The trials and tribulations of pre-degree show life.
The catalogues that we had so carefully designed and then had printed were wrong – we had missed one person out- couldn't be much more disasterous.
Know we had everyone in at first draft but when printed some pages came out blurred so we had to re-do about 20 pages and re-save in high resolution, it took a full day and the pressure was on as they were due to start printing the next day. I have no idea how it happened but poor Phil got left out of the final draft. The worst part is that I didn't notice!!Many tears shed over this.
Fortunately there was an empty page at the back (for obvious reasons now) so the printers have taken them all back, will re-print the whole front/back page and restaple the books together.
No idea on costs yet but I have been assured they will be ready on time – they are 90% sure :(
Then there was the gallery, my work takes up a huge amount of space, more than originally planned but the storage room we built was further away from the wall than I had planned and the curator of the gallery needs 4.5ft between each plinth for some health and safety reason to get the ceiling lights positioned, so it's all kinda extended and looks enormous, very scary to see the amount of space I now have to fill but I think it would look odd with someone else's work placed at the end of mine anyway so it's a good thing.
We are so lucky with the Gallery, it's a fantastic space and we're not all crammed together as in some places but there have been tears from other people over allocated spaces, rightly so in many cases. I think they may all be resolved now, by resoved I don't mean that people are necessarily happy but it all seems to flow well right now so we have to see if it's still the same with the work actually up. Friday's opening night….soooo close now…eeeek
