Saturday, December 10, 2011

String Theory Exhibition

Feels like years ago that I booked the exhibition space at the central library in the city centre.  Today was the day that I could finally hang my paintings and see them in a bigger setting than my front bedroom-come-storage-depot.

List of paintings

Exposed String Triptych II. Acrylic and emulsion with plaster on canvas, 50cm x 76 cm, 2011
Exposed String Triptych III. Acrylic and emulsion with plaster on canvas, 50cm x 76 cm, 2011
With My Body. Acrylic and emulsion with plaster on calico. 1m x 1m. 2011
Til Death. Acrylic and emulsion with plaster on canvas. 50cm x 76cm. 2011
I Thee Endow. Acrylic and emulsion with plaster on calico. 1m x 1m. 2011
Holy Ordinance. Acrylic, emulsion and card on calico. 32cm x 43cm. 2011
Faith. Acrylic, emulsion and card on calico. 32cm x 43cm. 2011
God. Acrylic, emulsion and card on calico. 32cm x 43cm. 2011
Companion. Acrylic, emulsion and card on calico. 32cm x 43cm. 2011
String Theory. Oil and acrylic with plaster on canvas. 1m x 1.4m. 2001-2010
String Theory II. Acrylic and string with plaster on canvas. 1m x 1.4m. 2010-2011
Rigging. String, acrylic & cardboard with papier-mâché on canvas, 53cm x 74cm, 2011
Headship. String, acrylic & cardboard with papier-mâché on canvas, 53cm x 74cm, 2011
Immeasurable Love. Acrylic & plaster on canvas, 55cm x 76cm, 2011.
My_People. Acrylic, cardboard and papier-mâché on canvas, 69cm x 26cm, 2011
I Pledge. String, plaster and acrylic on canvas, 53cm x 90cm, 2011
Circle. Acrylic and string on canvas, 53cm x 90cm, 2011
Relationship. Acrylic, string and card on canvas, 30cm x 40cm, 2011
Lodge. Acrylic, string, card and papier-mâché on canvas. 38cm x 72cm. 2011,
Shifting Shadows Acrylic, string, card and papier-mâché on canvas. 38cm x 72cm. 2011.

I'd also made some small mounted miniature copies of my sketchbook pages to put into the display cases, along with a blurb about the project itself.

Paintings waiting to be loaded into car. (I still love that Jeff Lynne picture)
I enlisted the help of my dad, as he has a bigger car than me, to help transport and set up the paintings. We arrived at the exhibition room at 9am.  I laid out the paintings roughly in an order from first to last, then tweaked them to add some symmetry to each wall.  After adding name tag/price information to each image, my father and I hung each picture, steadily marrying up the hook and eyes of the hanging system.  The building is listed so none of the walls are allowed to be screwed into or have anything stuck onto them, including tape/blue tac etc. The labels then had to be stapled to the bottom of each painting.

Photo-montage of exhibition space.
After we'd finished I took some photographs.  Looking at the paintings in that room was such a thrill.  I know it's not a really flash gallery, and I know it's not in London, there won't be any influential art critics going along to a library in Hull to see my exhibition. However, I am really excited and chuffed with the results. 

Photo-montage of  exhibition space.
I never set out to sell any of the paintings, I did them because I wanted to paint, but seeing them in that space just made me feel like maybe I could make a living from art. I'd be happy to have them seen, if someone buys one I'll b over the moon. 

Cornered

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4 comments:

  1. I'm thrilled to say I own a piece from the collection :-)

    It looks amazing and I wish you all the luck in the world with the exhibition - you deserve it for all the hard work you put in.

    Bx

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  2. The other two paintings that go with yours are labelled in the exhibition "Exposed String II" and "Exposed String III".. you have "Exposed String". So there is something nice about the first one not being there. Especially with Headship being in the exhibition and that being based on one of your photos.

    I'm really excited I wish I could hear all the comments from people as they look at the paintings. I'm going to ask me dad to go in and listen to peoples comments and report back to me.. haha.. also tomorrow I'm going to drop in a guestbook for people to sign with comments. It'll b interesting the feedback I get. I think the only thing different I'd do is do more, maybe make something cos they had some really nice display cases and I have nothing to put in them. I reduced down some copies of my sketchbook pages and displayed them. but there was loads of empty shelves and I think that had I made some lettering they would have looked ace! on those display (you know like the letter I made you? or the one I did for school?)

    Thanks for your wishes. It's such a shame you can't get over to see it. I know you would love it..

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  3. Here I am Baz, on Christmas break from college, catching up on blog-reading. I am absolutely delighted for you, as you know, with your exhibition. I think I can imagine how thrilling it must be to see your paintings displayed so professionally (with your Dad's help!) and in one place.

    It all looks so amazing, I so wish I could see it in person. I wish you the best of luck and I am sure you will sell!

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  4. Hi Dolly, thanks

    It's amazing to see them in one room Dolly. I've only ever seen them up close up so to see them as someone else will see them is thrilling. Also the space is really nice.. intimate and cosy.. I feel really pleased with it. I'm not sure if any painting has a bid on yet. I'm off next week so i'm going to go in and see if I can listen in on convo's of people viewing the pictures.. hehe

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