It's up and finished!

After the stress of yesterday, we all went away to sew the small acetates together. We decided to have them in lines of 4,5 and 6 as it would give different levels and wouldn't just look like a curtain. So this morning we made our way to our space to put them all up. As the tutors were meant to be coming at around 10.30am, we went earlier so everything was up and they could see it finished instead of being all over the place. It didn't take us too long to hang them all up, we just decided where to put them and then got on with it. The owners of the shop had already got spot and standing lights out for us, so we explored where the lights would work best. We wanted light to shine through the acetate and fill the room with colour so we experimented and finally  found a place we were all happy with. I'm really, quite pleased with our exhibition. It looks powerful; the acetate faces in front of the boards add more distortion and the stained  glass effect with the light shining through adds warmth and mood to the room. 

When waiting for Eleanor and Robin to come and see our work, I tried to keep myself busy as I was a little nervous, therefore I took quite a few photos. I think our work looks even better photographed as you can focus on certain faces  and blur the rest. But I eventually had to face the tutors...THEY LIKED IT!! Success! I was so pleased that they liked our exhibition;  after last weeks tutorial I was half anticipating they would come in and make us take it down! However, they didn't, they actually liked it!! The only thing they commented on was that they thought we needed a sign and a bit of information about our work, maybe put it on a blank wall to fill some space. Apart from that, it was good! 

Even though I had  already made posters and they were put up in various places, I decided  to make another one tonight. I wanted to use a more powerful image from today as it could draw more people in. I've emailed it to tutors, inviting them along and also sent it to members of the group to put up. Last week we produced a facebook,event so I think we've done quite well with advertising.  We'll just have to see how popular it actually is!