Practical hints & tips

Help is at hand! Organising an exhibition requires some clear-headedness and planning but, approached with sufficient time, can be great fun and very rewarding. We have prepared resource guides that can be downloaded and used as a set of useful documents. These need to be supplemented by the organiser’s own notes and spreadsheets (if using)

ERTF relies on its members to identify and research suitable venues for exhibitions. The checklist which can be found HERE is designed to help you ask an initial set of helpful questions when you visit a venue. Please complete the form as fully as you can and take some photos. Then please send the form

Some hints and tips about organising a Members’ day

personal research for ERTF exhibitions There is no right and no wrong way to research your designs and interpret exhibition themes. Your pieces must be genuine and original, they must come from within and, while you might be influenced by other artists, the nature of art is that it should give individual voice to its

Presentation of your work   Ideally the presentation of work should be considered at the design stage.  We often don’t think enough about the presentation of our work. We are so pleased to have it finished that we don’t leave sufficient time for this very important part – the presentation. Try to allow at least

Packaging your work for ERTF exhibitions Each submitted exhibition entry must be placed in a separate fabric bag with handles and large enough to hold the piece and any accompanying packaging (but please keep latter to an absolute minimum and avoid if possible).  Each bag must be securely labelled with your name, title and photo of your work firmly

Pricing work is often awkward!  Here are some tips:   1.    Do research on comparable work. Visit exhibitions to see how other textile artists price their work in general for similar disciplines, locations, sizes of galleries, clientele, etc Use ERTF conferences to network and ask others how they go about pricing their work for sale 2.    Creating

WORKSHOP/TALK ORGANISATION Introduction ERTF members meet twice a year: in the spring for a Members’ Day/AGM and in the autumn for a Workshop and talk. Unlike the former, the latter are generally open to non-members. Members’ days are organised in turn by different geographical areas within ERTF and co-ordinated by Committee Liaise (Jacky Glyde). There

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