The things which we sell...

Louise and I arranged and held events in the shop, which I've spoken about in previous posts, however I haven't really spoken about what the shop sold. So here it is...

We wanted to encourage as many people to be a part of the shop as possible and for the space to be seen as ever changing and growing. Luckily for us we have a good, strong group of friends in our year group who helped things get moving, which resulted in others seeing something which they liked and wanted to be a part of.

Becky, Clare, Giles, Michael and Richard all very kindly donated work which was for sale. As Louise and I wanted to encourage people to think about how they judged how valuable a piece of work was, we encouraged the audience/ customers to think traditionally, in the sense of using the cost of materials and a wage per hour of how long the work took to make. The plaques beneath the work would contain the artists name, with a minimum price, which was the amount of money which the artist had spent on materials and producing the work. Beside this was the amount of time spent on producing the work. Therefore the price which the work sold for was left up to the customer to decide.

Here are photos of their work (apologies for the bad photographs):

Printed letters by Clare Asquith-Finegan. Minimum price: 5p each. Time spent: 2 mins each.

1 of 3 ink jet prints by Giles Bunch. Minimum price £2.50 each. Time spent: 3 hours each.

A5 Cross- stitch by Louise Fitzjohn. SOLD for £5.00

A1 drawing on paper by R B Grange. Minimum price £10.00. Time spent: 6 hours.

A4 collage by Michael Marczewski. Minimum price: £3.50. Time spent: 4 hours.

Embroidered text on fabric by Rebecca Price. SOLD for £40.00.

Special thanks to all those lovely people for donating their work to us. All profits going to our degree show.