Exhibition organised from:31st may to 30th June

2/10/09 After lesson with Anthony.
After having a lesson with Anthony today i told the class for the first time that i had an exhibition organised at the:
The Four clocks in Bishop Auckland from the 31st of may till the 30th June.
I have no evidence of Organising this even because it was a simple case of walking in and booking a date (no paper work or e-mails).
the four clocks is a renovated church within the centre of Bishop Auckland, supporting the community with youth projects and activities for all ages.The address can be found bellow:

The Four Clocks Centre, 154A Newgate Street, Bishop Auckland,County Durham DL14 7EH. Give us a call on: 01388 609 852

Here i have provided you the link to the four clocks main website where i will be hosting my gallery:http://www.durhamweb.org.uk/fourclocks/what.htm

The gallery area is nothing flash it is a little cafe area where peoples work is displayed, and can be bought. But so long as it gets my name into the public a little event like this is fine for me.
The reason i organised this gallery event, really is to see peoples reactions to my work and there views(to see if my work can survive in this busy 20th C)

As i said earlier the lesson which i have just had with my class and Anthony we were discussing ,prices, presentation ,the images that should be entered etc.

Price wise? I had originally decided on pricing my images at about £22-£25 but after talking to my class i realised that was a rather low cost so i have decided to price them ranging from about £3o onwards.Anthony explained that sometimes when people see a cheep price they expect a cheep product, therefore sometimes restraining from buying the product. And that theory also works the other way around as well that, expense shows time, quality and sometimes simply being overpriced.

Frames?I had originally decided on clip frames but after seeing the horror on Anthony's face I thought it mite be best to not do that. My theory behind this was that rather than having a frame which people do not like or "doesn't match a room" i thought what better than clip frames there cost effective and also allows the buyer to later choose what frame would suite them. But after the discussion with the class they all agreed that when a customer buys a product they want it finished and sorted with, rather than having to buy another frame later on. But then we have the dilemma of would it match peoples rooms and houses. So after we had a discussion on how photographers present there work within galleries, i have decided on the image to then be surrounded by a photo mount then finally a simplistic black frame.

Again after talking to the class i have decided:
*I will have business cards printed and ready for people to take with them if there interested in my work
* I would like to aim to have a website set up by this point.
*I will have an explanation of my work below the framed image
*a smaller copy of the image in case the framed image had been sold and taken away
*And i will also state on the description that If image has been sold and the customer is interested, that orders for that image can be made if they contact me personally.

You also have a choice of a day to host a small gathering and present the work to people so i think i will be making invites, and inviting people who are interested in my work.