Many people who come to the show are not aware of the work that goes behind the scenes to make the Oxton Art Fair the success it is and has become. It is a group run show and it was worth specifying what everyone does. There hasn't been an opportunity to acknowledge this in detail earlier.
Eleanor Suggett has worked very hard both this year and last year,
designing and arranging the printing of the invitations, posters, flyers and bio plaques as well as doing the fantastic invite for the Oxton Society celebration. She also took wonderful minutes that even had pictures - a plus for a group of visual artists. Elley also worked very hard during The BIG DRAW in October.
Marie worked tirelessly on
all the organisation for The Big Draw, did
the photo-shop work on Dan's image of the group to add herself and Lisa into the group photo and all the work on the Oxton Artist website. She also presented a pen and ink demonstration in the demonstration area
Patsy has QUIETLY bought the wine and dealt with the empties afterwards for several years. She arranged for the Deputy Mayor to visit as well as asking Karl at the Williamson to meet and greet the dignatories. Mr Patsy, Kevin was also a tireless promotor of our event on Facebook and is always available to help at the bar.Patsy also took down our archive display in the foyer.
Lisa made the name tags and produced the invaluable e-flyer for us all to invite our contacts with the help of her partner, David Dunlop. She promoted our event on her website and on Facebook.
Judith, inspite of being very busy with teaching and all the fairs she
does has taken minutes, organised the demonstrations, promoted our event on her website and on Facebook.
Theresia has done minutes, hosted a meeting, created the layout, and helped to liaise with the Williamson. She suggested The Singh Twins as our invited guests and contacted them about opening our event as well as arranging a meeting for us at her home prior to the event so they could see images of all the artists work. She also arranged (with Judith) for Henry Bird to play his blues on Sunday. She promoted our event Facebook. She also came and delivered food and Ibuprofen when I was sick last week before the show. Above and beyond the call of duty. She also demonstrated her skills in origami and came in specially to clean up after the Big Draw.
Des has hosted our meetings and our social in January, creating lovely food for us all, done demos at the Big Draw and the Oxton Art Fair. She sourced paper and equipment, she promoted our event on her website and on Facebook. She helped tidy up the Big Draw pictures at the end of our fair.
Janine came in to The Williamson and cut paper in readiness for The Big Draw and was a big draw at the Big Draw, she looked after all the wonderful pictures produced on the day so we could present them at our show, she has been an extra car available to call on to get supplies and certainly helped Eleanor with all her commitments to the group. She must also be remembered for bringing her delicious home cooking to meetings to feed the hungry artists.
Roger helped Dan with the group photo and was on the selection panel and hosted the selection panel meeting at his home as well as collecting work from the Williamson from the candidates. He also helped record The Big Draw and the Oxton Art Fair, even forgetting to take an image of his own display (anyone who has one please send it to Roger...)
Dan took care of the group photo and to what great results! He also gave a talk about the Secret Garden of the Williamson. Lots of people were discussing this all weekend.
Ken was not as capable of doing much this year but in previous years (even last year when he was ill) he has helped others with their display, created 2 A Boards. He was on the selection panel this year.
Eimear as a new person was continually offering to help and did do the distribution list, she helped with cutting paper and preparing for the Big Draw.She promoted our event on her own website.
Lynda has been our treasurer for several years.She has not wanted to be treasurer but has continued on and always giving us our receipts and paying bills on time.She also donated inks for The Big Draw.
Sherilyn was on the selection panel to choose the new artists for 2009 and her daughter Leanne has always been a helpful co-opted member of the bar team with Kevin and Sue.
Jayne bought the lovely bouquets of flowers for the Singh Twins.
Liz helped with the cafe and helped with photography for the Big Draw.She also arranged for her husband, Tim Glover to play at the opening. Tim was going play solo but arrived with a full band! She also helped keep the demo/workshop area neat and tidy. She helped take down all The Big Draw pictures.
Alan has done layout in previous years and has done alot of photography as well as posting photos on the internet and sending images to journalists at request. Sue, Mrs Alan has always been a ready hand at the bar for our Friday night openings.
Mark designed and worked on the Ox for the Oxton Society celebrations which was a feature of this year's show. The Ox has had an extended stay at the Williamson but will hopefully be travelling to St Saviour's church soon. We exhibit there at The Secret Gardens of Oxton in 2006 (I think)so that completes the circle.
Mark Emptage, although not exhibiting this year, attended meetings and helped the other artists who needed help setting up their exhibition, from unloading, moving furniture to hanging work on the wall and more.
All of the group distributed flyers and posters throughout Merseyside, people found the flyers in all the right places. It obviously worked with 1500 visiting.
Thanks also to Tom for transporting the Ox from it's stable of creation to the Williamson and for providing the hollow doors for the armature (internal structure).
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