BarCam is an artist from Novara, Italy. She exhibited in Droitwich Mail Art exhibitions in 2016, 2017 and 2018, and she sent us a little booklet “Librillola”, a crayon drawing on the black card. BarCam is an artist who enjoys experimenting with different subjects and techniques, and she is an active member of the mail art network. More about her art you can find on her personal website.
New year, new mail art project!
SELF PORTRAIT
past, present, future and wannabe self
[other-pair-of-eyes self, mum’s-wish self, socially-acceptable self, if-only self,
before-I-met-you self, selfish self, the-best-of self, naughty self, clever self,
silly self, good-deed self, ignorant self, stubborn self…]
After a very successful 2017 exhibition, with a large number of submissions arrived and my fear that gallery space allocated to the project won’t be enough big, I am glad to announce that the new Droitwich Mail Art project is on now. The theme is Self Portrait [past, present, future and wannabe self] and the artists are invited to look at their mirrors (real or imagined) and create the picture of themselves, as they are or wish to be, or how they looked once upon the time. Here are few important notes:
Theme: Self Portrait
Technique: Any [except videos and 3D]
Format: please choose A6 [10cm X 15cm] or A5 [15cm X 21cm], if possible.
No entry fee, no returns, all mail art will be exhibited. Racist, violent and pornographic artworks will not be exhibited. Max. 2 submissions per artist.
Artist’s /artwork’s details: Please give us clearly written – your name, title of the work, email address, website [if any]. Please confirm your submission by
email to mail.art2015@yahoo.co.uk
Deadline: 1st June 2018
The exhibition will be held during the ArtsFest in Droitwich Spa, UK [30 June – 28 July 2018] in the public library gallery. All artworks will be published on
Droitwich Mail Art website [droitwichmailart.wordpress.com]
Please send your art to:
Droitwich Mail Art, 19 Impney Way, Droitwich Spa, WR9 7EJ, United Kingdom
Neiva Mattioli Leite is an artist from Porto Alegre, Brazil. She is a member of Grupo Galha Azul, which mail activities are making art books and mail art. Neiva sent us a gentle painting of ballet dancers in a style that combines two great masters – Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Luiza G P Gutierrez is an artist from Porto Alegre, Brazil. She is a prolific mail artist and her art was a part of numerous projects worldwide. She is also a member of Grupo Gralha Azul, art group which members mainly create art books and mail art.
Daniel C. Boyer from New York, USA, is a surrealist painter, writer and poet. He is founder of The New York Boyer Foundation which he runs with his wife Sílvia Soares Boyer. Daniel’s paintings are influenced by Surrealist thinking and methods, and he seeks his inspiration in politics and political history. In 1994 he published The Octopus Frets: political poems and in 2003 the artist’s book The Tailgating Spinster. An active mail artist, he has served as Chief Executive Officer of the International Union of Mail Artists (IUOMA) since 2002.
Daniel sent us his acrylic painting on Canson® Universal™ sketchbook paper “The Breadth Art Outside Canadian Painting”.
Horst Tress is recognised mail artist who is active on the art scene since 1970. He is trained as a typographer and commercial artist and his art has been shown in 400 international exhibitions in galleries, artistic associations and museums. Horst exhibited in 24 solo exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s, and his work is published in numerous catalogues and books.
Horst Tress has taken a part in our exhibition in 2015 and 2016. This time he sent us his witty and thought-provoking graphics – “I feel like a toothpaste tube”, “Drain Cleaner” and “Spray painting is a daughter of freedom”.
Australian artist Robyn Banks sent us her found images collage postcard with the title “Art is taking the everyday and making it beautiful”. Robyn is an active IUOMA member who is taking part in a large number of mail art projects.
Honoria Starbuck is a visual artist and art teacher from Austin, TX. She is active mail artist since 1989. Her mail art has been shown in many international art festivals, Mail Art congresses, museums, galleries, restaurants, and private settings.
Honoria draws the inspiration for her art from art history, especially prehistoric cave paintings, and from there she develops her abstract art and expressive gestural paintings and drawings of animals and human figures.
Her digital art is very interesting, both because of the subjects and style. She is creating her digital art in a manner of various traditional techniques, but with a distinctly modern approach and full use of 21st-century technology.
To learn more about Honoria Starbuck’s art, please visit her website.
The ART has changed its styles, significance and meaning so many times throughout the history, but it has always been a constant part of humanity and the lives of people. Everybody enjoys the ART – commons and royals, children and adults, blue collars and white collars – the art should not know any borders, limits or restrictions. The ART is capable to fit into any shape and form, to fulfil any expectation, to adapt to be understandable to all and to be enigmatic and mysterious. The ART has a duty to enhance the reality, to see the beauty, to recognise diversity, to provoke our thoughts, to call for a rebellion, to punch and shake us.
Theme: Long Live The Art!
Technique: Any
Format: please choose A6 (10cm X 15cm), A5 (15cm X 21cm) or A4 (21cm X 29cm), if possible.
No entry fee, no returns, all mail art will be exhibited. Racist, violent and pornographic artworks will not be exhibited.
Artist’s /artwork’s details: Please give us clearly written – your name, title of the work, email address, website (if any). Please confirm your submission by email to mail.art2015@yahoo.co.uk
All artworks will be published on Droitwich Mail Art website.
Deadline: 15th June 2017
The exhibition will be held during the ArtsFest in Droitwich Spa, UK (1 – 30 August 2017).
Send your artworks to:
Droitwich Mail Art
19 Impney Way
Droitwich Spa
WR9 7EJ
United Kingdom
Contact us: mail.art2015@yahoo.co.uk
Droitwich Mail Art 