The next day I came in to clean up the wall around my paintings, and brought some oil paint and brushes, and matched the colours of the painting and painted in the four gaps that had appeared in the corners of my painting once I had stretched it, where the frame hadn't synced up with the border. I then spent the rest of the day helping other students hang their work.
The morning of show day we were in from 11:00 to have a group crit. As usual I was pretty vocal, I enjoy crits and have grown over time to be comfortable talking about people's work to them in front of a big group. The first stage had most of the students in our year attending, but after a few hours of talking and concentrating and standing in a freezing cold warehouse building people started to splinter off, and by the time it got to my turn, there was around 5 people left, and I spoke about the two works and how they had come about, what I was trying to achieve, and took a few questions/piece of advice from tutors.
Once the crits were over we had to set up the bar and get the last few preparations down before the guests started arriving.
Then finally the time came and guests started coming in, the bar began giving out drinks, us students working it in shifts. A few members of the public that hadn't been invited/weren't friends or family of students came which is good, something we want more of, I chatted to a few of them.
I managed to take a few photos of people either looking at my work, or posing with it.
Below are two pictures of the paintings I had in the show.
The team then finally got a chance to relax and celebrate all the hard work put in, and the success the show had been and posed together for a couple big group photos.
After a lovely evening, lots of good discussion and a decidedly successful show, we returned the following day to take down the show, fix up the walls, filling in any holes we had made, wrapping works and putting them in the van, and cleaning the floor and surfaces, leaving the gallery space as we had found it, and so fulfilling what the contract had stated.
The morning of show day we were in from 11:00 to have a group crit. As usual I was pretty vocal, I enjoy crits and have grown over time to be comfortable talking about people's work to them in front of a big group. The first stage had most of the students in our year attending, but after a few hours of talking and concentrating and standing in a freezing cold warehouse building people started to splinter off, and by the time it got to my turn, there was around 5 people left, and I spoke about the two works and how they had come about, what I was trying to achieve, and took a few questions/piece of advice from tutors.
Once the crits were over we had to set up the bar and get the last few preparations down before the guests started arriving.
Then finally the time came and guests started coming in, the bar began giving out drinks, us students working it in shifts. A few members of the public that hadn't been invited/weren't friends or family of students came which is good, something we want more of, I chatted to a few of them.
I managed to take a few photos of people either looking at my work, or posing with it.
Below are two pictures of the paintings I had in the show.
The team then finally got a chance to relax and celebrate all the hard work put in, and the success the show had been and posed together for a couple big group photos.
After a lovely evening, lots of good discussion and a decidedly successful show, we returned the following day to take down the show, fix up the walls, filling in any holes we had made, wrapping works and putting them in the van, and cleaning the floor and surfaces, leaving the gallery space as we had found it, and so fulfilling what the contract had stated.
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