What to Say on an Art Placard for a Gallery Shpw

Labels for exhibits - near artists and/or paintings - in an exhibition are necessary.  However some artists discover them a bit of a challenge to produce and or treat them as an afterthought.

This post tells you lot how I brand labels for the wall of an art exhibition.  It also invites other artists to share their best tips for making labels.

Why have a label?

The labels on the wall of north fine art exhibition can tell people about:

• the purpose or nature of the exhibition.  I do appreciate a decent introduction!
• the artist - who produced the painting.  I really liked it when one fine art society started to hang all an artist's work in one group and included a narrative label about the artist.  It was as if all the artwork had suddenly been made more attainable
• the artwork - typically medium and size.  I hate having to puzzle out how an artist made a painting.  I want to be surprised to find out it really includes a media I hadn't spotted.  I love reading stories behind an artwork.
• the prize and the prizewinner.  People who win prizes need recognition and preferably in the form of a legible well sited characterization likewise as the value of the prize they've won

1 way of making labels

This is the manner I make labels for exhibitions

• Detect out what surface and space is available for labels.  The hang of the exhibition typically determines the size and weight of the label.
• Determine on content, size and number.Determine:

• the purpose of the label
• the content of the characterization
• the size of the characterization for the exhibition
• how many labels are required

For the Urban Sketchers London exhibition nosotros had

• ane A5 sized characterization for each artist. On this we had proper noun of artist, a few lines near the artist and why they sketch, the championship/media of all he artwork being exhibited and finally website address, blog accost and contact arrangements
• one label for the exhibition which summarised the background to the book launch and a summary of our group - in two columns of A5 on a sheet of A4

Exhibition "Introduction" Label for an unmanned exhibition (size A4 mural format)
Left - describes the background to a new book in the gallery of this major bookstore
Right - very short summary of the grouping exhibiting sketches in the exhibition + contact details

• Create a template for the label.  Make the size of the characterization efficient in terms of the number of cuts required to produce a label for an creative person. I used Give-and-take to set up a sheet of A4 in landscape format with ii columns sized A5 with margins which were equalised for each cavalcade.  An A5 size label was used for each creative person because we had a reasonable corporeality of infinite available for a label for each artist.
• Select and appropriate font.  Go on it unproblematic and professional.
• Decide on the minimum font size for ease of reading a characterization on a wall - this needs a few trial runs to run into what works best.  Remember people will be reading this from a distance - it needs to be bigger than the font size used for a book. The text for the torso used in the above example was Arial 12.
• Print the label on matte photo newspaper.  I adopt this because information technology almost eliminates the telescopic for wrinkles in the adjacent stage
• Cutting bankroll for the labels.  The bankroll gives a fleck of weight - which makes them look more professional - and makes them easier to attach to the wall. I use offcuts of mountboard or foam core.  It'south helpful to apply a template to get the size right.
• Glue the characterization to the bankroll.  Use glue or a pritt stick or spray glue or equivalent.  If you utilise lightweight paper you demand to be very careful as yous'll find information technology may wrinkle (hence why I always use heavier paper). Trim to neaten up edges
• Adhere the labels to the wall - later on y'all have hung the exhibition.  You tin can employ pic pins or removeable adhesive strips (merely brand sure you get the ones that go out no damage)

The same procedure works as well for much smaller labels which are for only the creative person'south name or details about an individual artwork.

Other ways of making labels

If y'all have a dissimilar manner of making labels and would like to share, I guarantee there's a lot of people who love to know more than!

Please exit a comment below if you'd similar to share your best tips for making labels for art exhibitions.

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