Final Exhibition Proposal

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This exhibition will showcase objects from The Cuming Museum’s world wide ethnographic collection as I aim to bring public awareness back to the Cuming Museum. I propose to use the Nursery Gallery which is situated outside of London College of communications.

A F T E R T H E C O N C E P T

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My aim of the exhibition is to evoke emotion from the audience by drawing upon the idea of the Cuming museum being hollow and untouchable because of the fire. To do this I plan to use the perimeter to create installations which will be of objects outlined in black placed in a ‘real life’ similar situation as you may have seen it in the Cuming museum.

This draws upon the idea of the object not being there any more.

I also propose to create larger installations within the middle of

the room which will be Hollow to again draw upon the idea of objects being out of place in the environment.

The installations will feature different areas which the Cuming Museum once had on show.

Each installation will have a different colour dependant on the area.

PRIVAT E VIEW SATUR ING: DAY 14 TH MA Y 2016 (GUES T SPEA KER) PUBLI C VIEW SUNDA ING: Y 15TH M AY 201 MOND 6 TO AY 25T H JULY 2016 OPENI NG HO URS: 10:30 4:30 W EEKDA 10:30YS 6:30 W EEKEN DS

A F T E R T H E C O N T E N T

The Cuming Museum’s worldwide ethnographic collection is a special resource housed in the Borough of Southwark in South East London. It was the result of over 100 years of collecting by father and son, Richard and Henry Syer Cuming.

They were able to acquire many beautiful and significant objects at a time when a gentleman collector of modest means living in London could purchase objects from around the world. The Cuming’s ethnographic collection was originally both its centre and one of its highlights. When it was packed away for the Second World War it would have counted as among one of the most important in the

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UK. Unfortunately, encouraged by the policies of the Museums Association in the 1950s, and following their own interests in local archaeology, the librarians and later the keepers of the collection, from the late 1940s through to the 1970s, sold, lost, or placed out on ‘permanent loan’ the greater part of the collection.

A small residue was left in the museum stores. Work began in 1997 to regulate the loans and to locate and catalogue the remaining collection in the Cuming Museum stores.

A F T E R T H E D I S P L A Y

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The exhibition will showcase the objects in 3 places of the room.

The areas will use metal hollow rooms as shown on the next page. I want the audience to gain an understanding of the emptiness of the Cuming museum through the idea of being able to walk through the walls.

the most popular in the collection. The objects will be placed in a house setting using props such as a tables, chairs and lighting ( as shown on next page). Because the museum is not there any more the idea of hollow walls will make the objects seem out of place and have no belonging.

Each will represent 3 different countries. Africa, America and Oceanic I have chosen to represent these countries as these areas are

THE EMPTINES S OF THE CUMING

Around the perimeter of the exhibition again I propose to use the idea of hollow objects. Here the objects will not be on show. They will be painted on the wall. I propose to also place a photograph of the image next to the object which will show what the object would have looked like in the Cuming museum. There will be 8 different objects placed around the room.

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The Hollow fixtures will be made from metal which will be welded together to for a room structure. Each Fixture will take approximately 10 days to build. Each one will need to be powder coated in a different colour; red, blue and yellow. These Primary colours will then fit with the countries.

The perimeter will then be painted using stencils with black paint.

Using Black paint will emphasise the hollow objects and create a

raw atmosphere. Black on a white wall also highlights an area as the tones reflect off each other.

The look and feel of the space will be industrial using deep metallic and wooden textures accented by the bright primary, highlighted spaces housing the various different countries objects.

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AMERICA To fill a large space such as the nursery gallery there will be 3 large installations which will be placed as shown on the following page.

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Perimeter

Interactive Wall

A F T E R T H E L I G H T I N G

I propose to use track lighting which will be different shades of brightness dependant on the are. The Fixtures in the centre will have one track lighting above which will highlight key features.

The track lighting on this will be a deep colour as I propose to create a moody feeling. The perimeter will use one 3 light track which will emphasise the objects hollowness.

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The majority of the lighting will be stainless steel spot lighting however interesting accent lighting will be utilised in the space to add interest and warm spots. This will add texture to the objects.

A F T E R T H E F I R E I N T E R A C T I V E S P A C E

This space will be used for an interactive wall. I feel that bring an interactive space to the exhibition will allow the audience to be more involved in the exhibition. The interactive wall will be covered in a brown drawing wall paper which will have questions floating around it projected from a projector.

The questions will ask the following: - Use one word to describe your experience?

- Would you visit the cuming museum?

-Draw your favourite object -Explain your favourite object

ENG WIT AGING AUD H TH IENC E E

A F T E R T H E F I R E M A R K E T I N G

To Market the exhibition I will be using the following methods; Social media. This is important as we want to use a network where we can reach out to different age groups. Social media is in our every day lives and it will be a brilliant way to reach out to this group of people using Facebook and Twitter as the main providers.

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I propose to send a press release to magazines 2 weeks before opening stating time.

I also propose to use small installations around London which will show the fixtures which information of what the exhibition is about.

Putting these in tourist areas will help gain awareness of the exhibition.