Monday, October 3, 2011

Crompton 'Salon' 2012??

I've been giving a lot of thought about how to organise our exhibitions next year. The difficulty is that, as many of you are aware, the pub is on the market - as a result it's a bit tricky to programme when we don't know whether we'll still be around. We have a drawing exhibition on currently - organised by Crocus Gallery and the fantastic Green Door Printmaking will be showing during November & December - but I need to make a few decisions about next year... (Those who I've already booked will still have their exhibition as agreed)
What I'm considering is dividing the pub wall space into sections (6/7) and along with the 2 craft cases offer on a monthly first come first served basis. The artist is responsible for hanging their work and taking it down (as usual we'll look after sales where possible, at 0% commission). What is shown is completely up to the artist (with the usual provisos) so it may be new work or work which is gathering dust and needs to be cleared out to make some space. (The idea came about as I have quite a lot of work which is no longer relevant to what I'm now doing and it would be good to try to sell some). It can be a single piece of work or it can be 'piled high'. At the beginning of every month we'll have an 'opening' for the new cycle of work. Hopefully this will result in a really eclectic range of work.
The fee for a space will be an entry for our mail art exhibition which will still occupy the pool room space :) More details soon - but in the meantime can all you artists out there let me know what you think?

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