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About Summer Exhibition 2013

10 June — 18 August 2013

Now in its 245th year, the Summer Exhibition remains a much anticipated highlight of the arts calendar, serving as a unique window on to all areas of the contemporary art world. It is the world’s largest open-submission exhibition, displaying more than 1,000 works in all styles and media, including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, architectural models and film.
All works are fastidiously selected by a panel of celebrated artists and architects from across the disciplines, and it is their task to narrow down more than 10,000 entries to those that go before the public. The majority of the works are also available to buy, offering an unrivalled opportunity to own work by high profile and emerging artists.

This year, the exhibition is co-ordinated by Norman Ackroyd RA and architect Eva Jiricná RA, who will explore contemporary portraiture and the meeting points between sculpture and architecture.

The Summer Exhibition draws praise for being a ‘microcosm of British democracy’ (The Daily Telegraph) - hanging the work of exceptionally talented newcomers alongside that of globally acclaimed artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Grayson Perry RA and Anish Kapoor RA, making it a truly unique spectacle in the art world.
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/summer/about-the-exhibition/

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ra-magazine/summer-2013/summer-exhibition-2013-suddenly-this-summer,500,RAMA.html

Humphrey Ocean RA, the Academy’s Professor of Perspective, is also taking a role on this year’s hanging committee. He emerges still reeling from a week in which some 11,000 images have passed before the selection panel. ‘Once you’ve picked out the good stuff you start to get a clearer view,’ he says. ‘What the Summer Exhibition offers is a picture of what’s going on all over the UK, what’s being made in all sorts of conditions. And you don’t have to go to art school to produce something wonderful. Sometimes, as a selector, you just stumble across something that is completely beautiful but comes from left field. And that’s what this show can get – and what Tate and the National Gallery can’t. Whatever the Summer Exhibition is not, it is a contemporary show. It’s a picture of what’s happening right now.

_{Sean Scully RA, 'Doric Sea', 2013. © Sean Scully, courtesy Neo Inc., New York and Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.}‘Turner famously believed that rules alone don’t make an artist. As a painter, he changed the rules. He pointed a way forward into a world that was less constricted, paving a way for Monet, for Cubism, for the whole of modern art, for all the changes that have happened in the world since Joshua Reynolds died. And a constant across this era of change, has been the Summer Exhibition.’ It has been like a monitor through which we can gauge what is happening out there, Ocean says.