Review: ROI Annual Exhibition 2018 + commentary on pricing

This is my review of the 2018 annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, following on my from my initial impressions and prizewinners included in 126th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

The feature end wall of the Main Gallery

This one includes:

• statistics about the open entry for all those who submitted their oil paintings in the hope of getting them on the wall of the exhibition
• some of the paintings I really liked in the exhibition - which feature throughout this post
• artists who have done well in terms of selling their work
• some of the things I liked less about the exhibition
• commentary on sales and an idea for how to stimulate more sales in future

Thames at Richmond by the new President of the ROI Tim Benson PROI NEAC oil 41x 36cm £1,500

I've been telling Tim Benson for ages that I really like his landscapes! Just need to persuade him to put them on his website too now.....

ROI 126th Annual Exhibition - Open Entry Metrics

I've made it my practice in recent times to include statistics relevant to all those endeavouring to exhibit in the annual open exhibitions of national art societies!

The idea is to show people what sort of chance they have of getting their work in the show

Below is a table of the numbers relating to this exhibition and below that I've summarised the key points

ROI 2018 Open Entry Exhibition statistics - for artists and artworks

750 artists submitted 1,900 artworks to the exhibition this year. Of these

• 16% of artists got 10% of the artwork past the initial digital screening stage - and submitted work for final selection. 
• 10% of the artists who submitted work have work hanging in the exhibition
• Only 6% of the artwork submitted was selected for the exhibition
• This suggests that quite a lot of artists submit a lot of artwork. 

The Good News - this is a competitive open entry but at least a third of the exhibition will be by artists and artwork from the open entry.
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