Selecting work and considering the audience

Art and design

The role and impact of curators

Artists as curators

Presentation of work

Reproducing art: postcards, prints and artist editions

Writing an artist statement

Talking about your work

Promotions: how to publicise a show

This teacher-led unit concludes the course with a physical or virtual exhibition. Pupils, having been introduced to curating, will select work based on quality and criteria, explore presentation, and mount and frame their pieces.

Curating an exhibition

The background, setting, or circumstances in which the artwork was created

What does the word context mean when talking about an artwork?

True or false? All artworks in an exhibition must look exactly the same to create coherence.

The number of people who attend the exhibition

How the audience experiences and responds to the exhibition

The way an artist makes their artwork in the studio

Which of these best describes “audience impact”?

To make sure the audience understands and connects with the exhibition

To only choose artworks the curator personally likes

To avoid including artworks from different artists

Why might a curator consider the audience when selecting artworks?

The individual artist’s personal idea within the theme

Match the key word to the correct definition:

Cohesion through destruction and transformation

Match the exhibition example with its method of creating cohesion:

Starter Quiz

What does the word context mean when talking about an artwork?