Art Show A Great Success

The Hit&Run Art Show held at The Mere at Ellesmere on Sunday 16th August was a great success.

Originally intended to be a small event the show became a whopper with fifty five creatives exhibiting their work to well over a thousand members of the public. Artists and craftspersons exhibited paintings in all media, sculpture in stone, metal wood and felt, ceramics and turned wood, salt dough and glass and a huge range of made wares.

Despite the deliberately local flavour (all of the creatives were local or regional and advertising for the show was predominantly by poster and through local media) the exhibitors report many sales and expressions of interest which look to be leading on to further contacts.

Sarah Stokes and myself organised the show under the aegis of the Hit&Run Art Co. (a company we formed to handle cheques for the show but an organisational name we have used for some years to pin to several small art events we have inflicted on Ellesmere.)  We had no budget and no experience of organising an event of this size. We have learned a lot over the six months it took to organise and hold the show!  However, we felt that there were a large number of creative people in the North Shropshire area that didn't talk to each other and that a show would bring them into one space and hopefully prove to be the catalyst for something bigger.  Over the last six months we have developed links with many creative people and a consensual goal: to make Ellesmere to art what Hay-On-Wye is to books.  A little presumptuous perhaps, but why not aim high?

We have had many requests from the artists to repeat the show next year and it looks like we will be doing so (after recovering form this one!)  If you are interested in exhibiting at the show please contact me either by leaving a reply here on the blog or by email me at: Phill@endsofinvention.biz  and I will contact you with details as they become available.

See you on the flipside!

Phill