Work Experience, The Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery, 28- 31 August 2012

I have just finished a second week of work experience working with The Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery, helping to organise the upcoming solo exhibition featuring the work of Reg Cartwright, who has successfully exhibited his work several times before with the gallery. His work values the traditions of British Modernism, working primarily with still life, using familiar objects such as jugs, plates and flowers 'as a pretext for examining complex spatial relationships. His paintings are less about the objects he paints and more about achieving a balanced and pleasing composition, attaining this by flattening perspective, omitting non- essential details and focusing on tone.'
Throughout the week (28st- 31st August) i helped to display all of his work in the gallery and seeing which pieces worked well side by side. Once the exhibition was initially displayed, i professionally photographed all of his paintings for the gallery's website and editted the website with information about the exhibition to inform the public. I really enjoyed this work placement as it has given me the chance to see the amount of work involved in putting an exhibition together, both physically as well as making sure the exhibition is well publicised. The exhibition is being shown from the 1st to 23rd September 2012.

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Work Experience

I will soon be finishing my first year of academic study at university, with a whole four months before i begin my second year at the end of September. During this time, i have acquired some work experience at The Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery, which is down Trinity Street in Cambridge.

Im really looking forward to getting to know what it would be like to work in a gallery. I am working for two weeks in total, from the 18th June to the 22nd June, and also from the 28th August to the 31st August. These two weeks are 'change-over' weeks, where the work displayed in the gallery is taken down and new work is put up. Some of the tasks i will be expected to do in this time is take down the work, package it safely and carefully, store it, clean the gallery between the change-over and put up the new work making sure the work is displayed correctly and professionally. Other duties include labelling all the work (artist name, date, price) and making sure that is correct, helping to write and organise biographies for the artists exhibiting, and dealing with public enquiries.

I will be assisting in two change-overs. The first will be for a 'Mixed Summer Exhibition' and 'Cambridge Scenes', and the second will be 'Reg Cartwright: New Paintings'. I think it will be interesting for me to see the difference between putting an exhibition together for a group of artists and an exhibition for a solo show.

If you want to find out more information about the gallery, you can visit their website at: www.cambridgegallery.co.uk.