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It’s always a difficult exhibition to hang because you’ve got so many works of very
different kinds. Basically this flat plan here, shows that it’s basically a spacing
exercise, so that’s the first thing we do, just to make sure that they’ll all fit in
the space.
What we aim to do is put the large works at certain points in the exhibition to give vistas
and they draw the visitor into the exhibition. We put them in places that they can be seen
from a distance. For example, this back wall here, we put a large work here.
We usually put a large work just as you come into the space. And then we group the smaller
works in between. It’s quite challenging and you often find that a little work with
a very powerful composition can be quite disruptive in the exhibition.
In a particular year, there’ll be particular themes running though them, but you don’t
want to group those thematically, it would look awful. So we tend not to do that. Also,
we don’t group works in particular styles, we keep them separate and we mix them up.
We do vary the colours and techniques so that they complement each other, we don’t want
a whole wall of neutral colours, we want to punctuate it with brighter colours and we
don’t want some of the smaller works to get lost within the space. It takes quite
a long to finalise the hang.