Having gone to the effort and expense of creating an exhibition, I wonder about the possibility of using this again in a new space, at a different location and at a different time. Might this become a touring exhibition? This would give me an opportunity to build upon the experiences gained during the hosting of my exhibition at Leith Makers. Might there be considerations on holding it in the same city and running into the issue of some of my audience having seen the exhibition already? I can imagine that it might be necessary to shift the exhibition to a new town with a different population. Next is an exciting part of trying to make my exhibition work in a new space. When I attended an exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery at Edinburgh University, I was struck by the spaces and how big some of them are. My exhibition in its current form would be lost in a small corner of such a space.  In such a space, I would need far bigger works. Interestingly, the exhibition I saw there used huge projected video works on very large screens.  It would be a very different presentation of my work to incorporate projections for all of my work. Another way forward, was I to gain access to such a space, would be to reimagine my exhibition and recreate it. This point about gaining access to the exhibition space is interesting as I wondered if I enrolled to study at this institution if it might open doors to such spaces. A consideration for moving an exhibition from one space to another is in packing, transporting, unpacking and assembling work. Who might do this? How far might the exhibition travel? This is an important question given the see-saw, which is bulky and very heavy.  I think the idea of a touring exhibition is maybe quite advanced but moving from one venue to another is perhaps a two-step tour and any extra hops will follow the same pattern so maybe this might be possible. I found a guide of standards for touring exhibitions by the Museums Libraries Archives Council, which, although aimed at museums, has useful information. (Standards for touring exhibitions –, 1995) Touring Exhibition Group (TEG) have information on exhibitions, venues and more (Touring Exhibition Group, no date). And Shirley Read’s book Exhibiting Photography has lots of information on approaching galleries, exhibition spaces and more (Read, 2014)

References

Read, S. (2014) Exhibiting Photography A Practical Guide to Displaying Your Work. 2nd edn. Abingdon: Focal Press, Taylor & Francis Group.

Standards for touring exhibitions – (1995) Museums and Galleries Commission. Available at: https://collectionstrust.org.uk/resource/standards-for-touring-exhibitions/ (Accessed: 22 January 2025).

Touring Exhibition Group (no date). Available at: https://theexhibitionsgroup.org.uk/ (Accessed: 22 January 2025).