3.3 Exhibition Trip 26/8/2008

Location: Gallery 5, Canberra Museum and Gallery.
Date: 26/8/2008
Time: 14:40pm

Overview of Exhibition:

This Exhibition continues the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Canberra Museum & Gallery's Opening in Feburary 1998. This Series of exhibitions, drawing on CMAG's Permanet Collection of photographic Works.

Assessment of Design:

Entry:
Easy and clear to see, nice entrance to exhibition space with the glass wall and doors, printed information on the glass looks like a very professional exhibition. Navigation to entrance from entry to the gallery was not clear but not overly complicated.

Lighting:
Was professional, varied from work to work, professionally setup and aimed at works.

Works:
The images where impressive, however the frames varied on each work which i felt didn't help, Sizes where different which wasn't a bad issue, spacing was varied from even to uneven spacing. Some works didn't have frame's at all. I didn't feel the exhibition worked as well as it could have because of this factor.

Movement:
the design of the space is easy to navigate through. You could entre either entrance and the direction was easy. There where no boards in the middle which made you have circle around again to see the images you missed at the start.

Improvements to be made:
The white walls helped the images, however i felt that a grey background would have worked better for the exhibition.
Better directions to the right gallery in the museum and all works should have the same frames.

Artists On Display:
Oliver Cotton, David Paterson, Arthur Wicks, William Yang, Matt Kelso, Marcica Lockhead, Denice Ferris, Rob Little, Marzena Wasikowska and Ted Richards.

Note: works all varied, vastly different images. Most works where framed nicely. Rob Littles 'Colour Lenticular Photograph' is amazing, very different too all the other works. Arthur Wicks circular Montages are very interesting and different from anything i've ever seen.