Feedback and Tutor Suggestions

During the opening night it was key to receive feedback and suggestions in order for us to reflect on how are exhibition was viewed and interpreted by the public, and also to develop our curation skills for the future by learning from other peoples opinions and thoughts.

Birmingham City University Students Feedback

Callum - Riba's Magpies painting were really interesting. It was different - good different. Better than he thought it would be. There should have been beer as well as wine. 

Tutors Feedback 

 

 

Mona - It was beautiful and amazing, she was originally worried about how it would look in case it looked tacky but it was beyond her expectations.

Janet - Really didn't like the fabric on the floor, and even took it away from the exhibition at one point. This was also highlighted by John who felt that the fabric and the careful display of everything made the exhibition look slightly like a shop display.
 
John - Reminds him slightly of a circus marquee, it would look better if the fabric was closer together so that there would be a very distinct change between the outside world and the inner world. He questioned how much time we had spent on the actual arrangement of the plinths. He wondered if we had more time, we should start to subtract from the exhibition - take pieces away and see what it looks like without some of the pieces in there. He didn't think it was very ethereal because of the weightiness and the solidity of the plinths, however he did agree that there was a distinct link with the title of going 'through the ether' into this other world where the exhibition was. He commented that it was slightly like an installation. However, he also said that he thought we did the best of what we could within the time frame and worked really well considering it's hard to work in such a large group. The exhibition works, and is really different to what students usually produce.





The majority of our feedback was positive and so that gave me a strong sense of satisfaction from our exhibition. I will take the suggestions on board for future projects and to some extent I do agree that the fabric on the floor could have distracted from the actual artwork on display.