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| Taking down Fractured |
My exhibition at the
Scottish Storytelling Centre is over and I went through to Edinburgh yesterday
to take it down. As always, an
exhibition comes down a lot quicker than it goes up! It has been a great pleasure showing my work
there as it is such a lovely venue (and the cafe is friendly and has good
coffee too).
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| View of exhibition |
Some of my local friends
have been asking me during school pick up how the exhibition has been going and
whether it was a success. The honest
answer is I don’t know. I wasn’t there
the whole time, but when I was in the building, visitors seemed interested (I
didn’t say I’m the artist, look at my amazing work, I just observed their
reactions). Friends who have visited the
show have told me how much they enjoyed it, but they are hardly likely to say
otherwise – I know I wouldn’t. So it is
hard to measure, partly because I don't know what to measure it against (sales, visitor enjoyment, visitor engagement, future work as a result of the show?).
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| Two of the Unsung Muses figures |
All I know is that I was
pleased with how the work looked and it was good to get it out of the studio
and into the public domain. Anything
beyond that is then up to the viewers.
And although it was sad to
take down the work, I will be hanging it again in less than a month at FarfieldMill in Cumbria. So it is good to have
something to look forward to and to continue working towards (alongside
everything else I’m doing!).
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| Exhibition View |
3 comments:
I think that if you are left with a good feeling at the end of an exhibition, and the feeling also that it has been worth all the work, then the exhibition has been a success. You have to think about why you are doing it in the first place. If you can look back on it afterwards with a feeling of satisfaction and pride, then it was good!
Wise words Sheila
There really isn't a formula to measure the success of an exhibition, too many variables. The important thing is that you felt good about it and also felt that it was well received when you were there. A local gallery, sadly now closed, used to leave a book in the gallery where people could make comments - sometimes the feedback was quite objective.
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