exhibition setup

[helenic]

We're on the Foundry website! It's real! And we're nearly there! Most of this week and weekend is being spent frantically finishing everything. Kristen and I are going to be bringing everything left at her flat in Maidenhead back with us on the train on Saturday, which will be tricky, but since neither of us drive it's our only option. After that, we just have to work out how to get it from the Catcave to the Foundry.

We'll be able to start work installing the exhibition from 2pm on Tuesday afternoon, and the work will all need to be completed by 6pm. We won't get any help from the venue, so the afternoon will be an entertaining one of painting the walls, drilling holes and hanging hooks, sticking up titles and prices, arranging sculptures and canvasses, and working out how to suspend things from the ceiling. It'll be hard work but lots of fun, hopefully.

The Foundry have offered to let us bring all our gear on Sunday evening, so that it can be left there until we arrive on Tuesday to set everything up (they're completely closed on Monday). This would mean that if any of our friends who drive are able to help us transport artworks from Archway to Old Street, then we could do so outside of working hours, which makes things slightly more flexible. However, we would need to turn up with all our stuff after the bar had closed on Sunday - between 10.30pm and midnight would be best. Kristen will need to have gone back to Maidenhead by then for work on Sunday, so if we are taking stuff over on Sunday it'll be just me.

It would be really really useful if any of our friends were able to help with setting the exhibition up, and love/beer/presents would be happily given in return if you wanted to be part of it :) Would anyone be available and willing to help with any of the following?

- driving paintings/sculptures from Archway Road (N19 3TT) to the Foundry (EC2A 3JL) on Sunday night, aiming to get there by 11pm - it's about a half hour drive. We wouldn't have more than a carload; if you had a car in which the back seats could be put down, that would be ideal as paintings could be laid flat.
- driving the rest of the artworks to the Foundry on Tuesday, aiming to get there by 2pm.
- if you don't drive, helping us carry paintings/sculptures down to the taxi on Sunday or Tuesday (one of the sculptures is heavy and fragile, and will take some care to move).
- lending us tools to hang paintings - an electric drill and hammer would be particularly useful
- coming along on Tuesday afternoon to help vandalise do creative DIY in our corner of the Foundry (Kristen and I will act as creative directors so you don't have to have any ideas unless you want to, but since we're quite short on time it would be fantastic to have an extra pair of hands to help with the physical work).
- distributing flyers around your London workplace, or pubs/coffeeshops etc this weekend

If there aren't any drivers available then we can make do with taxis, but if we could get even one lift there on either day then it would make it far, far easier and cheaper. Please let us know if you're around at either of these times and able to help out! Free drinks at the launch party and similar boons are available in exchange - as well as our deep gratitude and the chance to be involved in an art project which is extremely special for us, and hopefully fun and exciting for everyone else :)

And for everyone else, a reminder: the exhibition is set up on Tuesday 21st, but the launch party will be the evening of Wednesday 22nd, from 6pm (I'm not sure what time we'll be arriving). There will be interesting and entertaining music by kilinrax, locally brewed beer, and lots of art as well as ours - but of course, ours is going to be the most interesting. Do invite friends, family, co-workers, and rich people.

If you can't make the launch, the exhibition is open until Sunday 2nd September. I'll be there on the evenings of the 21st, the 22nd, the 23rd (maybe) and the 24th, so I doubt I'll be able to give any other guided tours. You are, of course, welcome to look round in your own time, or turn up on any of those nights to say hello :)

Comments

[drreagan.livejournal.com]

I won't be in town for the opening night - but I do plan to drop in the next weekend and ogle your pretty things :-P

[tim-skellington.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the exhibition and while i hope you get tons of interest, i am hoping you don't sell the angel pic cos i wantses it ;)

[fire-brand.livejournal.com]

Should all go to plan this weekend - I reckon I'll be around Tuesday afternoon to come help out with the set up!

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Hooray! They are very ogleable :D

[libellum.livejournal.com]

The Angel pic isn't being exhibited I don't think - I did it the first day of painting with Kristen, so it's influenced by her style, but it wasn't actually collaborative. (And it's for sale on etsy.com, unlike all the exhibition pieces). If you're serious about wanting to buy it, let me know and we can sort something out :)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Ara is hopefully helping out as well, so it should be girly and giggly and creative :) Are you able to come up to the Catcave beforehand to help load? Let us know if you can make it, you'll be welcome from about 12.30 I guess :) Thankyou so much! xx

[fire-brand.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I'll be able to come help you move, but I will if I possibly can! Talk to me later about arrangements :)

[tim-skellington.livejournal.com]

Oh i am serious about it! Just need to sort finances :)

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

Won't be able to come tonight, as vectorious is out, but I definitely intend to make it at some point.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Prod people, gently or firmly, to plug this on their blogs too... I can't believe that my (rightly) obscure LJ is the only mention of K-nesis!