De-install Day

14th February 2014

Today Julia, Ray, Emma, Bianca, Megan, Anna, Amy, Meg and I arrived at 12pm to de-install the exhibition. We were expecting this process to last the majority of the afternoon however as a team we worked really efficiently in de-installing the exhibition and re instating the space ready for the next group. The first port of call was to remove the artwork from the space as carefully as possible and to return each artwork to the studio space. As with the process of collecting the work we returned it using the same policy, i.e the same number of people to carry the work. Once the space was cleared of artwork, we then began to remove the plinths using the trolley to again return them to where they came from. There were a few that needed retouching and so we left them in the space whilst we began to de-assemble the material structure. We first had to remove the stretches of organza and fold them as as a group we were going to keep them in a locker on site so they were at our individual disposal. Ray then using the ladder removed the hooks from the studio walls whilst I reeled the fishing wire so that Julia could use it again for her next project. Then we filled in the holes from the hooks using a small amount of white tack and the space was completely reinstated within an hour and a half. The majority of the group then left whilst Bianca, Julia, Anna and I repainted the remaining plinths. The de install was very successful as we completed it within a couple of hours. It was a shame to take down the exhibition after such hard work installing it. It would have been nice if we had been able to have our exhibition up for a week and opened it to the general public, however as there were a number of groups this was not feasible. 



Photos taken by Bianca capture the process of taking the exhibition down.