Molly Brocklehurst
'Who Will Provide?' at the Crypt Gallery
For this exhibition, I was selected to be one of the curators - along with Whitney, Pippa, Magda and Belinda. My duties as part of the team have been the following:
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Arranging face to face meetings with the team and communicating via email.
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Communicating clearly with the other team members and artists in our year over the 5 month summer period.
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Setting deadlines for the artists to meet.
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Creating an online submission form for the artists to send over their artwork proposals/ technical interest forms by email.
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Created a document that enclosed all the information submitted by the artists, containing proposals and technical requirements.
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Make executive group decisions about the positioning of all 35 of the artworks in the gallery.
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Working closely in hand with the installation team.
After receiving all of the artist's proposals, we arranged a meeting with the installation team to discuss the allocation of artworks that needed specific locations within the gallery, i.e artworks that were largest in size, artworks that needed plugs and artworks that required the largest amount of installing time.
When we arrived at gallery space, we started to curate the works with regards to their visual impression on the space. We also attempted to group together works that we thought incorporated similar themes and works that responded well to each other.
Over all, I think that the efforts made from the curation team paid off. As a team, it was incredibly important to listen each other's opinions, as well as being open to experiment with different arrangements of artworks within the gallery so that the most successful combination could be resolved. Working long hours in a challenging environment would inevitably take its toll on us but we managed our disagreements in a professional manner by remaining calm and taking the time for everyone to say what they had to say.
Photographs taken from the exhibition