Our Exhibition space

Selection of Museum cabinets

Advertisement details. Feel free to edit (by cal)

Advertising the exhibition itself:

                

There will be posters and leaflets placed around various locations with in the south west of England (Devon & Cornwall). The largest of which will be on bus stops. The other posters could be displayed around streets in city/town centres. There will be leaflets advertising the exhibition place in various places related to the arts. This can include public studios, galleries, art equipment shops, art colleges, perhaps universities in general. These leaflets and posters will advertise the exhibition it’s self and will be targeted to anyone over the age of around 17. They will be simplistic yet have enough information on to give the viewers a brief understanding of what the exhibition is. There will also be some form of address on the advertisement so people can find out more about the exhibition.                                                                                                                                                                          There will then be different leaflets designed to attract young children to the exhibition as the downstairs part of the exhibit is very much a hands on/ interactive project, with the chance for children to get involved. These leaflets will have less writing and more imagery that will attract the attention of children more so than the other leaflet would. These could be placed in primary schools or cafes/galleries/studios where adults would be able to pick them up for there children. As well as leaving leaflets and posters around the place we will also put advertisements in certain art magazines or local newspapers telling people about the exhibition. This could attract people who perhaps wouldn’t normally go to the places listed above. Another option is to advertise on local radio stations. Again this means people will hear about the exhibition without even leaving there home.

Advertising the competition for artists:

Rather than advertising the exhibition its self, these posters will advertise the opportunity for up and coming artists who haven’t yet had a real exhibition but are looking to promote there work. As the target audience is for up and coming artists the perfect place to advertise this would be at art colleges, not just in the south west but all over England. The reason this would be beneficial is because artists are always looking for ways to exhibit there work and would be willing to travel a short distance to do so. Where as advertising the general exhibition out of the south west may not work as well because people may not be willing to travel a distance just to view an exhibition. Other places we could advertise this would be similar to those listed above i.e. studios, galleries etc.  Again, these advertisements would state what the general theme of the exhibition is and a link to how they can enter. 

Very rough sketches of what the flyers may look like

Very rough draft. But that general style? Colour, font etc. Maybe a picture in the top right? not sure what i was doing with the bottom

Again very rough. Also, we need a title to the exhibition to write on the flyers?

[drafty - almost done]

We propose to create an exhibition for Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, titled Rejuvenation, which intends to explore the notion of human remains and the snippets of life which are left behind for those that follow us, whether they are carried through genetics, memories or objects - all of which bear an important link between the past and present.

We will make a call for artists, posted in universities, studios and in art magazines, to submit new works responding to the theme as part of an emerging artists' competition. Those whose responses best encapsulate the theme and its relationship to the set environment for the exhibition will attain the opportunity to display their pieces. The responses must show an insightful and intriguing examination of the past, conveyed in a unique manner that will let 'Rejuvenation' demonstrate how substantially, if subtly, mankind’s history resonates within everyday life.We will encourage the entrants to consider closely the potential audeiences and their involvement in the show.

Once the artworks have been selected those that can will be displayed in a specifically interactive manner, in accordance with the museum and cooperatively with the artists themselves. The art will fit comfortably into its environment, augmenting the importance of the museum's artefacts as well as its own, and the fundamental significance of the things that have brought us to this place at this moment in time.

Ideally the pieces would be made from a number of mediums, in various forms. We would hope to encourage an audience from those who would not typically visit either museums or art exhibitions by making the language and presentation accessible. One of the steps taken towards this, and to engage the visitors, would be making the ground floor of the exhibition entirely interactive.

Plymouth City Museum houses myriad historical artefacts and animal remains. This makes it an apt environment to display our chosen art works; the theme responds to the perpetual subject of life and death, which is ingrained within the role of the museum, a surrounding which would in turn better encapsulate the pervasiveness of theme. The museum has already hosted an exhibition – Human Cargo - that dealt with the movement of people and their roles in within the worlds they inhabit, often separate to our own. Rejuvenation would follow this, looking also at temporal movements; how we carry ourselves through life and what continues afterwards.

The museum itself would benefit from an increased awareness from the public of its vast archives and a heightened emphasis on the educational value of the institution and it’s collections through the interactive ‘workshops’ – chances for the visitors themselves to contribute to the exhibition – and talks from the artists that displayed in the show about their practice. We would ask that students from the universities around Plymouth, or volunteers with some relative experience come forward to invigilate the exhibition.

PLEASE edit at will if there's any  problems or improvements, or if there's more awesome ideas to add (: We need to get a timescale sorted out so I can say how long we'd give from first sending out the call for artists to displaying their work, and how long the exhibition would go on

Rejuvination/Reanimation

An exhibition that intends to explore the nature of our lives and the remains they leaves behind - whether they be physical, metaphorical or metaphysical. We live on in many ways after our death; perhaps spiritually but almost certainly as memories and objects that we have owned and and marked in both subtle and clear ways. It can takes decades, or even centuries for a person to completely sink into oblivion.


The relics we leave behind particularly serve as records of our 'progress', representing us at particular times, over certain periods that may span a lifetime or just a few days. It is this notion of records that particularly ties the exhibition to it's location in a museum where the remains of the long dead rest alongside the movement of the living, carrying on the life of their creators and animators in the consciousness of their stream of observers. The exhibition of records can take many forms, all of which preserve in some way the people or moment that created it.

Top flight of Plymouth Museum