Exhibitions?!

Nude - Mitchell McIntyre

Exhibitions can be a lot of fun but they can also be nerve racking. Most importantly it is a time to really be yourself and connect with people you are familiar with and those with who you are not. Putting on show works you have created over the previous months for the public to critic is an empowering feeling that can be insightful, proud and humble all at the same time.

My first exhibition was a great success as far as people showing up on the opening night however sales were low, only a few sold. But my second exhibition was completely the opposite, only a few people came to the opening night (I think it was partly because of torrential rain) but over the following weeks it ended up being a sell out show. What I’m saying is that every show is different and not worth the worry but totally worth the enjoyment and memories.

Invaluable advice of which I most bestow upon the first time exhibitor is that it’s a very good idea to write out a speech or at the least a list of the people you must thank for enabling the event to happen. I made the unforgivable mistake of forgetting to thank a sponsor but most of all forgetting to thank my partner who worked tirelessly behind the scenes for weeks prior to the event. Whatever you do/ don’t make the same mistake I did you’ll never live it down. Put them at the top of the list and get them to stand forward and take a bow,  god knows they deserve it by having to put up with an artist (i.e.; egomaniac).