Off the page

Working for off the page was a challenge.
I had to make 5 more of my mobile so that I had some to sell if there was any interest. I hadn't fully thought through how to make many of them. Each one takes quite a long time to make and a lot of labour to cut through all the mount board with a knife. Safe to say after 5 I had a big blister on my hand.

I packaged my work to try and achieve a professional quality. I bought cellophane seal bags and made a head board to hand it on a stand at a shop then I made stickers advertising the fact that its hand made and a quote from pratchett.

Setting up the show I was on the hang team. hanging was interesting seen as we arrived with limited hammers and we had multiple trips into town to pick up stuff we'd forgotten. I got a lot of exercise that day. We needed to get hooks that were non adhesive because there was no where to hang things except off of the furniture and we didn't want to mark any of it.

My job I was in charge of was sorting the work to go into the back for selling. We brought down two  big plastic boxes and a stack of A2 folders. I arranged all of the work alphabetical by last name because that is how we were numbering the work on the walls. I made stick up tabs on each section with the letter and a short list of the illustrators under that section. On the front  of each folder we wrote the name and title of each piece of work including how many copies were inside. We wanted to make finding work as easy as possible for the colours may vary staff because we wanted them to like having us exhibit so there would be chance to do it again at some point.

We got ephemera to fill some of the shelves becuase we wanted to create an atmosphere in the room. I brought lots of paper roses I'd made and a perfume bottle that we put some inside of. We had to use spirit levels to make sure all of the pictures were level and it took two days of re arranging to get everything on the wall looking good. We went through a lot of snacks, I personally bought a pack of biscuits everyday. 

It was a good experience over all it taught us a lot about exhibiting our work to a professional standard. I think if I was to do it again though, to make the hanging job run more smoothly, make a to scale model of the walls and get everyone to send exact dimensions of their work so that we could pre plan were everything would go when moving the  images is a lot less effort.