Meeting with John and Guy

Meeting with John Cockshaw and Guy Brady:

Discussing promotion, advertisements and distribution of flyers. Exploring ideas for opening 'ceremony'/event with musical accompaniments, meet the artists?  SATURDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER OPENS - I might have to work so won't be able to be there...

Pricing - Guy needs to work on his pricing - too cheap, especially for originals! Look to John for advice, he's been doing this years. Great tutoring relationship going on, really helpful.

Dolls should be a uniform price across the exhibition to make it easier but they should be more than I usually charge to make room for the 40% commission and the fact that they are specialist OOAK dolls and there will be big Tolkien fans there so I imagine they wouldn't mind spending a little more for a unique Tolkien doll. We're thinking £60-£80...  (I should probably be charging this anyway...)

Since it's John's exhibition, he's paying for all the expenses in printing. This is a really special opportunity for me and Guy (Guy's first and my second proper exhibition) and it's so sweet of John to take us under his wing and guide us through this. He could tell we were both nervous but he's pushing us up and just giving us a place and an opportunity to show what we've got. And brilliant timing too since we're both just going into our final year at uni. Something to take away and maybe build up networks before we start to make post-uni decisions.

Promotional photo shoot: highlighting our passion for fantasy and our creative community together. Having fun in John's garden with his kids watching from the house. It's a shame we couldn't go into the woods to take this but there had just been a thunder storm (my hair is soaked in this picture).
It's a really personal and narrational approach to an exhibition, to show our faces and promote them as a collective of local friends. John's work is often like this and shows himself as a magician in photographs quite a lot. I think it's an exciting and confident way of presenting himself.

Local newspaper! A little feature about the exhibition. Just a small ad with a local audience but still great to see our names in there and start getting the word out there.

We've been getting flyers out into the world with lots of local businesses taking them and posting on Tolkien fan pages as well as local arts pages.