This is the bit where everyone gets stressed out, including me! Just when I want to concentrate on thinking about how to exhibit my work other annoying things like the catalogue, the invites and organising the bar for the preview have to be dealt with. Not to mention also trying to send off proposals for galleries and residencies. No real work is getting done.
Everyone has been working so hard that the catalogue has been pretty much forgotten. So now we have a last minute panic on our hands together with the prospect of a botched job. Personally I think the invites are more important. One good thing is that I have been offered the chance to mail my own invitations to a wide audience through a local gallery that has occasionally exhibited my work. The gallery owner has also kindly offered to give some advice on how to exhibit my work once my space has been finalised.
I have up to twenty smallish sculptures that I would like to show as a collection. The collection would make a sort of museum effect which reflects the basis for my work. Some will go on the floor but others need to be seen at waist or shoulder height. The problem is how to best show them. I have thought of all sorts of options from building plinths from chipboard, to scaffolding and boards, to shelving brackets, using building blocks to support surfaces and to painting the floor to designate the area in which to place the work.
As for the drawings, I think I can negotiate a separate space for them, away from the sculptures. This would mean that neither would over shadow the other and the viewers would not make obvious comparisons.
