Artlink Exhibition

Exhibition Set-Up

This Friday was the exhibition launch night!! I'm a little sad as I was pretty ill on the night, with the remnants of a cold still gripping my lungs and nose, but I went for around 40 minutes and the turn out was really great!! For a gallery so small I was a little apprehensive over the number of people that would show up, but the small space was packed with artsy-type folk looking to be having a fab time! 

Networking wise I probably let myself down a little as I didn't approach anyone, but that was mostly due to my body being an incubus of bacterial plague that I didn't want to subject anyone to. I didn't really want my professional first impression to be one of exhaustion and ill-health.

The show itself was top notch though! It really got me thinking about how I'm going to package and present my work in the future!! There were a few little tricks other artists had used that I really felt made a noticeable difference.  

Stamped onto the back of Alexandra Snowdon's prints

I really liked this small edition to the back of Alexandra Snowdon's prints, stamped onto the hardboard that each print was back onto I thought it was something so simple and yet so effective! It succinctly communicated that "hand made" element of each print without having to explain it. Anyone unfamiliar with print processes could pick this up and understand straight away it's not a digital print but something hand crafted; so lovely!

The range of work on display was really great too! I'd say most of the works fit into an illustration bracket, so it was awesome to see an exhibition like this run!! Overall this has been a wonderful experience, and the show is still on for another month so there's plenty of time for further exposure and people seeing (and buying!!) my work. It will be interesting to see which prints sell better than others, at this point I'm not too worried if I have lots of prints left over from the exhibition as I'll be able to pop them onto my online Etsy store and sell them from there. But the feeling of someone else stocking your work is something that has filled me with happiness!!