Week 3

Everything is alright this week. We are still doing the construction work and waiting for the information of artwork from artists. For me, I am still focusing on marketing to help them do some marketing research such as Media research.  

We got some Chinese artists lists which were picked form 50 artists. The majority work for our group is to prepare their advertise information which we need to promote about the exhibition to the public once the artist has been chosen. We did these research form different kinds of media channels such as Chinese community magazines, local newspaper, art magazine, online marketing etc. At the same time, we also need to find out the contact number as well as the price of the media agent advertisement department. So we can contact them when we wish to advertise this artist. The work all we did is also in a previously part of exhibition process that we can provide more useful information for artists. For example, one of Chinese artists Ah Xian was advertised form online marketing by Australia Art Auction Records. The monthly fee by subscription is $22.finally we can compare the price of different advertisement department. the biggest problem is that sometimes it is difficult to find the price beacuse they do not reveal unless I log in.

so after we received all the information, the manager planned to advertise somewhere in China. consequently ,I have got an challenge that I was ask for making a phone call to contact with the agent advertisement department in China due to my first language is mandarin. Although I was really happy I can make a contribution to my gallery, to some extent, I felt much stressful and be nervous.  

Week 2

Everyone looks busy this week. We totally have 4 weeks of doing construction work. Everything has been done by our team. Loot at the picture below you will know what we did. Although it seems really hard and tired, but I feel happy that the exhibition would be organized and it grows up gradually. Except the construction work, I have been assigned by our leader to do the marketing research. I would be asked to gather information of variety art events that is happening at the moment in Australia. That really a long list, total is about 255 art events and our majority work to focus on NSW and plus any major events in other states. This is for the general knowledge to see how big the market is for emerging and experienced artists in Australia. We need to find the information of event type, state, specific prize, contact detail, website and eligibility. For example, ‘Clarence Valley Indigenous Art Award’ of biennial, the prize pool of $6000 comprises the Open Acquisitive Prize of $5000 and the Highly Commended Prize of $1000. A further $600 in art materials is on offer to Baryulgil Public School for work in their Studio Gallery exhibition.  The artwork winning the Open Acquisitive Prize is acquired into the Grafton Regional Gallery Collection. It opens to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists who reside in the traditional areas of the Yaegl, Bundjalung and Gumbaingirr nations. At the same time, my supervisor started contacting Chinese/Chinese-Australia artists based on my previous research and their privious work. After two weeks internship in the gallery, although I only spent 3 days of each week, I would be trust by our colleagues. I am looking forward next week internship.

Week 1 - First Task

Last week was my first week of my internship; it was quite busy and I spent majority time on research. I met each colleague in our gallery and introduced to everyone. Our galley plans to hold a Chinese artist exhibition next time, so before that we need to do a lot of research first. The leader assigned task to everyone. I received my first task from my supersaver. My first task is to do research information on 50 artists, including 20 Chinese artists, 15 Chinese artists in Australia, and 15 Australian artists that are well known, each of them at least had 3 years of experience and has done exhibition for the last 1 year. Except that, I was exposed to find out the information of their representative artwork, contact, web/blog, awards and articles. Finally I needed to make a form for their experiences. This is my first time to do internship in a galley and I did not have any experiences before. Everything for me is new and fresh. To be honest, before the research, I did not know many Chinese artists. At the beginning, it seemed a little bit boring, but I found it interesting after I finished ten artist’s information. The types are different between each artist. Even though, some artists who focus on sculpture, their artworks are totally different, and their representative artworks are quite amazing. Moreover, to be a famous artist is not an easy way that each artist had their difficult experience. After one week’s internship, I have learned more knowledge from their basic information. I am happy with my internship and I am looking forward my next task.

Cheers!