Monday. 2 days till Private View
Drive Zipvan full of paintings to Muse. John Nicol taking down his amazing show. Cleared gallery. Headed to Griffin Prize meeting. Am on shortlist for 7th Nov. Back to the gallery. Fire alarm hell has broken loose. Wild panic/ temporary insanity sets in. I smash the alarms with a hammer. Doesn’t work. 9 hours and 207 phone calls later someone turns up to fix it. Migraine induced madness means I sand walls, hang 2 paintings and blast Blaxploitation music. Go home with fire alarms going off in head all night.
Tuesday. 1 day till Private View
Need to finish 2 paintings. Paints, brushes, toolbag, chaos at the ready. Got head into curatorial ideas. Hung corridor space, arranged cabinet space and hung front end of gallery. Painted, drilled, worried about lighting.
