Reaching my audience

My previous photography exhibitions have all been static, framed prints hanging on walls around the foyer of the local theatre or in the gallery or exhibition space of a local arts centre. Can I find other ways of engaging the audience? Maybe online videos, to which I give links or QR codes from descriptions on the wall and I can describe my work, even show the making process, that they could be accessed while walking round the exhibition. I have some videos on Vimeo, but that site is limited, so I shall either put them on Youtube or a website.

If I can do this method, I could probably make videos of the exhibition, perhaps even with some audience feedback, and put the exhibition online. This would be a chance to try out my video editing skills from the Berlin workshop in August .

The other thing is; during this module I have been trying to disseminate my work.

I have responded to a call for papers,
- https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/2023/07/23/a-possible-paper/
contacted three local places to hold an exhibition there,
- https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/2023/10/18/flowerfield-arts-centre/
- https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/2023/10/18/riverside-theatre/ ü
- https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/2023/10/06/melting-pot/ ü
another in England, for an exhibit at a ‘Lingering Memories’ exhibition
- https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/2023/09/10/lingering-memories/
and the gallery of the university in Canada where I did the MSc in physics that is central to my work.
- https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/2023/10/17/contacting-the-visual-arts-gallery-at-brock-university/
Successes – I have been granted a solo exhibition at the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine from 3^rd to 24^th March 2024 and I’m on the Waiting list for participating in the Emerging Artists exhibition in Artcetera galley in Belfast in Spring 2024.
Failure – my two submissions for chapters in the ‘Writing Artefacts’ book did not make the cut, but at least they sent a nice email to inform me.