Must Try Harder - The Volunteers’ Show
Private View Thursday Jan 10th 6 - 8pm
January 10th to January 25th 2008
Each year the volunteers at Surface Gallery are given the chance to exhibit a selection of their work within the gallery.
The work on show is as diverse, eclectic and broad ranging as the backgrounds from which the volunteers come - ranging from Illustration and Graphic Design to Fine Art, Photography and Cultural Studies.The media chosen by the artists looks set include photography, performance, installation, video and more.
The title represents a maxim often uttered by those who work in this field - encapsulating both frustrations and positive intentions of those trying to make their own way within the arts; a knowing criticism bound with the positivity of progressive self-improvement.
Taken as a kind of new-years resolution for the team at the gallery it also contains the promise of bigger and better things to come in year ahead.