The international artist trading card & aceo exhibition UK 2005 all began as a call for donations from international art card makers and enthusiasts. I exhibited almost 700 cards from over 200 makers and from 9 different countries. NOTE - Some of the posts here are from the original blog, I have uploaded them as photos so you will need to click and pinch out to enlarge them if viewing on a phone to see the text clearly. The original blog was deleted, I believe in 2018. I managed to screen shot some of them and saved them and I've listed them here in as close in order as I remember originally writing them. The original poster 2005 The first post on the blog What are ACEO'S I hear you ask. It stands for art cards editions and originals and are the same size at atc's but where atc's are usually traded, ACEO's are often sold.
Choosing an exhibition space . There is an old, decommissioned mortuary chapel on Walcot St. in Bath, a space owned by the city council and available to the public for exhibitions. It was affordable, clean and spacious and available at the time as being it was October no one else had hired it. I was able to hire it for one week, collecting the keys from the council offices on Monday Oct. 5th, and that was the opening day so there was a lot of work to to get it up and running and I was working and there was just the two of us! Posters had already been printed and distributed and I contacted the local evening paper, the Bath Evening Chronical - as it was then and a date was set for a reporter to come down and take some photos. I took photos (on a very basic mobile phone, well it was only 2005!) and kept notes about who visited and wrote up the blog after the exhibition was over. The photo below is of the inside of the gallery chapel, not from another exhibition but I include these s...