KE L E V E N
Collaborative arts zine
Deadline extended to August 31st*
E L E V E N
I’ve not had a chance to promote the Eleven open call as much as I’d planned, so I’m extending the deadline to August 31st.
The cover contest will launch in August with a deadline of late September.
An arts zine curated by Jennifer Kyte. Artists, writers and designers are invited to submit work that responds to the theme “Eleven”.
Open Call
Open to creatives based in Somerset or near Frome, or those with a connection to the area or to Jennifer/ Peradam, including customers & clients based anywhere in the world.
If the zine generates profits, contributors have the option to donate their share to Black Swan Arts 40th birthday fundraiser.
Supporting Black Swan Arts
The brief is very loose. Wherever “eleven” or “11” takes you. For me, it’s about resetting in order to push that bit further. Mount launched 11 years ago in a very different guise to where we are now. When Simon stopped framing in 2022 I thought about stopping too. But I decided to see where I could push to, if I tried. Out of that Peradam was born. Eleven is pushing beyond limits. K is the 11th letter in the alphabet (and the 1st letter in our surname). The album K by Kula Shaker was the soundtrack of our earliest days together (by our I mean Simon and I). A formative time that forged fundamental principles that we still live by today. Every so often it’s important to take stock and remind myself of these principles. It’s all too easy to get swept away with the momentum of the everyday. I’ve reached one of those moments in life to ask where am I going from here? All the way up to 11.
This is where my mind goes when I think of “eleven”.
But where does your mind go?
Cover contest
To help fund the project we’ll be launching a cover contest. The deadline for this will be a bit later, but if you would like your submission to the inner pages of the magazine to be considered for the cover competition, you can let us know when you make your submission and we’ll send you more information about the contest a bit later.
Eleven
push it up to eleven
How to take part
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The aim of the project is to bring together different creatives working in or connected to Frome and Somerset, and have fun.
I want the zine to help raise the profile of the artists and writers involved and add to our local community.
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It’s free to enter.
Submit artworks or writing on the theme “eleven.” This is completely subjective, and can be abstract or literal.
You need to be based within 20-ish miles of Frome, or have a connection to Frome or Peradam (such as being a customer or client).
I’m not interested in AI generated artwork or writing, unless you’re using AI in a highly conceptually-led way or it is a development of an established practice. I recommend you only send work that you yourself have created. All work must be original and the copyright must be owned by you.
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I’m giving myself a year starting in April 2026 to gather material, design the zine and print or distribute it in whatever form it ends up taking. The finished zine will be published in spring 2027.
Deadline
To be guaranteed that I will look at your submission, please aim to send it to me by midnight on Monday 27th July.
After this, I will continue to consider submissions up until August 31st or sooner if I feel I have enough content.
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This will be an experimental zine, a process of discovery rather than everything mapped out in advance. For now I don’t know for sure what format the zine will take.
This project has no funding, so it’s a for-the-love-of-it thing. If you are a local business owner and would consider buying an advert or sponsorship, please get in touch.
We’ll only be able to print it if we raise the funds required, so we’ll be running a cover competition and other fundraisers. The amount we raise will determine the format it takes, whether it’s a glossy perfect bound journal, or DIY photocopied and stapled. The final aesthetic and design will reflect and accept the limitations of this approach. It might end up being a digital download with only a limited print run.
I will approach local shops and galleries about stocking copies, and it will be available on our website.
It might be something that is for sale, or free. If it’s the latter it will be funded exclusively by advertising and sponsorship.
If it generates any profits they will be split equally among the contributors, with the option of donating to Black Swan Arts 40th anniversary fundraiser. It’ll be totally up to individuals whether their share is donated or not - either way I hope that the zine can raise a bit of money to boost the arts in and around Frome, whether that’s individual artists or to the Black Swan.
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I’ll be running a competition for the cover image later in the process. This will be a fundraiser to enable us to print or distribute the zine. More info will be released later.
Entry fee is likely to be around £15 per image.
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If you have artwork, writing, or design that represents 11 in whatever way then fill in the submissions form below.
Please let me know a little about yourself, and what you plan to submit and I will get back to you.
Submissions
Register your interest.
Fill out the form below. I will reply to ask you to send the work to me or bring it to my studio if it’s not digitised.
(If you don’t hear back from me, please email me direct jennifer@mount-art.co.uk - sometimes form emails get lost in a black hole)
