Suboart Magazine entry for July 24 – Deadline 29th May
Success – two page feature in August magazine:
This was my first successful Magazine submission and success was based not just on the images I submitted but the Bio, artist/project statements submitted. I had learnt to adapt my artist statement and bio for specific audiences and specifications (this entry was my 7th adaptation). It seems I’m getting better at matching pitches to audiences.
It was also the 1st time that I had to approve a proof copy of my work.
I share the news and promoted my work on instagram:
The submission process:
What? Get your work published in our beautifully designed & carefully curated July and August 2024 print issues!
- Features are in between 2 and 4 pages long and include in between 1 and 6 of your works, accompanied by your artist bio & statement, website & social media handles
- Interviews are in between 4 and 12 pages long and give you the chance to speak about your path towards becoming an artist, your practice & specific projects you’d like to highlight, your creative process, upcoming projects, and more.
- Q&As are in between 4 and 6 pages long and are a shorter version of our interviews that allow artists to speak about their work, inspiration, projects, and themselves.
- All artists will receive photos of their physical pages that they are free to use on their social media accounts & website
- All artists will be featured on our Instagram account
- Print issues will be available for purchase internationally through print on demand
How to submit? Fill out the form below and – send a maximum of 6 works to submissions@suboartmagazine.com, subject: JULY 2024. Pictures can be sent through WeTransfer (preferred), Google Drive, Dropbox, attached to email
Pictures requirements
- JPG or PNG (no .heic or tiff)
- named: First Name_Last Name_Title_Year_Technique_Size
- high resolution (preferably 300 dpi & 31 cm on the longer side, but other resolutions/ sizes are okay, too)
Information requirements
- Biography (150 words max. Please do not just copy your CV or exhibition list)
- Artist or Project Statement (150 max. 1st or 3rd person)
- After submitting, please don’t forget to send up to 6 pictures to submissions@suboartmagazine.com, Subject: JULY 2024. All submitted pictures must be high resolution, ideally 300 dpi.
Fees: To be as inclusive as possible, there is no submission fee to apply to this open call. Upon selection, there is a non-refundable participation fee of 30€ (33$ USD) that allows us to keep on doing what we’re doing. The fee includes a free digital copy of the magazine (PDF) and photos of the physical pages that artists are free to use on their media channels and website. The publication fee doesn’t include a free printed copy of the magazine.
What else?
- Print issues will be available for purchase internationally* via print on demand through a link on our website (printed by our partner Peecho), and digital copies of the magazine will be for sale on http://www.suboart.com/shop
- All artists will get photos of their physical pages and will be featured on our Instagram account
- It’s not a problem for us if the works have been published in other publications before.
- Deadline: Wednesday May 29, 2024 11:59 p.m. EST
- All artists will receive feedback until June 12. In case you don’t hear from us by mid June, please do reach out to us.
The publication fee includes a picture of the physical pages that the artist is featured on. Artists have permission to use these photographs on their websites, newsletter and social media channels, always crediting Suboart Magazine as the copyright owner of the images.
The Print Issues will be available for purchase through our website via print on demand.
Digital issues will be available for purchase on our websites (www.suboartmagazine.com & http://www.suboart.com).
The July 2024 print issue is scheduled to be released in July 2024 and the August 2024 print issue is scheduled to be released in August 2024.
MY SUBMISSION
Artist Bio
Niki South is a visual artist born in England, now living in Pembrokeshire Wales. Visiting Pembrokeshire she found a hiraeth (deep longing for the place) and spent many years living a a ‘dual centre’ life, between the two places, until relocating there permanently. She is currently completing her BA (Hons) Photography degree with the Open University.
Niki uses landscape photography as a medium for expressing her particualar reflections, photographing in a metaphorical manner. Her work is shaped by research on ‘affect’, expressing what is in a photographer’s mind, versus ‘effect’, realism. Her previous work ‘Brexit’ expressed her reflections on an issue of that moment.
Her photography is a personal response to dynamic landscapes both internally and externally. She finds combining the world within her head with the one in front of her cathartic. (133 words)
Artist Statement
These images from my series ‘What Lies Beneath’, express my reflections on community using the landscape of an ancient woodland to create a visual model where things coexist and support each other. Here I transform abstract ideas in my head into something concrete.
My experience of local community provokes the work, where conversely humans are often disharmonious and driven by difference. The harmonious, inclusive characteristics of primeval woodland societies, such as cooperation, support, and adaptation, would benefit human communities where sadly ‘incomers’ like myself, are never accepted as local, no matter how long passes – a story common to settings across the globe.
Combining the world in my head with the one in front of me, has helped to heal some of the wounds that inspired the story’s beginning.
What lies beneath the emerald wrapping, embracing their collective realm?
What lies elsewhere beneath man’s disguised demeanour, civil but deliberately divisive? (150 words)
I had an exciting email 13.6.24
Dear Niki,
Thank you for submitting toSuboart Magazine and congratulations!
We’re excited to let you know that your work has been selected to be part of our August 2024 print issue.
What you’ll get from us
- A beautifully designed two-page feature that will showcase in between one and 4 of your photos and will include your biography, artist statement, website and social media account
- A photograph of the pages that you’ll be free to use on your website, socials & newsletter
- A digital PDF copy of the magazine & promotion on our Instagram page through posts or reels or stories
- Time to proofread your feature before publication to make sure everything turns out perfectly
If you’d like to see pictures of former magazines, please click here and here.
As mentioned during our open call, there is a non-refundable participation fee of 30€ ($33 USD) that allows us to keep on doing what we’re doing. The fee doesn’t include a free printed copy, these will be available for purchase via print on demand through a link on our website.
To confirm your participation in Suboart Magazine August 2024, please pay the fee until Tuesday June 18.
We’ll send you a confirmation once we receive the payment.
Please let us know if you have any questions, we look forward to hearing from you!
Warm regards,
Nina & Carolina
Instagram / info@suboartmagazine.com
I have paid the fee and had it acknowledged and now posted on Instagram my good news:
They replied with further details 15.6.24:
Hi Niki,
Many thanks for the payment, we’re happy to have you.
We’ll start working on the August issue at the beginning of July and are planning to send you your pages for review until July 20th, approximately.
In case you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us anytime.
Have a great weekend!
Best regards,
Nina & Carolina
22.7.24
I was sent a draft proof copy to approve – which I did.
18.8.24 Suboart Magazine no 28 published
LO4: independently disseminate your body of work by establishing relationships and networks with audiences, clients and markets
NIKI SOUTH 