Vertical Gallery and Salon Hang

There are hundreds of combinations and ways that this work could potentially be hung. I have this wall that is 3m wide by 6m tall and this gives quite a lot of room to play around with. The TV’s have already been selected and therefore these sizes are also set. To plan how this will all fit on the wall I have had to measure the size of the images as they will appear on the screen. With these measurement I've been able to calculate how big these frames will be. I wanted to keep the boarders of these frames and equal distance across all of the screens I was working with. measuring how long the largest distance from the edge of the image and the edge of the tv gave me the set size of the boarder for all the frames. Once I had all of these measurement I could begin loading them into Google Sketch-Up and start planning accurately, how this would look on the wall. In Sketch Up I have been creating various plans to submit to the gallery team. I’ve found it incredibly useful to have this tool that allows me to try hundreds of options with out having to commit to any thing permanent or having to carry on drawing out plans. 

The images that I have selected have somewhat dictated how I am places these frames on the wall. I’ve selected four of the images of the strongest images that I’ve created and the images that I feel will work best on a large scale. These are images that really challenge the idea of the painting and the photograph. They are the images that will fool you the most especially on this larger scale. Two of the images were selected for the interim show so I knew how they would work in an exhibition space as well as two other images that really came together when making the work. I think that this illusion is mainly created by finding images that were all shot at relatively similar angles and perspectives. This all comes together to create a believable image that is filled with uncertainty. I love the idea of seeing these images at a glance before getting closer and closer and feeling them fall apart. 

I had one 60”, two 47” and one 42” sized screens. This larger screen is a lot larger by quite some distance. Working out what image would go on this screen became a challenge. The space was just the right size for this section of screens but I quickly realised that with the 60” in a landscape orientation it would have taken up a huge amount of space. Luckily the wall that I have been assign is 6m tall and gave me a lot of room to work with. Conveniently enough one of my images were portrait orientated and it made sense to put this image on the larger screen and attach the screen at a 90 degree angle. I decided to place the most delicate image that had the more of an intricate feel on the smallest screen. I felt that this image needed to be experiences at the closest distance. The way that my image had been constructed mean that there were some really interesting contrasts of texture and interlocked shades and shadows. By coming up close to the screen i’d hope that all of these would be revealed. And of course the two other images could both a happily fit on the medium size TV’s 

I am quite constrained by the sizes of TVs. The images I've selected are made up of two that are predominately blue and two that are predominately full of oranges and yellow. After experimenting with placements on sketch up I felt that it was best to split these images at at diagonal. This felt the most comforting to the eye, and in breaking up the images it reenforced the feel of the salon hang. I wanted the screens to be placed as if they weren't attached to any grid at all, in actual fact creating this was a lot harder than it sounded. The sizes and shapes of the tv frames meant that they were constantly overlapping or matching at certain intersections. I found various solutions but felt concerned about the heights at which these images will be shown. From top to bottom these screens would be nearly 3 meters tall. Parts of these images would either have to be very high or very low.  I think that this isn't really something that I can truly work out until I am actually hanging the work. But if I have all the other distances of the the hang then I don't think that this will be too complicated when it comes to the install. 

I feel really pleased with the plans I have so far and cant wait to get in to the gallery to carry out the install. Unfortunately this is going to be past the deadline for my FMP hand in so therefore I wont be able to submit images of the installation. But I feel that these careful plans show what I am trying to achieve. There has been a lot of stuff to sort out in regards to clearing plans with various gallery staff and technicians. Ive been having to work with three different departments of Tech + (AV Store, Wood Work and Gallery Team|) to arrange this installation and its been quite testing at times but I feel that I've approached it at a very grounded confident level. These things always take longer that you'd imagine, one thing that has really pushed the time scale back was not having access to the TV’s and being able to take measurement for the TVs until the last week of FMP. This doesn't matter to much as my deadline for installation and hanging is a couple weeks past this date but I still would have liked to include the final results in this journal. Although, this has freed up my time and allowed me to concentrate more on my Holden gallery proposals and my portfolio.