WORKSHOP ONLINE CONSULTATIONS +
Tutorials Live Streamed on YouTube
This intermediate workshop is attended via one-on-one CONSULTATIONS so the course material can be focused on your specific interests and aims, and any follow up questions are subsequently answered in our free weekly TUTORIALS. The cost per Workshop Consultation is AUS $330 including all fees and charges.
Exhibition Practice Tutorials – Live Streamed
• 08 June 2025 (AEST) 10.30am to 11.30am
• Time Zone Convertor
Once we have created our images, the next step is to share, publish and exhibit them. But if you thought the capture, processing, editing and evaluation of your images was a handful, wait until you decide to present them to the world. A whole different set of conditions arise and once again you are at the start of a new adventure. This workshop is therefore devoted to supporting you as you get your images seen, engaged with, and discussed, especially as physical prints, books, objects or installations.
Images are printed, mounted, signed, framed, and packaged. They are sequenced, hung, lit, discussed and written about. You will work in the context of other artists, master printers, framers, curators, writers and reviewers. This practical experience is designed to help you professionally and with confidence to prepare, present and support your own work, while also helping you avoid unwanted commercial and artistic complications. It is also about how to embed and contextualise your work, how to talk about it and protect it both literally and emotionally, while having it represent you to the best of your ability. Our LIVE Tutorials can then answer all your questions and address your individual circumstances to ensure you are a more informed, assured and articulate exhibiting artist.
The workshop is presented via individual consultations and supported by extensive resources – notes, videos, test files, actions, macros, LUTs, profiles etc. – covering the following topics and accessed without restriction via the Workshop’s Resource Website.
Curating your own Practice
• Developing, discussing, and supporting your work
• Telling a story, making a point, iterating the facts
• Stand alone images, series, and narrative constructions
• Artist statements: packaging and presenting your work
• Annotating works: titling, signing, editioning, cataloguing
Developing a Body of Work
• Matching images to media
• Exhibition prints versus editioned prints
• Image size, aspect ratios, and print borders
• Rescaling algorithms and recombinatory interpolation
• Enhancing images for printing, publications and web
Exhibition Design
• Layout, installation presentation and staging
• Lines of sight and discovered moments
• Image and text: catalogue strategies
• Hanging hardware, geometry, and orchestration
• Lighting: spectral quality, UV, and reflection control
Exhibition Finishing
• To mount (frame) or not to mount (frame)
• Substrates and surface coatings
• Surface mounting (Diasec), overmats, and shadow boxes
• Museum glass versus acrylic
• Crating and freighting works
Collaborating with Others
• Working with pro labs, printers and writers
• The art and craft of not-making
• Commercial galleries versus public galleries
• Clients, patrons, artist proofs and edition control
• Representation, commissions, consignments, residencies
Publishing
• Photobook versus catalogue discourse
• Extending our critical engagement
• A short history of self publishing
• Print buys and print brokers
• What to do next?
Also there are no time restrictions or viewing limits on any of the workshop resources including the Workshop’s Consultation Recordings. And as additional questions arise they can be answered by attending our free weekly Tutorials Live Steamed via ZOOM ensuring consistent and ongoing support.
Venue: Individual Online Consultations
Duration: 3+ hours (workshop + ongoing tutorials)
Resources: Extensive course notes, videos, test images, actions, macros, luts
Cost: AUS $330 (includes all fees and charges)
More Information: See FAQ (Education)
What are the differences between the Understanding Pictures, Exhibition Preparation and Thinking Photography workshops? Our Understanding Pictures workshop concentrates on Pictorial Design and the construction of pictures for enhanced aesthetic affect. Exhibition Preparation focuses on the refinement of images for public presentation in galleries, publications and online. Thinking Photography refines the scholarship and rationale underlying both the construction and presentation of images. Therefore these workshops effectively address the What, How and Why of research based contemporary artistic practice’s creative and cultural contributions.
Updated 15 June 2025.