We were not able to get into the gallery until the coordinator arrived at mid-day and we spent the next six hours getting everything up on the walls and setting up the reception desk. The gallery uses the STAT hanging system and was able to provide heavy duty cables for my long MDF pieces, so the potential weight problem was avoided.
The gallery is a ‘white cube’ with plenty of light overlooking the beach and is a really nice venue for our exhibition. We had decided on our hanging plan beforehand and things worked out really well. One decision we made when we saw the room was that we would keep the centre of the room empty and not put the print browsers or anything else in the centre. This worked very well in keeping a sense of space and light in the exhibition and it gave visitors space to stand back and look at the works from a distance.

Starting to hang the works. The unused plinths were later stored away.

Linda had the brainwave of writing the names of the artworks on masking tape attached to the bubble wrap which saved us a lot of time when packing up.

One slight hiccup was that I hadn’t been aware of the change in wall height at one end of the gallery which meant I couldn’t keep everything aligned along the whole length of the wall but I felt that if I had lowered things to fit the lower portion they would not have looked right on the higher wall. A second slight hiccup occurred when we hung Linda’s large framed photographs and two of them slipped in the frames due to the archival tape not sticking well enough which required a dismantling and re-framing early the next morning.