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Please not:

• Unit 3, currently established as 'Slippery Space' has no standard roof lighting. You will required to supply your own spotlights. Some art work may suffer from the lack of light, whereas it may be beneficial to others.

Perhaps a Salon-esque Vibe?

Union 105 of Chapeltown opened a commemorative exhibition last month. Commemorative not only of numerous local artists in the LS7 and LS8 area, but also of the French Salon exhibition, first established in the 18th century.

I'm sure many are aware of the particular curation of the Salon exhibition, hanging many works clustered together in an almost celebratory effect.

However, on the topic of our level two exhibition, Lost Property that's due to kick off next week, and thinking in the case of curation, perhaps there are a few features of the Salon exhibition appropriate for our consideration.

As to why I think certain characteristics of the Salon would be so appropriate is simply the lost property theme we've all agreed to employ. Exactly how would the interior of a lost property room if it were, for some very strange reason, filled with lost artworks? Most probably stacked on top of each other, jumbled together around the edge of the floor space, perhaps a little numbered tag hanging off each one.

Obviously, I'm suggesting we take the whole lost property thing that literally. Yet, what if we were to employ a similar kind curation as the Salon. Clustered, but not jumbled; in no way discrediting the artworks.

However, I did hit a slight problem when pondering over this idea. How many works due to be exhibited are NOT going to be two-dimensional works? How many students have requested space, other than wall-space to exhibit their work? Quite a lot. I think I can remember all of two works at the Union 105 Salon exhibition tucked away in the corner or against a wall somewhere, and therefore, perhaps its such not a viable idea.

Although, there was another feature in this exhibition I thought may be a credible idea for our show. Each of the works in the Salon were numbered, instead of the name of the artist, their piece, and the date of its creation displayed under each of numerous artworks.

Considering we too, have many artists exhibiting within the same show, and not only displaying there works but stacks of promotional material, which are most probably in great danger of littering the art space, maybe we should utilize a similar kind of numbering system?

Could this be where your found index drawers come in, Emily?