Curating day at Wysing

As my time at Wysing is nearing a close I have one last day to tell you about before the exhibition. The curating day.

Two weeks before our exhibition all the young artists, myself included, went down to wysing to have one and a half days all about curating to inspire us for our own exhibition. We started off with the curator at wysing coming into us to talk to us about curating and give us a chance to ask any questions we may have. This was truly very interesting as curating isn't something that had ever crossed my mind as a career.

After this we split into groups and were shown roughly two dozen items on a table, these ranged from art work to hang on the wall, to little toy animal covered in gold leaf. Basically our aim over the next day and a half was to choose an exhibition space in wysing's grounds and plan and put up our own exhibition. This would inspire us to create our own exhibition in a couple of weeks time.

The first day was spent planning the layout and visualising where everything would go. The second day we assembled our exhibition for the other young artists to view and comment on and for us all to take inspiration from each others way of displaying the same items in different ways.

It was truly inspirational to see the way that the same items could look so different and how a small item in a large space can be more powerful then a space crammed full of items.

So now I bid you farewell, a mere week to the exhibition now, my excitement levels are rising by the minute.    
Au Revoir
Meggie