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[EXAM] - Role of a curator - Please mark my response :)

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Yendall:
I would greatly appreciate it if someone could mark my response out of 8!b) Discuss the role of the curator or artist in displaying the artworks in each exhibition/gallery space that you identified in part a of this question.
Galleries I have visited:
* Exhibition I: Fred Williams' 'Infinite Horizons' - The National Gallery of Victoria
* Exhibition II: Sam Spratts' 'Sam Spratt Illustration' - http://www.samspratt.comThe curator of a gallery is solely responsible for the oranisation of an exhibition and the gallery’s space. At the National Gallery of Victoria, the role of the curator is extended when dealing with a particular exhibition. Earlier in the year an exhibition entitled ‘Infinite Horizons’ showcased Fred Williams’s retrospective of works. The curator would have had to organize the gallery in a particular manner to engage with the audience and present a fluent timeline of Williams works. The curator would’ve decided the title of pieces, the placement of pieces, the distribution of small and larger pieces, the eye levels of the pieces and the color and height of the walls. In this particular exhibition, when entering the gallery the viewer is presented to artworks from the beginning of his life. Each of the pieces is centered on the wall at the median eye-level in order to maintain optimal and effective viewing. The proportion of the pieces is all complimentary (eg. Small pieces will be presented with other small pieces and the same with large pieces). The pieces were presented on off-white colored walls to enhance the colours in the pieces. As the audience walks through the exhibition, the pieces tend to get larger. The larger pieces were stored in a different section of the gallery in order to maintain flexibility and too not move the viewer’s eye path from the smaller pieces. In order to maintain fluidity as the audience walk through, the gallery was constructed to showcase the works in a timeline fashion which successfully showcased Williams’s life’s’ works.

In juxtaposition to the National Gallery of Victoria, Sam Spratt’s’ website based collective presents a gallery of works in an online fashion.  An online curators role differentiates from a regular curator, as their main goals is to present a catalogue of works which include biographies, introductory statements, explanations of what the exhibitions purpose is and titles for each subset catalogue. On Sam Spratt’s website, the viewer is presented to a captivating ‘About’ page which addresses various points about the artist himself, including a biography, clientele and a list of his featured works. The curator has systematically set up hyperlinks in an attractive flash format so users can easily move through the website accessing areas such as ‘contact details’, ‘media coverage’, ‘online stores’ and, of course, his ‘gallery’ displaying various catalogues of works. The audience is also presented to attractive banners and logos which present a clean and neat online gallery. The curator also decided to include coloured hyperlinks to other social-media based websites, which balances the colours of the site to present a captivating form. The gallery itself is generated using a ‘Flash’ javascript which displays the artworks in a timeline-like manner, expanding images in full quality for optimal viewing experience. These pieces are presented in different catalogues (for example a catalogue entitled ‘Portraits of The People’ shows all of Sam’s works that depict still life portraits of people he has met). By adding these subsets in the gallery allows for relevancy when viewing his works and disallows any confusion when viewing his work.  If a buyer takes interest in a piece, they can simply navigate to the store hyperlink where they can access a catalogue of works. When a buyer wants to commit to buying a piece, a further hyperlink will allow pieces to be bought with ease from an art storage entitled ‘Society 6’. Sam Spratt’s online gallery follows all the conventions of a gallery and presents a cogent retrospective of his works, in an attractive manner.                                                                            
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EDIT: just realised the website doesn't actually use Flash, it uses Javascript, apologies [ <script type="text/javascript"> ]

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