Sprung 24

SPRUNG '24

An open call for artists, designers & makers aged 18-30

We're dead keen to hear from makers working across a variety of disciplines and at various stages of their creative practice. Perhaps you’re exploring your specialism on a foundation course right now, maybe you're a recent graduate starting out with your own creative practice, or it could be that you’re busy with something completely different? Whatever path you’re taking, it’s a time in our lives to take creative risks and to explore what motivates us to keep making work. 

Building upon Prema’s fifty-year history as a pioneering rural safehouse for the development of artists and their creative practice, Sprung 24 seeks to encourage conversations and collaboration between those at different and various stages in their artistic career, and to showcase a diverse range of practice happening among young artists in 2024. 

We are especially keen to showcase the work of artists and makers from throughout the south-west, especially Gloucestershire, Bristol, BANES, Wiltshire, Herefordshire and South Wales. Work from makers outside this region will be considered too.

The exhibition will be part of SITE Festival, an open studio trail in the Stroud area held on the weekends of 8th - 9th and 15th - 16th June 2024. As well as your work being part of this long running festival, there will be opportunities to help run the exhibition over these weekends. 

Sprung 24 takes place from Saturday 8th June 2024 until Saturday 27th July 2024.

The closing date for submissions is Friday 3 May 2024 at 5pm.

The project is being directed by Charlie Ash, a resident artist at Prema from 2023-25, who graduated from BA Fine Art at Falmouth in 2019. He is working with Jessy Plant, a Stroud based artist and curator alongside the team at Prema to support fresh, innovative visual arts culture in a rural setting. 

How to apply

To find out more information and to submit up to three pieces of work for consideration in the show, click here