Following this week’s meeting with Louise I’ve got an action plan for getting the work under the noses of people who might like to tour the exhibition. I’ve found that my experience of writing these blogs is that if I write it here, then it holds me to doing it. That pressure coupled with the need to write my ACE evaluation by the end of September should spur me to GET ON WITH IT!
Action Plan
Enter individual works into targeted open submission exhibitions. Some of these are pay to enter, so I’ll be very selective with these with the aim of getting the work out to artist-led spaces who might not otherwise come across my work.
Tap into my existing networks. Get information about the work and the desire to tour the work to people within my existing network. See if they can suggest the show to other curators or consider including it in their own programming. Also Louise will do the same with her networks.
Create a Touring information pack. Louise is part of the Touring Exhibitions Group and often programmes exhibitions into her gallery from the database of exhibitions available. She has shown me touring information packs from other exhibitions and venues that provide a potential venue with all the information that they need to decide whether or not to programme the show. I’m going to use these as a template to bring all the information about my show together succinctly but informatively. This can then be listed by the Brindley as a touring exhibition on the TEG website.
Send the touring information pack to speculative contacts. Do some more research about potential venues that might be a good fit for the show and send the information speculatively to them.
