3D Communication At the Gallery 9th-12th February

At the Gallery   9th-12th February

I arrived at the gallery nice and early so I could help paint and clean before we could start laying out our work. I was surprised to see that everything appeared to be done. With the walls and floor relatively clean, there was only one makeshift wall that needed painting and the odd mark here or there. This meant that there was a lot less for us to do than we all thought. With a little bit of paint, and an extra wall in the centre of the room, the gallery space would be ready.

After an hour of waiting for the van to get here, and another 30 minutes for the plinths to be unloaded, we could start sorting things out. First of all we had to find which plinths were ours and make sure they weren't damaged on the way to the gallery. Luckily all was fine with a couple of them having only little marks that could be painted over. Mine was fine with some small marks that I could quick paint over. I was glad that I did the majority of work at the college. Leaving it all till the last week would have been stressful. With my plinth drying and the wall up, I had little left to do seeing as there were no tools yet to fix my plinth. I like everyone, thought that today would be mostly painting and cleaning.

I got to the gallery a little later than normal because of English. I wanted to get my plinth sorted today. Once that was done I could help out where ever I was needed so that everything would be ready for Thursday. After waiting for some of the tools to arrive, I could drill a hole in my plinth, cut the pole down to size and glue the wood the pole would sit in. This took a little while to do and I knew I had to wait overnight for the glue to dry. The cold in the room wasn't helping and everything seemed to take three times as long to dry than normal. I had planned most of the measuring, placing and fitting out at college, knowing that I'd have little time if anything went wrong. Leaving the glue to dry, it was the end of the day and I was happy that everything will be done by tomorrow.

With my plinth sorted I could now pick out a spot for my work to go. I already had a place in mind, but I knew that it wasn't definite until I got the all clear from Graham. Everything had to work well together and I had to take into account others work and needs. Needless to say that there was a lot of moving and rearranging. The only thing I wanted was a light over my work. It was important for it to get a good light source so that it would shine and show off the acrylic. After much moving, it seemed that my piece found a place and I was happy with the spot. I then had to make some small adjustments so everything was stable and I was finished setting up my work. I then could go home and start making some food for the show, four batches of brownies and some drink.

With today being the day of the exhibition, I had to do a bit of running round in the morning to get the food, drink and cups ready. I went into the gallery to help everyone that needed it and made sure that the cups, napkins and tablecloths were alright for the show. Everything was coming together and I could see that everyone had finished, or only had one or two final touches to do. So after helping with the cleaning, painting and running round I could go home get the food and drink and get back for six.