As I find frames a distraction I have developed a system for
exhibiting which involves gluing work onto a painted board, leaving it weighted
down with large, heavy, encyclopaedias until “set” and then cutting around the
work so that it is flush with the edge of the board. After that I spray the
work many times with a matt spray, to protect it from the elements, and attach a
hanging wire. I am sure that the work would not suffer if there were fewer applications
of the matt spray but, as ever, I err on the side of caution. It would be
terrible, after all, to sell work and find that it had been attacked some sort
of paper chewing bug in its new home.
While I have mounted many pieces of work in this way I still
find the process rather nerve wracking. After all I don’t want to ruin
something that I have slaved over for many hours by finding that there are
bubbles in the glue or that the edges of the paper are burred because the
cutting knife was not sharp enough. Consequently every new body of work is
viewed with trepidation when it comes to the time to put it all together for an
exhibition.
Since I have an exhibition coming up in October I am
currently in the “mounting” phase. I have mounted about 18, 30 x 30 cm
collagraph and lino prints without incident and need to start on the series of
smaller monotypes I have done. I meant to do them this week but have been
procrastinating, working instead on entries for a group exhibition involving
the design of wine labels.
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