The Prawn Shop event

In Feburary i release a limeited edition clothing collection with one of my classmates and illustrator Tom. During the time in which we were working on our collection, i was contacted by the events coordinator at The Old Red Bus Station in Leeds, a venue, restaurant, club and bar space (initial email opposite).

I thought that this sounded like a great opportunity, and as i was currently working on a new collection with Tom, i suggested that we do the event together, and create a launch party for the new collection. Tom was on board and i was excited and less nervous to hold my first event with someone else, as we could prepare everything together.

It took around 3 days to fully set up the exhibition space, consisting of two rooms which we fully decorated.
We had a stall in one room, where we were selling prints and tote bags, the concept behind this room was for it to be a more quiet exhibition area, with prints and artwork on the walls, a table on wine and prawn cookies, photo backdrops (which we produced to engage people with the event on social media). The second room was more of a party room, there were sofas around the room, more art work, a temporary tattoo station, an interactive drawing, the new collection hung up on the walls and a projected slide show of the collection.

We didn't sell tickets for the event, so we weren't sure how many people would actually attend, thankfully over 200 people attended the event, with most of them staying for over three hours. We held a raffle to win the new collection at 10pm which was a good incentive to get people to stay, as we wanted it to be more than a pop in and out event, we intended it to be a launch party where people could talk and look at some new stuff, and it worked, the night was a great success.

images from the event, we distributed film camera throughout to capture the different people who attended

I was so pleased with how well the event went, and how many people turned up, it has definitely made me a lot more open and excited to launch another event, which im possibly considering for the launch of my next collection which will be coming out in late may.