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2 Degrees of Separation...

Posted by Danielle Pender on October 23, 2008 12:47 PM | 

So as Hidden in Plain View draws to a close in Newcastle we're looking to tour the exhibition to other galleries in London, Paris and New York. As we've managed to secure big name designers and brilliant coverage on international design blogs we thought it would be pretty easy to attract the attention of design focused galleries. Turns out it wasn't!

Our e-mails went unanswered and our phonecalls went unreturned. Someone even told us because we were so far from London they weren't interested in dealing with us! We were about to start taking it very personally when we received an e-mail from a lovely lady called Yuta who owns a gallery in New York. We co-ordinated our time differences and chatted on the phone about babies (my colleague Beth has just given birth to a baby girl!), politics, the economic crisis, Sex & the City and finally design. Yuta loves the project and has agreed to show it in her gallery in December 2009. I explained the difficulty we'd had in dealing with other galleries and she offered to help as she used to work in London. Two phonecalls later and we've secured a London show and a possible Barcelona show in 2010!

So it comes back tot old saying "it's who you know, not what you know". Even more so if you're dealing with people in London who have a nose bleed every time they leave EC1.

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