it slowly came to the whole class that the gallery show is simply not a piece of end of turn vanity and fun but a serious point where the result of our years study is accessed. It took me some time to realise this and evntually as it dawned on me I had to start to conceive how to show off my work

I belive that ‘ An Observer in Shepherds Bush Market’ is a valid and solid poiece of work that meets all the Unit 4 criteria in reserarch, conception, study, application, reflection, problem solving.

Now…… to work out how to display ithe work.

Morley Gallery is an interesting space, a well lit upstairs room divided into three sections lit by daylight with large windows, a wide corridor, and a spacious down stairs rooms and a small atrium , and a narrow corridor with one wall of hanging space.

I have the upstairs. corridor.

It is perfect for me, I will have my two long panoramas along one wall with some other prints, facing it I was planning to make an inset wall of banana boxes

I realise in the 230 m by 3.20 space, I would need 50 banana boxes, they would also be difficult to stack safely , securing them to the wall would be a problem, and transporting them from Shepherds Busha terrible and expensive effort. I realise by flattening the lids I get a strip of banana box 34 x 180, ten boxes will fill a space 2.4 m by 1.8. suffcient to make a ‘ wallpaper’ to provide a back drop to my pastels and prints

here is a mock up, the paintings and prints will be more carefully curated.

I had considered making an ‘altre’ to the market with plaster covered fabrics, I had also discussed producing T shirts that could be sold in the show. I was thankfully persuaded that it was all too much and my work could stand as it is.

I also have one large wall opposite Diana’s floral exhibit where I hope to hang my nine coloured pastes, a tribute to the range of goods in the market. A shameless tribute to Warhol, especially as the pastels give an impression of silk screened prints

They are nine A2 sheets so will cover a space 1.26 m wide and 2.55 m high. I may have to loose the borders to give me space.

Currently the two panorama prints are being framed, for the rest of the prints and paintings I will be m ounteing them on fibre board.

lessons learnt;

Think of the exhibition space carefully, especially if you produce anything os any size. .

Think of available and artificial light,

Think of how to present works

Think of the cost and time taken in framing works

I will have probably eight prints and an A1 pastel, and three A2 paitnings, and two pastels on 4mm ply, 1.4 x 0.85m. I may have to lean them on the floor