Extended+labels+for+exhibition

Exhibition Labels ** A background  **

Each individual work of art on display in a gallery or museum is accompanied by a label giving the artist's name, nationality, birth and death dates, the title and date of the work, the materials of which it is made, a credit line indicating the source of the work, and its accession (i.e., inventory) number. Occasionally, especially in temporary exhibitions, there are extended wall labels, which provide information about artists' biographies, the historical or cultural context of the works, and the curator's reasons for grouping certain works of art together We require each student to produce an extended label to accompany their work. An extended label gives the viewer more information about the work they are looking at – these points may assist in guiding students to write their label · Explain to the viewer about the work · Reason the medium was selected · What the elements in the work represent or symbolise · Themes that may be expressed through the work · Written in 3rd person  For the //With One Work// exhibition we will be using the format below to maintain consistency with the styling of exhibition labels at the Benalla Art Gallery. · Margins: All 2cm · Font: Arial · Size: 14
 * // With One Work Labels  //**
 * // Formatting  //**

Layout · Artist name (**First name only** ) · School · Title of work (enter ‘Untitled’ if work is not titled ) in bold and underlined · Date (on same line as title) · Medium ( list all elements in work or construction) · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dimensions of work (entered in cm) · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Text (line spacing 1.5 or less if it is a large body of text)