Opening night- Exhibition

The exhibition night went extremely well and I was happy my project was a success the freebies were taken, the opening was great sadly I didn’t get my high quality camera along to take the photographs, I however I still managed to capture some photographs.   

 The room had some interesting projects. I was happy my project as it was a success the freebies were taken, I’ve had praise from post-degree students, people who were interested in art and artists who came out and told me that I had really great work, it was definitely a highlight to the exhibition.

 The business cards were taken, I designed my business card in a multi-functional way they could be used as a book mark as well, and they took all I had supplied for on the opening day, I left a batch in my car just in case I needed to re-stock, these second set are to be used on the other day, I’m schedule for the exhibition, but I’m still happy that 75% of them were taken. I’m so glad that I Plenty of interested audiences. 

Exhibition day - last days of preparations.

Tuesday 30^th June we started placing in our portfolios in the rooms, we put them on the set locations we all agreed on,  but certain areas were empty, the reason behind this was that some of the posters and works the students were tasked with designing weren’t up to the full potential and have been taken down.

With the deselected projects, and the empty space, because of not having enough works in the other room which made the room look really dull and simple, we had to close a room on Wednesday 1^st July; we moved everything from the closed room to the other room. I mean we had one complete room that look incredibly well made, but I felt like we could have two nicely made rooms, but I was not that surprised, people wanted to keep on altering ideas, everyday which mainly cost us a lot of time, and that’s the main issue I thought.

The only problem with me is an individual in class or someone who wanted to pull a joke or prank which I’m still slightly furious about.

The overall room did look great, we added new lights that fit behind the skirting, so it wouldn’t look like we didn’t give much thought into it and neither would it distract the audience that much; the exhibition room looked very aesthetic in the eyes of the audiences. 

Final days - before the exhibition

The Last final touches were set, the LED lights had finally arrived, and the little touches of the lights looked very visually appealing and could help make the portfolios and self-projects look more interesting. The idea of the flooring was scrapped and is going to be replaced with carpeting. Hopefully the carpet will complement the rest of the room. The computers were finally up and running too, the logo was ready; everything was set up for the Collective rooms. Hopefully the room will capture the people’s attentions.

My favorite part of the rooms are probably the feature wall, and the hanging table, those things will stand out most definitely, hopefully it won’t distract the viewers’ attention too much and not keep an eye out for the students work. The whole exhibition was a new learning experience, it was stressful, but it had its ups, I mean it was fun and interesting at the same time I am very much happy with the end result.

So finally it came up to clearing up things, and recycling them the fun stuff, people know, after the exhibition is closed all this has to be dismantled. I really hope they keep the feature wall, I’d be mad if they take it down, because it looks so great up there, than just that plain white wall. However, we will be dismantling after all this, so all that hard work, gone. I wonder how we are getting stuff out thinking about it, but I guess there’s going to a lot of sawing and cleaning involved.

Also here are some cool photos of the pre-to-present photos. 

Day 11-12 - final touches

Flooring was something we were struggling with till the very end; someone came up with the idea of painting the floors charcoal black. I personally didn’t like the idea, I told some others I didn’t like the idea, but who knows it might turn out good. I was helping with the finishing touches inside the room, while the others were doing other roles, just in case we needed to hang things, test proofing and all that other good stuff to make sure the room won’t fall apart, but thankfully the room passes the test, the hanging table, is pretty much secure, that’s what was worrying me most, hopefully no one decides to think it’s a place to sit down. 

Day 10 - Exhibition Polishing off

Today we decided to start coating the wood with varnish, I honestly liked the old natural look to it, but it was not a bad idea and if the majority of the students agree it has to be varnished, than let it be varnished. At the end of the day, although intoxicating it might have been the pallets did have a nice new personality to them.

In the other room we were finishing the sanding off everything was finally coming together, and hopefully it would stay like that this time.

The end result was pretty cool. At the end of the day, everyone could tell that the rooms are finally coming along nicely; it was a much better and cleaner result. 

Exhibition construction - day 7-9

Eventually the idea helped us construct other things that fit with the design of the room such as the railings and tables, both of which took time to construct, we had the idea of putting a very similar theme to the other room, and we used different shapes which helped make the room more interesting in approach. Everything was meant to be constructed out of natural objects such wood or metal and the pallets was a great asset for the theme. We made the table hang by cables; the table fit perfectly, looks interesting and caught plenty of passerby’s attention.

Exhibition construction - day 4-6

We decided to use construction tools in order to create these pallets into usable stands. The stands are going to be used for the use of placing our portfolio. This idea was a way to make the use of these pallets more interesting, the original concept for the use of the pallets was to idea was to cover the windows with these installments, but it grew into a more creative and artsy idea and we adapted it to other ideas to help create a more favorable feeling across the room. 

Pallets were later put in smartly to level the average height, in order for the audience to feel comfortable by the way the pallets were constructed. This was in order when taking out the presented work and putting it back on.