On Monday morning, the 15th my father and me delivered the work to Public Room Gallery in Skopje where the space was ready for install. We started by placing and organising the tiles on the floor and after long and careful measuring of the walls and working out the spacing, we started to install the work, which took 2 ½ days. Everything was ready except the catalogues. The company that was printing the catalogues in Macedonia did them incorrect and made a full mess of the print. They delivered the catalogues very last minute on Thursday morning and we didn’t had the time to reprint or find someone else to do the job… On the opening, which was very embarrassing for me, we had to make an announcement that the catalogues have been badly/wrongly printed and that we are going to reprint them back in the UK!
But I have to say that the opening was a great success, there was so many visitors came to the opening that the gallery was to small to accommodate everyone that arrived, so many people where queuing outside to come in! Ana Frangovska, curator at the National Gallery of Macedonia and the Mayor of Kavadarci (my city) Mr Aleksandar Panov opened the exhibition. The amazing thing was that the Mayor of my city organised a bus from Kavadarci to Skopje to help and bring all the interested people.
For me this was an incredible evening, it was my first solo exhibition in my country and many friends and family came to see it. Also I had brilliant coverage in the papers and interviews with two different TV stations.
After the opening I had a little rest and enjoyed the time spend with my family before returning back to the UK on the 22nd of November.
