I’ve been lucky of late to have had technicians to work with me to install some of my more ambitious projects, from town centre wardens to jet wash the streets of Warrington for the contemporary arts festival last year, Monty at Castlefield Gallery who created perfect tv stands for Watermark at The Drawing Project in February to Cathal who did the install of my 5m high tv wall and projections at the Bluecoat last July.
I asked Cathal if he would be able to work with me on this exhibition and fortunately he was available. We met and he worked out how best to build the plinths that I needed to hold the TV screens on a horizontal plane. They kind of look like a normal plinth, but needed various bits of engineering to get the tv to stay in place, interior shelves and a door to access the media player. He also worked with me to create the joining system for the large circles that are used in ‘Displaced Persons’ which fit together perfectly. It’s this attention to detail and ease of which each of my collaborators can do their part of the work that makes making new, more ambitious work easier.
