Visiting Galleries

Eyeball Kicks:I know this isn't a gallery its a shop but whatever.

• Advertising at venue: Business cards, signage outside the shop
• Content: All work isn't original - selling prints (framed and unframed), stickers, magazines, books, postcards 
• How they display work: All work is framed and hanging by wires (multipile works hanging on verticle wires), books and magazines displayed on a bookself, postcards and prints in a glass display case
• People's reactions to art: No one was in there when I was there
• My opinion of art: There is so much artwork there, I have many different opinions. Some very modern art/abstract art isn't to my taste. I saw some James Jean prints and I love his work. 

Matchbox:
This is a shop with a gallery at the back

• Advertising at venue: Business cards, signage outside the shop, a piece of paper to sign up for emails from the shop
• Content: Multiple mediums and styles of work. Drawing, prints, photography, sculpture, painting, Matchbox set their own themes for their gallery and artists apply with work suited to the theme. 
• How they display work: Hanging framed works on walls, non-framed work pinned or bluetacked to the wall, bulldog clips
• People's reactions to art: No major reactions, very quiet
• My opinion of art: There were many different styles so again different opinions, I liked the majority, I wasn't a fan of the sculpture doll head

Suite: 

• Advertising: Business cards in the middle of the room, and also many cards by the window on the ground, signage outside the shop, a piece of paper to sign up for emails 
• Content: Downstairs: Paintings. Upstairs: Photography
• How they display work: Hanging work by hooks
• People's reactions to art: No one was in there when I was there
• My opinion of art: Not my taste at all
• Other Info: They weren't available for exhibitions downstairs (the main part) but were considering upstairs. I'd have to email them our dates for the exhibiton. But I personally didn't like their upstairs area.

Thistle Hall:

• Advertising: Business cards, signage outside shop, flyers, posters
• Content: Sculpture, taxidermy, photographs of their taxidermy
• How they display work: Hanging photography by hooks, Shelves installed onto the wall and displaying taxidermy, block in the middle of the room displaying taxidermy, 
• People's reactions to art: As I was walking into the gallery a woman was walking out saying I should definitely look around in there
• My opinion of art: I had mixed feelings about these works. I'm not a fan of taxidermy to be honest. I asked the artist if the animals were found or killed and they were found which is okaaaaay... (I'm against hunting, eating animals etc) But the photos of the work were nice. 
• Other Info: The turnover at Thistle Hall is every week. Its booked about 6 months in advance so we have no chance of displaying our work there in time. It costs $160 for a week. 

Gallery Research Plans

Galleries I Plan to Visit this Weekend:

• City Gallery Wellington
• Page Blackie Gallery
• Solander Gallery
• Avid Gallery
• Bartly + Company Art
• Thistle Hall
• Enjoy Public Art Gallery
• Robert Heald Gallery
• Others: A hidden gallery in a shop (I forgot the name but know where it is), Eyeball kicks (I know its not really a gallery but I think its good research)
• Te Papa 

What I'll be Documenting:

• How they advertise -brochures, flyers, posters, website, etc
• Their content
• How they display the work -how it hangs, sits on a table or ground etc
• What they write about the works and how they display that
• If they're selling or just displaying the work
• Watch people and see how they react to certains peices 
• My reactions to art (this should be interesting)

Presentation Rough Draft

Rough presentation draft. When the group meets up on Friday we will fill in the blanks but this is the presentation notes so far. We will discuss and fill in the rest on Friday and draw up the plans. I am happy to put the presentation into powerpoint form also. 

• Group Name:
• Concept, ideas explored, reference points, theme: The overall theme of our exhibition is Transformation through storytelling. 
• Identify team players, their roles, and other people involvedCaitlin Bauer: Art contributor Gin Sparrow: Art contributor Sayydah Penn: Art contributor Roberta Bryce: Art contributor
• How we work together
• Venue (non confirmed, aspirational), how does it relate to theme –doesn’t have to
•  Who is our audience, how do we engage them,We want our exhibition to appeal to all people who enjoy music, storytelling, art and design. We will communicate this idea by each group member choosing a song and responding to it with their chosen media. We will scan and blow up our works then cut them into even pieces of paper. On the opening night of our exhibition we will have our final works on display and these cut up copies mixed up on tables. The audience is then encouraged to mix the pieces of paper up and make a book from them. This is another form of transformation and creates a new story in the process.
•  Are we advertising ourselves Social media, flyers? Posters?
• How do we communicate our project and to whom –advertisement
• Draft budget, show income and expenditure
• Drafts of what might be in the show, drafts of art in the show, draft of how show is set up

     Other Information we could Include:Transformation: Song, art, book

Story Telling: Story of the song by itself, How we interpret the song into our work, a new story created into books (which is very open to interpretation)

Feedback from Tanja and Shannon

• Is there participation from the audience
• Should you choose one song and challenge yourselves to work with it?
• Make music
• What is our story?
• Think about audiences experience
• Musical chairs, the music changes so does the story
• Push beyond four illustrators in a room
• People write their own story

Altered Idea from Feedback:

• Each group member chooses their own song
• They respond however they feel with physical work
• These works are displayed in the exhibition
• We scan and blow up our works and cut them up into even pieces of paper
• People create their own books and stories through these pieces of paper

We are still discussing how we will play our chosen songs in the exhibition (do we loop the four songs- would that be irritating to the audience?, does the audience scan a QR code to play the song to themselves (technical problems?), do we keep our chosen songs private and our stories left to the audience to interperate?

Exhibition Ideas

Rough Ideas:

• Theme of exhibition is music and story telling
• Each person chooses their own song and creates work inspired by it
• Because we are storytellers we will communicate ideas and themes through our work

My Interests, Work etc