Leeds:
Here is a photo of the entrance way to the granary wharf location. Quite impressive when it's lit up, me thinks.
And here is Emmerdale's Eric Pollard with my work. Not sure why he turned up, but glad he did. Relatives of a soap opera inclination will be happy, I'm sure.
Manchester:
Flickr, here
An evaluation of how it went:
I was really pleased that I'd managed to organise and run this exhibition, relatively unscathed and without interference. Most of the work looked of a high standard, enough to mask that some of it wasn't perhaps as high a quality as I'd of liked. The venue I snatched up was actually amazing, especially after they'd re-done it, painted the floor and the walls for us. I think they thought we were more well renowned then we were and in this sense we got away with that.
Things that perhaps didn't go so well: The turn out of the opening night was pretty good, though I could of done with inviting a few more professionals, it also clashed with more renowned shows LIMN and Nous Vous' 4th Draft. This really limited how many visitors we got.
Turn out after the opening night dwindled pretty quickly, I think this was due to lack of promotion/the expense of continuing promotion. Next time, to do an exhibition of this nature, it's perhaps best to do it for fewer days, maybe 3 and to promote it a lot more efficently, using all available channels to do so.
We weren't allowed to sell work, which is a bit of a shame, I'm not sure what we could do about this other than 'fly under the radar.'
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