Friday 17 September 2010

The Layout

The preconceived ideas we had about where each work should be situated before the exhibition had to be re thought. Most of the artists wanted clean white walls and a lot of space around the work, but this was a debatable issue - not just within the artists group, but also with how the gallery usually works. Big decisions and compromises were made.

We also decided against the usual system for this gallery, to have wall panels and labels next to the work. This was too distracting.
It meant extra work in placing numbers next to each work and then typing up a list, but this helped with the 'clean' look we originally aimed for.

On top of the extra time needed to plan the layout, Sue's work - creating the shape of the 'Spoor' trail and then preparing the wall panel in order to paint the names and places of origin took two full days.


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