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Group Exhibition/Presentations....


Exhibition Set-Up:

This week was the week of the group exhibitions. My group’s theme was Equality/Diversity. We set up on Monday, this involved gathering our work together and discussing where we wanted to go and what pieces would work together best. I had originally made some pieces specifically for this presentation/exhibition, but after writing about a past piece of mine I had made earlier in the project and seeing how popular it was on my social media I decided to use this piece instead. It also seemed to fit in with the theme a lot better as well. After putting it up I felt that there needed to be something else, as there was too much white space around it. I looked through my work and found a couple more pieces that I felt had similar styles to my first piece and placed them next to it. To hang them I originally Blu-tacked some bull dog clips to the wall and hung the prints from the clips, but I decided to add some string across the wall to add a purpose to the bull dog clips but to also add this feminine touch to my prints.

1st exhibition layout

Adding a second piece

Adding flowers and a third piece
Final exhibition layout
Setting up
Group & Individual Presentation:
The first part of the presentations involved a group presentation which was to be based on how we set up our exhibition as a group and our overall thoughts on how the process of hanging our work went. I think we did well considering how little time we had to discuss and organise our work. After the initial group discussion we then moved onto presenting our own work individually. I'm not the best when it comes to individual presentations, and it's something that I'm learning to become more confident in, so I did blank out at certain points. But I was thankful for the prompts and questions which allowed me to go into more depth and triggered my memory of what to say. I tried to be as coherent and detailed as possible, so I hope that came through clearly. I explained my research behind my work, how I got to these pieces, the artists that I was inspired by and so on. I think I could have been more detailed and explained some things further but overall was pleased with my attempt at group presenting.








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