Introduction

Co-Adorn Art Jewellery Society invites you to celebrate its fifth annual members' exhibition, Camp: A Spectacle of Rings. What better way to celebrate than to show off your best cocktail rings! This year, Co-Adorn asks the seriously playful artist to respond to the theme: Camp. 

Reaffirmed by theatrical subculture, and historically present in the exaggerated elegance of Baroque Art, 'Camp’ provokes an innovation of aesthetic values; celebrating obscure, unreasonable, artificial and emotionally calculated style.
   -  Meris Mosher, Co-Adorn

What is camp? Camp is a cultural trope, a specific aesthetic style. Camp celebrates the obscure, the unreasonable. Camp provokes innovation. The essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural, of artifice and exaggeration. Submit your rings that incite:

• Artifice
• Audaciousness
• Bigness
• Boldness
• Colour
• Dynamism

• Exaggeration
• Frivolity
• Gaudiness
• Humour
• Irony
• Naïve pretentiousness​

• Ostentatiousness
• ​Performative
• Shocking excess
• ​​Theatrics
• Wit

See our academic inspiration here: Sontag, S. (2018). Notes on 'Camp'. London, UK: Penguin Books.

​Each artist is invited to submit up to 3 cocktail rings for jurying.
Applications are open to Canadians, Canadians living abroad, and international artists living in Canada.

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Timeline

April 11 - Early-bird Deadline
April 18 - Entry Deadline
May 1 - Acceptance Notification
May 3 - 10 - Artist Agreements Due
May 3 - 14 - Works due in Halifax
May 31 - Work arrives in Ottawa
June 5 - June 25 - Camp exhibition at L.A. Pai Gallery
June 28 - Works returned to Halifax
July 5 - Works returned to artists

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How to Enter

Thank you for your interest, but this call is closed.

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Sales

All sales will be completed via L.A Pai Gallery.

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Juror

Lisa A. Pai, Director of L.A. Pai Gallery

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​Questions? Contact Meris Mosher, Exhibition Chair: exhibitions@co-adorn.com