Bargate Duty

Taken from my old PD book

The supeverising went well enough, we had almost 100 guests, and we made the most money in a single day, since the private viewing. The day consisted of Lucy, Claudia and I for the first 3 hours sitting around keeping an eye on things, and around 2 or 3 o-clock Claudia was replaced with Rebecca. The gallery was cold and the lack of a working toilet made it a bit miserable. There were some nice moments where a few interested people came in and started asking about the work. Though the money we have raised so far is not nearly enough to reach our target of about 3000 pounds to have a London degree show, it was nice to be able to say we made more in our day than the others. After standing in that old building for  6 hours, your realized two things: A. we should really have worn some warmer clothes, and we should have brought some form of entertainment, such as a radio. The Bargate Exhibition served as a good template for our own upcoming degree show. Teaching us the importance of advertisement (as one of the patrons visiting told us that although he was impressed with the exhibition it "was unclear where it was and what exactly was being displayed"). It also gave us some practical experience in hanging and indeed how to try and sell some of our merchandise. On the whole it was a good experience, the lessons of which we will have to remember for next time.Though the exhibition was not really helpful in terms and creating a FMP, but more in terms of planning the degree show.