The Leeds Print festival opened on Friday 1st. As a part of the exhibition we were hosting our GF Smith printed collection and I popped down on Friday morning to volunteer setting it up.
The four hours that passed consisted of hammering nails and readjusting images to make the seamless 'flushed' look work and the colours run into each other. All of this whilst organising the works according to their placements in the GF Smith colour plan book and re writing lists and orders again and again. Then cleaning each frame inside and out, removing all the smudges and finger prints, then lovingly, gingerly, placing the frame back onto the wall before checking the straightness of each frame with a spirit level. You would never realise how difficult it is to get everything aligned properly until you find yourself painstakingly tapping nails up or down by millimeters just to get all the frames level, and oddly finding it satisfying.
I really enjoyed the work I put into this exhibition, the downside of course meant I could never see it completed for the first time but I think I have a greater appreciation of knowing what it looked like at each stage and knowing the work that went behind hanging each image.
With certainty this is something I want to do again, I really enjoyed the meticulous precision and effort required for something seemingly simple. Organising, hands on work and an appreciation for the work at the end. Yeah I do want to hang, and perhaps curate an exhibition in the future.
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