At the end of the first project of third year, we had the opportunity to exhibit our work at Walcot Chapel. A place that we were familiar with and have previously exhibited in before in second year. We knew the space now and how we could display our work, so a core group of us, the exhibition team that was similar to last time, started working really hard over a week to bring everyone’s work together. This exhibition was one that we did from scratch, we organised ourselves as an exhibition team and gave each other different jobs to do so that it made the task at hand easier and quicker. All of us in the team helped to put up the exhibition including the putting together of the boards, nailing and hanging work into the walls and setting up the lights; we had to think of everything ourselves for this exhibition which was quite a big task as we had had the help of James in our previous exhibition. I was a part of the curation team again as I expressed how much I really enjoyed being a part of deciding where work would go in relation to what it was and where the light was. I decided that Robyn’s large sticky print and sculptured hand (which was on a plinth) would look effective in the corner of the room nearest to the window to maximise the way that the lighting hit her work. I also thought that this would be a good statement piece to see when the audience walked around the corner. I feel as though there was a definite positive change between the exhibition at the end of second year to this exhibition as you could see that the year was more experimental with the materials that they were printing on and definitely thought about how they were going to exhibit their work a lot more. 

A curator is: responsible for assembling, cataloguing, managing and presenting/displaying artistic collections. We were given the task of choosing from people’s large mass of work and deciding which would fit in best with the rest of the exhibition space. This was both good fun and hard work as we didn’t want to let anyone down by telling them that their work didn’t necessarily make it into the exhibition. We tried to come at this job as fair as possible so that everyone who wanted work in the space had it. We also asked people which of their work they would prefer to put into the exhibition so that they got a say of what went in. I think that, as a team, we worked particularly well to work together and be as professional as possible. 

We were really happy with the turnout at the opening night of the exhibition as it felt as though all of our hard work actually paid off. Having people coming to see our work was a positive step foreword and made us all feel like our work was getting exposure. The whole chapel was full of people from the industry and our friends coming to support us. The fact that we were able to stand and celebrate all of the work we had done in the first time made us all feel the worth of doing it. I feel that this has helped us to tackle organising the London degree show.