How To Brand Labels For An Fine Art Exhibition

Labels for exhibits - well-nigh artists and/or paintings - inwards an exhibition are necessary.  However some artists honour them a flake of a challenge to attain together with or process them every bit an afterthought.

This postal service tells you lot how I brand labels for the wall of an fine art exhibition.  It too invites other artists to percentage their best tips for making labels.

Why accept a label?

The labels on the wall of n fine art exhibition tin nation people about:

• the travel or nature of the exhibition.  I practise appreciate a decent introduction!
• the creative individual - who produced the painting.  I genuinely liked it when 1 fine art social club started to hang all an artist's piece of job inwards 1 grouping together with included a narrative label well-nigh the artist.  It was every bit if all the artwork had all of a abrupt been made to a greater extent than accessible
• the artwork - typically medium together with size.  I loathe having to puzzle out how an creative individual made a painting.  I desire to be surprised to honour out it genuinely includes a media I hadn't spotted.  I honey reading stories behind an artwork.
• the prize together with the prizewinner.  People who win prizes bespeak recognition together with preferably inwards the shape of a legible good sited label every bit good every bit the value of the prize they've won

One agency of making labels

This is the agency I brand labels for exhibitions

• Find out what surface together with infinite is available for labels.  The hang of the exhibition typically determines the size together with weight of the label.
• Decide on content, size together with number.  Determine:

• the travel of the label
• the content of the label
• the size of the label for the exhibition
• how many labels are required

For the Urban Sketchers London exhibition nosotros had

• one A5 sized label for each artist. On this nosotros had get upwards of artist, a few lines well-nigh the creative individual together with why they sketch, the title/media of all he artwork beingness exhibited together with lastly website address, weblog address together with contact arrangements
• one label for the exhibition which summarised the background to the mass launch together with a summary of our grouping - inwards ii columns of A5 on a canvas of A4

Exhibition "Introduction" Label for an unmanned exhibition (size A4 landscape format)
Left - describes the background to a novel mass inwards the gallery of this major bookstore
Right - really brusk summary of the grouping exhibiting sketches inwards the exhibition + contact details

• Create a template for the label.  Make the size of the label efficient inwards damage of the position out of cuts required to attain a label for an artist. I used Word to develop a canvas of A4 inwards landscape format amongst ii columns sized A5 amongst margins which were equalised for each column.  An A5 size label was used for each creative individual because nosotros had a reasonable amount of infinite available for a label for each artist.  
• Select together with appropriate font.  Keep it unproblematic together with professional.
• Decide on the minimum font size for relaxation of reading a label on a wall - this needs a few case runs to come across what industrial plant best.  Remember people volition live reading this from a distance - it needs to live bigger than the font size used for a book. The text for the trunk used inwards the higher upwards example was Arial 12.  
• Print the label on matte photograph paper.  I prefer this because it virtually eliminates the compass for wrinkles inwards the side past times side stage
• Cut backing for the labels.  The backing gives a flake of weight - which makes them hold back to a greater extent than professional person - together with makes them easier to attach to the wall. I use offcuts of mountboard or foam core.  It's helpful to utilization a template to choke the size right.  
• Glue the label to the backing.  Use glue or a pritt stick or spray mucilage or equivalent.  If you lot utilization lightweight newspaper you lot bespeak to live really careful every bit you'll honour it may wrinkle (hence why I e'er utilization heavier paper). Trim to neaten upwards edges
• Attach the labels to the wall - afterward you lot accept hung the exhibition.  You tin utilization movie pins or removeable adhesive strips (but brand certain you lot choke the ones that instruct out no damage)

The same procedure industrial plant every bit good for much smaller labels which are for simply the artist's get upwards or details well-nigh an private artwork.

Other ways of making labels

If you lot accept a dissimilar agency of making labels together with would similar to share, I guarantee there's a lot of people who honey to know more!

Please instruct out a comment below if you'd similar to percentage your best tips for making labels for fine art exhibitions.

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