Exhibition- Arranging Artwork.docx

WAYS TO ARRANGE YOUR WORK IN THE EXHIBITION SPACE SURVEY Chronological: Work is arranged approximately in the order that it was produced. This strategy evidences the development of the student skills, which is not assessable in this component, but will establish relationships between sequential works. Formal concerns: Work is grouped along the lines of formal concerns. This could include the media forms that a student has worked in, so that all of their paintings are together in one part of the exhibition, their sculptures in another. Otherwise, work that is concerned primarily with colour and value, for example, might be grouped together, while an interest in texture and pattern is grouped elsewhere, irrespective of when the work was completed. THEMATIC Narrative: The work is arranged in a way that best communicates an overarching theme that runs through the entire body of work, irrespective of when the work was completed. Sub-themes: Rather than having a single theme running consistently, the student might identify a series of related sub-themes and group these accordingly. Sometimes, this manner of presentation can loosely reflect a chronology within which the work was created, as artists often find that their ideas and concepts evolve as they produce work that is sometimes quite divergent from the original starting point.