Collaboration and the Art Exhibition's opening night

Being part of setting up, organising, and running an exhibition has been quite an experience with many unexpected and wonderful things happening.

One of the most comforting and heartening things has been the amount of interest the exhibition has provoked and the number of people who have been willing and abundantly able to help with the organising of it and thus ensuring its smooth running and success so far.

It has been no mean feat either, getting together work from six artists, the framing of the works (huge thanks goes to my Mum for that as well as the many other things she helped with) organising for people to travel across the country to help with the installation, filming it to produce a DVD (eventually) and live music performances.

The music played live (classical) has proved enormously popular, some very wise artists commented on how having music at such an exhibition like ours enabled those attending to feel free to talk about the exhibits with the music providing a pleasant cover for peoples initial thoughts (without it, thoughts might be embarrassingly amplified!)

It has brought us all closer together, parts of my family and some very amazing friends.

The opening night on Friday 30th October set the tone, and I started to realise how good what we were doing actually was. We developed a mutual appreciation society where each of us has some brilliant and remarkable skills that we all verbally appreciated and we made a collaborative effort. I believe a collaborative art and music exhibition is preferable to a solo show (the pressure of that must be unbearable) but a solo show is one that is more highly regarded in the art world and one that is aspired to by the majority of artists.

Rather than being competitive with one another as artists, it is just brilliant to love and appreciate each and every one of us, as far as I am concerned we are great and on the opening night we were able to talk about our work with other artists and interested people. We all really enjoyed it, its the stuff dreams are made of.