Exhibition Design and Delivery Short Course
Course description
Course overview
Join Exhibition Design and Delivery and be guided by your tutor through the practical and logistical processes involved in staging an exhibition on this 1-day course. The course starts with the initial concept and research, moving to agreements and layout and finally, to the hanging of artworks. We will also advise you on insurance, public liability and health and safety requirements in public spaces.
As well as developing your knowledge of innovative exhibition design, it's a chance to exchange ideas with the rest of the group. Students are welcome to bring along ideas in relation to future exhibitions that they would like to or will be organising.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for artists, craftspeople or anyone eager to learn about the practical side of organising an exhibition.
Key information
Topics covered
- History of Curatorial Practice and Exhibition Design
- Stages of developing an exhibition
- Starting points, intentions and research methods
- Exhibition themes, selecting artworks and layout
- Venues, galleries, partnerships and contracts
- Funding and calculating budgets
- Publicity and the press release
- Borrowing work, loan forms and condition checking
- Best practice in art handling. Health and safety, risk assessments and public liability
Learning outcomes
- Capable of organising an exhibition from start to finish
- Appreciating a successful exhibition design layout
- Be aware of the procedures between galleries and artists
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- Notebook and Pen
- Memory Stick
Tutor
Rosa Abbott
Rosa Abbott is a writer and curator based in London. She has experience working with both public and private spaces, having held curatorial positions at VISUAL, Carlow and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin. She has also worked independently on curatorial projects, most recently at Lismore Caste Arts (2023), Austrian Cultural Forum (2022), Jupiter Woods (2021) and Zabludowicz Collection (2019), and has written texts for organisations including Garage Museum, Rotterdam (2021), Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2021), Château La Coste, France (2019), The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (2014). Alongside Roisin Agnew and Iarlaith Ni Fheorais, Rosa is a co-founder of the curatorial collective Liquid, which explores expressions of intimacy in public and private realms. Rosa has given tours, talks and lectures to students of various third-level institutions, including Goldsmiths, Birkbeck, Chelsea, Central Saint Martins, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, NCAD, IADT and TU Dublin. She holds an MA in Culture, Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins (2019) and BA(Hons) English Literature/History of Art and Architecture from Trinity College Dublin (2012).
Kirsten Cooke
Dr Kirsten Cooke is an artist-curator and has co-authored the projects: Material Conjectures, KollActiv and House of Hysteria. This year Cooke completed her PhD in curatorial practice at the University of Reading and she has delivered papers/written texts for projects in London, Paris and LA. Cooke's practice experiments with different forms of staging and deploys architectural environments to choreograph artworks.
Recent exhibitions and projects have been staged at kynastonmcshine (The Old Police Station, London), Beaconsfield (London), Sonce Alexander gallery (LA), and the Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris). In 2016, Cooke has staged the exhibition and performance programme Pressure Chamber: Nematodes at ArtLacuna (London) and will be curating the following exhibitions as part of her co-authored projects: Concrete Plastic in September at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LA) and Abandoned Temporary Treatment Facility in October at Beaconsfield (London).
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