Some Helpful Tips when writing your Curator's Blog

A few things:

- write in the present tense - the exhibition is 'on' and you are writing about the experience of the exhibition itself, using individual works by the artist as evidence of its success.

- if you have used a different protocol to the one set out in the task, i.e. www.sthahamptoncurator.blogspot.com, you must email me your specific site.

- at no point do you refer to your own work

- always use the artist's surname.

- do not include biographical information

- in the introduction you need to talk about the theme/title/concept of the exhibition and how these artists contribute to that concept. What does the exhibition look like? Where is it? What stikes you as you walk in? etc

- don't separate the blog into a paragraph about one artist and another paragraph about the other. You need to write about the exhibition.

- use the elements of the personal aesthetic; subject matter, artist's intention, media and techniques, visual language, the context of the work, influences etc to build your writing around it. You can be quite methodical about this, ie talk about the concept of the show and how each of the artists' bodies of work contribute to it.

- you must write about the visual language - colour scheme, atmosphere of the works etc and use this as a unifying device.

- refer to specific works and provide images with full titles, dates, media, size etc and a link to the site you sourced them from.

- ensure that you reference correctly and include a bibliography and if you use something from another website – make a hypertext link to the appropriate page of that site.

- please make sure that your blog set up allows people to post comments - I have found a few that don't allow this facility, hence this site to provide you with general feedback.

I will continue to add to this resource over the next few weeks.