The final stages.

Advertising 

Geo caching – Elz is a sorting out a massive geochaching treasure hunt. 

It's a shame that the Geocaching didn't work out as there is large geocaching

 community that would have been interested. 

Breeze Festival – could be used to advertise the show. 

We decided to research several advertising prospects such as Breeze festival, LVAF and 

hoped to get a press release with Look North and Local Radio but we ran out of time and, 

in the end, our advertising consisted of leafleting

around Leeds and putting posters up in shops.

We used facebook and twitter to create a run up to the exhibition 

and hoped that an audience would get to know us and want to see the show! We started a website but didn't manage to get this running. I took on the task of making the facebook page as full as possible. 

Elz used our twitter account to form links with local art groups and this was really effective in contacting people that weren't connect to the University. 

Networking

Logistics – company that might help us out - we hoped to network with some

larger companies to achieve some professional advertising but in the end decided that as artists we should take on creative roles ourselves. 

 I regret not taking advantage of the resources around us. 

We got in contact with the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery in the Parkinson Building 

but didn't organise a meeting in time. This is a shame as it would have been helpful 

to have advice on installing the show. 

We had planned to take a visit to Abby House Museum in Kirkstall

to talk about their Leeds exhibition. 

It was a tough decision, but we decided that time was running out

and we had too many commitments. The exhibition was historical and would have informed 

our work but from a less relevant stance as we didn't want the show to be too factual. 

We had found out that Leeds Library has a large archive collection of old photographs and newspapers.

I used the online section of this called Leodis, I looked up photos of the parts of Leeds that I want to paint and used these as a basis for some of my drawings to merge the old and new Leeds. 

Finance and funding

Discussed getting a group bank account to make it easier to pay for communal resources but we decided this was over complicated.  

Elz researched University funding but found that this had to be applied for very far in advance. 

We decided that we would have to keep cost to a minimum and this was helped by our space being free. 

I hope that by publishing the process I can be open with the successes and failures of our exhibition. 

I want to do this to help others in the same situation!