Putting up the exhibition

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Putting up the exhibition today took us as much time as we expected it to, roughly 5 hours. Most of us met at 10:30am (Eloise, Beki, Adele, Ana, Lydia and I) in order to find the gallery together and begin to put up our exhibition. We were really disappointed that despite it being our exhibition day the other group members were not there, and did not arrive until after 1 o clock. This meant a lot of waiting around for the rest of the group, we put a selection of our work up, but as we were waiting on 44 more triangles it was going to be difficult to mix them up if we put too many up before they arrived. We had to wait around a lot but once they finally got to the gallery we managed to get it up quite quickly as a group. 

When we first arrived in the gallery we were a little stressed and a little disappointed as it wasn't what we were expecting it to look like. The lighting wasn't great but we knew we would make do as best as we could. 

The shape of our installation was always going to be unknown until we got into the gallery, however we did not realise how much the actual gallery space and walls would take their toll on our piece of work. We found that the main wall in which we wanted to install our piece was actually no good as we could not hammer anything into it, it was even falling apart and very delicate. In the end the gallery space almost told us how and where we could create our installation. 

Once we had put up our exhibition we realised that the lack of light at our end of the gallery was actually an advantage to our work because this meant that the light didn't bounce off our the perspex. Our work was installed at the front of the gallery and this was good as it meant it was both the first and last piece to be seen.