While my artist and I are still reordering pieces and working on the sculpture, we need to keep in contact with the gallery, allowing me to learn what the industry standards and requirements are.
This includes communicating the scale, material and names of the works (shown in the 2nd image above), filling in the information and editing the document which my artist has helped me a lot. There was also a lot of back-and-forth communication due to small errors, such as the wrong works documented in the work list or names of the works.
Image 1 and 3 are all from planning for curation, where the gallery curation team sends us a few rented floor plans based on their gallery and the work that was chosen to be exhibited. We ended up choosing option 2 which is shown on the image, since it allows some specific work to be the focus of the exhibition. I’m very lucky that my artist would constantly listen to my opinions and take them in consideration as part of the decision, which helped me a lot as part of the learning experience. The last image is an image that I searched up for my artist to send to the curation team, where she wants a hospital bed to be placed in the gallery as a part of the curation to put one of the works. This whole experience is very new to me since its my first time being involved in contacting the gallery and partaking in making decisions along with observing how people in the field work.
Shipping and packaging are also another significant aspect that takes place in international artists’ careers. I learnt valuable things about the shipping process, shipping companies, insurance on artwork, standard policies and basic communications though this while helping my boss to ship installations to Singapore for an art exp. However, my main job during this was to section installations into parts and wrap them in the most shock-absorbing way possible to avoid damage. These are defiantly some skills that I could adapt in my future career path.
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