Hanging Exhibition

On our second day of hanging our exhibition we knew what we needed to to, because we had already decided how and where to hang our work in the gallery space.

We began by attaching mirror plates to the back of Lucy and Rose's paintings (mine were hung on the wall the previous day).

We all worked as a team to make sure the paintings were perfectly straight and looked right on the walls before drilling. It was definitely a job for four sets of eyes. Three of us may have decided that the painting was straight and then the fourth would pipe up and say 'oooh, no maybe the right side needs to come up half a millimetre'. It was quite amusing to find out how much of a difference half a millimetre makes on the wall and how obsessive we all became in a gallery space. Ofcourse I don't think thats a bad thing at all! We had to make it as perfect as we could. I was really proud of how well we all worked together!

Rose's wall was tiled. We worried that the tiles make crack whilst drilling. Some internet instructions suggested we drilled into the grouting between the tiles. However when we looked... there wasn't much grouting left. The tiles were over 200 years old you see. But we managed in the end without causing any damage and Rose's paintings looked even better when hung at eye level.

Then we began work with Lucy's paintings. The drilling was much less stressful because it was a brick wall.

Lucy was also considering bringing her 7ft painting into the exhibition to be displayed above the window. Although we knew this would be a challenge to lift it to this height we measured the wall to see it the painting would fit. It would have been a squeeze but possible. Lucy decided in the end not to bring the painting in.