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Author: Pauline_Adair, Contributing Editor
| How a Life Drawing Group put together a simple but effective Exhibition of their work....
My weekly Life Drawing group - Noosa Life Art Circle - approached our Regional Gallery to ask them to host an exhibition of our work. We have both professional artists and beginners in our Group so this would be quite a challenge to bring the presentation together. Our Group meets once a week in the hall at the rear of the Uniting Church.....and has been doing so for over 8 years now. You might even say we draw religiously! We only have one day off a year.... and that is at Christmas. The gallery explained that there is over a one year waiting list for exhibitions, so we put our names down and prepared to wait. Luckily, only a couple of months went by and the Gallery had a cancellation, allowing us 3 weeks in their annexed gallery. We had about two months to get organized. First we need to decide on a format. Being in a regional gallery, we must conform to a suitable standard of framing, and that meant all frames must be the same. One of our members, a professional sculptor, designed a simple frame in which to display our work. |
 | The backing is masonite... the front is clear perspex. The artwork is sandwiched in between (held in place with a tiny corner of double-sided tape), then screws and plastic washers are put in place to hold it together. The screws are also used to attach the hanging wire. This means they can be hung either landscape or portrait orientation.... and they could also display two or three smaller works in a single frame. The overall size is 900 x 700mm.
The cost of each was very reasonable.... about $45 AUD....and we have them now for our next display. If works were sold, they went without the frame. |
| Below is part of the application we submitted to the Gallery for approval of our display. The perspex frames would dominate the hanging space, and beneath those there would be a frieze which would allow us to display loose works..... just the way we turn them out at our weekly sessions. |
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| They liked the layout! Then we needed something to 'hang our hats on' so to speak....an idea which would could be used to publicize the exhibition and ensure a large viewing audience.
We decided to ask the Gallery if we could draw from a nude life model in the Gallery at the opening, again they liked our idea. Three of us volunteered to do the demonstration. In keeping with exhibitions we have organized before, we would raise some funds for a charity by raffling these artworks, this time in aid of the Queensland Cancer Foundation. One of our members contacted them and arranged for a couple of representatives to be at the opening. A tip for obtaining free publicity: If your exhibition is in aid of a charity the media is more likely to give you a free editorial or plug (as it is sometimes called!). In the past we have had television, radio and newspaper coverage of our art events. |
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