About remarks

remarks is a group of visual artists.

The aim of the group is to support members' visual practice through discussion and the exploration of opportunities for members to exhibit and extend their work. It is a non-profit making organisation which actively seeks opportunities to bring contemporary visual art, and the issues surrounding it, to a wider audience.

Objectives

1. To meet every two months for discussion, mutual encouragement and the sharing of views,
information and expertise in relation to:
a) members visual art practice
b) development of opportunities for bringing members' work to a wider audience through exhibitions and other activities, both as individual artists and as a group.

2. As opportunities arise, to organise exhibitions of members' work and other activities, with the intention
a) of getting the work seen and discussed by a wider audience, and
b) of encouraging active engagement with the work.

remarks Constitution - the small print

  1. Membership is open to artists by invitation or request, subject to approval by a majority of the membership. An aspiring member would normally be asked to attend a meeting as a visitor and to talk about their work. Membership pre-supposes active engagement with the group's aims and objectives, and confers full voting rights.
  2. Associate membership may be offered to past members of the group and others, and entitles them to receive the minutes and otherwise be kept informed of the group's activities. Associate members have no voting rights. no subscription is asked of associate members.
  3. remarks will hold an Annual General Meeting, normally in September of each year, to receive the annual accounts, to elect a Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer, to agree amendments to the constitution, to review the group's activities over the past year and to agree the subscription. The AGM may also decide to wind up the group. All decisions require a simple majority of those attending.
  4. An Extraordinary General Meeting may be held, with the same powers as the AGM, provided notice is given by at least six members in writing to the Secretary 28 days before the proposed meeting. All decisions at such an Extraordinary General Meeting require a simple majority of those attending.
  5. remarks will normally meet bi-monthly. These meetings are also the group's committee meeting. They have the power to make policy and decisions about the group's activities, and to allocate tasks to individual members on an ad hoc basis, always provided that there is a quorum of at least 50% of the membership present. All decisions require a simple majority of those attending.
  6. The role of the Chair shall be to see that the decisions of the group are put into action, to chair the AGM and to arrange the chairing of the monthly meetings.
  7. The role of the Secretary shall be to administer the affairs of the group in consultation with the Chair, and to arrange the taking and circulation of the minutes.
  8. The role of the Treasurer shall be to administer the group's finances in consultation with Chair, to liaise with the bank, to keep the accounts, to recommend the subscription rate, and to present the annual acounts to the AGM.
  9. Amendments to the constitution shall be made at the AGM or at a duly constituted EGM, and may be agreed by a simple majority. Proposed amendments must be received by the Secretary in writing at leat 28 days before the AGM or EGM, and circulated by the Secretary to all members in advance of the meeting.
  10. In the event of remarks being would up, the financial assets remaining after all liabilties have been met shall be distributed equally amongst the currently paid-up membership.
    11. October 1998