Creative Strategy: Off The Page Event

Last night was the launch event of Off The Page, an exhibition of the Level 5 students work at Colours May Vary. Along with Adam I was heading up the Hanging Team, whose role consisted of collecting together everyones prints from the OUIL504 module and hanging them in Colours May Vary.

Whilst we didn't have much to do leading up to the event before the final few days, the time in which we did have things to do was stressful indeed. Firstly we had to collects the prints off everyone which in itself was an arduous task due to people not having prints ready or leaving them in random places for us to find. Once we got to Colours May Vary on Thursday the real fun began. Neither Adam or I (who were in charge of the hanging team) have ever put together an exhibition before, so deciding where prints would go and work best was very stressful and frustrating indeed. However after a long Thursday we pretty much had the layout sorted, so all that remained on our part was the actual hanging on the Friday. While this was an easier task it was much more time consuming and tiring. However we finished with a bit of time to spare and the other Teams were left to sort out their side of things well enough that the event went much better than I was expecting.

Here are a few photos of me hanging, stressing out and of the event:



There were several things that we failed to think about until last minute such as a window display, artist/event information for visitors and too few tools. These are all things that would be on my mind a lot sooner if I were to take part in making an event again.