Assignment 2

This assignment was all about writing a proposal for a publication. The course notes uses the word 'publication' in the sense of the output of the student's body of work in whatever form that may take. For me, I will be having an exhibition of the 'Target Practice' work in June 2019.

My proposal needs to include a description of the work proposed and what the goals of the publication are. This was fairly easy to put together after studying the Contextual Studies module. I've described the Target Practice work so many times in different ways and for different formats. The aim of the work (to highlight LGBTQ hidden histories to a wider audience) is also a subject that I have touched upon frequently over the last two years.

A budget needed to be prepared that accounted for all the costs of printing, gallery hire, printing of flyers and brochures, catering for a private view, etc. Also, a daily rate for the photographer needed to be calculated which was something much harder to do as general ongoing costs had to be taken into account; this was for business costs that are to continue for the artist's career, not just for one specific project. Once these ongoing costs had been calculated the proposal became very expensive. I decided to split the budget into two; one for an exhibition only, without my daily rate costs and was much more realistic; a second budget covered the cost from the two year development and research of the project right through shooting and final exhibition, including my daily rate. This was to show that if I was to write a proposal for an organisation like the National Arts Council I would be aware of the realistic budget costs from start to finish.

Finally I had to submit a timeline of my project plan for the exhibition showing all the tasks and dates by which the project has to be completed. Some of these tasks I've already completed and over the next few weeks and months I'm sure that list will grow much longer.

Edit:

My feedback with Clive has taken place and we discussed elements of my project plan and he was impressed with how organised I am. I do have a background in I.T. project planning so have skills in this area that I can put to good use. I've been ill for a number of weeks so it will be catch up time in terms of the project plan but everything is still moving along as planned.