London. They draw on their hybrid practice to create projects exploring education, labor, and the greater economy through the lens of contemporary art. They are also a member of the Tkaranto artist collective, the plumb www.theplumb.ca/.

Variously, they have exhibited work, developed public programs, and curated exhibitions for South London Gallery, UK, The Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, UK, Cubitt Artists’, UK, the plumb gallery, TKaranto, The Aird Gallery, TKaranto, and Archer Beach Haus, US. Their work is carried by Art Metropole and archived by Xpace. They have been published by e-flux journal, Eater, Liminul Magazine, The Blackwood Gallery, and The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.

KEY DATES & DETAILS


EXTENDED DEADLINE
Sunday, June 29, 2025, by midnight

JURYING
August 2025

ONLINE EXHIBITION LAUNCH
November 2025

*Note: Due to the volume of submissions, we apologize in advance for any inconvenience caused by our delays. Our juror(s) review every submission carefully, and we ask for your patience during this process. Only selected artists will be contacted. Thank you for understanding.

APPLICATION DETAILS

  • Artists can submit up to two works.
  • Image files must be as follow:
    • File names must be labelled Last Name_First Name, Title.jpg
    • Example: Smith_Jane, Morning Doves.jpg
    • Images can be in jpeg/jpg/png format.
    • Image resolution should be 150 dpi max
    • File size cannot exceed 2MB
  • Submit original works only.
  • Please note that improperly named files may not be recorded or will be lost in our system.

ENTRY FEE
The entry fee is $50 and covers entry up to 2 works per artist. It is non-refundable and can be paid upon submitting your application. Funds collected go towards making this exhibition possible.

SALES
Artists will be informed of sales. The gallery asks for a 30% donation/commission on all sales.

The John B. Aird Gallery is not accepting submissions at this time.

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