Day 2 - Exhibition Setup - Saturday

On the Saturday, due to be the opening of the exhibition, I came in around 1pm to find not alot was going on, the morning team had printed off the descriptions for the work and had proceeded to mount them. I was informed that overnight some of the work had fallen down a little probably due to the combination of fishing wire, sellotape and the inside heat so I made it my first task to repair this problem.

I was annoyed however to discover that the morning team had done a poor DIY job on the work, re-taping it using black and blue tape with no regard to the finished appearance which just undermined the clean floating effect of the work. I quickly rectified this problem and put the work back to its correct state.

I discussed the many small issues to do with the day to day running of the exhibition with Sav, especially in the absence of team leaders to which he agreed with me would be a good idea to put up a list of guidelines for whoever was in on that certain day to follow. These tasks included general cleaning and maintenance of the exhibition as well as a few guidelines towards the running of the show daily. We called these the ’10 commandments’ which can be seen in the photos taken for Saturday.

Despite the lack of attendance on the Friday, there was a better turn out on the Saturday to help with the final stages of the setup which by closing time Saturday was almost complete. A few changes were made by myself to improve the exhibition including the hanging of the sheet previously used to cover the sofa, the rectifying of the badly patched work as previously stated and the addition of a few other small touches to improve the overall look.

I stayed late after closing along with Sav to clear up the mess left over from the days finalising of the exhibition layout. During this time Mariana dropped by and helped us solve a few unresolved issues regarding layout and presentation to give the exhibition a more professional look overall. We wrote all the jobs down on a ‘To do’ list and labelled them accordingly in respect to which day each task had to be completed by. As I was not back in until Wednesday and Sav would not be in for the few days to follow, it was important that these tasks were completed.