Dialogue Box- George Benson
Dialogue Box has seen its first exhibition; George Benson’s striking work ‘the colour of music’ has brought colour to the AirSpace window for just over a week. A great start to the series and we have really enjoyed having it at the gallery.
“It was great to see the completed installation of ‘the colour of music’ at Airspace Gallery as it’s been a hectic couple of weeks. I had my second child only three weeks ago, so the build of the installation and everything else wasn’t really started until a week before the final date. People will agree however that having a tight deadline can sometimes spur creativity!
I’m not the best carpenter but the box container for the records came together quite well in the end with the liberal use of wood filler and white paint, however it wasn’t completely ready until the day before so I hadn’t tested the records in situ. I rushed to Ikea (hell) to get some stand support to raise the box up on to eye level and (due to space constraints) assembled everything in my back garden.
I looked up at the sky …… it could rain at any point so I had to finalise the order of the records as quickly as possible otherwise everything would get very wet. The next hour was spent taking 1000 records on out of their sleeves and carting them downstairs to the garden ready to put in the box. With one eye on the clouds above I arranged the records into their array of colours. Lots of tweaks later everything was deconstructed ready to be installed the next day.
The installation at Airspace was much smoother especially with the able support of Dave and Andy although the records needed lots of spacing as they had mysteriously shrunk during transit. However the final piece looks great, amazing even. The double aspect of the window provides a dual aspect to the work, changing its perspective as you walk past. The contrast on the window to the architecture of the building also really works to provide an interesting focus and setting.
It was difficult and stressful at times but I’m really proud to have completed the work and have it exhibited here. It looks fantastic and the people at Airspace are lovely.”
– George Benson
