The first exhibition was named ' One ' on Wednesday 15th Nov.. I went to there in the morning. After a short ' Sculpture Workshop trip ' by the teachers and students, we started to think about our installation for the show. We have 6 artists that day exclude Fintan Ryan, who was absent but left some flyers there which, showing his video work's web-link. The big problem I faced in the first exhibition was that we couldn't get in touch with Ellyce Morgan. Even if we had her proposal, we couldn't image how many pieces of work she wanted to show and what the size of the works. From the proposals which she gave before, it's not so clear about the contents and the size of the works. What's more, I was also afraid that she would cancel this attendance without notice. Thus, we couldn't figure out the way of installation. In order to solve this problem, I tried two solutions at the same time. On the one hand, I tried to figure out Ellyce's phone number. I asked all the artists there and also let them to ask their friends who could get in touch with Ellyce. On the other hand, I tried to make some suppositions: if she would bring 3 works ( the proposal mentioned that her works were drawing around A3-A4 size), I preferred to install her work on wall A; and if 6 works, wall B; if she would not attend, I had another plan which just show the other 5 artists' work. Based on such guesses, I supposed some different installation ways to deal with the whole attendant artists' works. Luckily, we got Ellyce's call in the afternoon which said she would be the space at 15:30 - 1 hour prior to the Crit - with 4 A4 pieces of drawing. Actually, even I got the confirmation from her, I was still quite nerves after I got the call, as my personality is the one which couldn't relieve myself until I could make sure everything. But finally we still finished our installation after Ellyce's arriving before the Crit, because we left a space of a wall for her work.
The Crit went very well and many students in RCA were involved. It last nearly 3 hours.