Studio: Placement within Exhibition Designs

Going into the gallery to see how we would suspend the mild steel piece:

• I will hang it from this metal tubing directly above where I designed my metal mild steel piece to hang from! It fits perfectly in with my designs!

• Above is a view of my space (back wall is where the silver leaf painting would go, then the palette painting on the floor, and then just before the light at the top is where I hang my mild steel piece from. 

Google Sketch-up Designs

Working on the Google sketch design: 

Final Designs:

Reflections & Why I have chosen this placement:

• Hanging the mild steel piece in the middle of the gallery like this really works to force the viewer to walk around it, so that they have to view the other side of the welding. When they walk into the gallery space they will see the raw welded side of the back of the 'canvas', and then they will walk around it see the process of  heat distortion and what welding can do to the metal. 
• This way, having the three 'paintings' working together like this, forcing the viewer to walk around them to have a closer look, and see the connection between all three images. 
• It's important for me to display my three paintings together, as they work together to display paintings as sculpture. 
• The paintings work in this room-style approach, as well, as this format of three creates a room/ gallery-style viewing approach, and reinforces this commercial gallery style setting. 

Who's work is nearby?

• Kenness is to the left of my work, her work at the moment she is not sure whether to build a brick wall or print out an image of a Chinese house. I think the brick wall effect would work really well with the raw materials of my own work, however, if she chooses to print out an image of a building then this wouldn't disrupt my work anyway. She will also be having a film playing which will not disrupt my work as the spacing is far enough that the viewer will experience mine and her work separately. 
• If Orinta has her red lights and performance in Project Space + then these will work really nicely with my stainless steel on the floor, which will reflect red in the shiny metal, and against the monochrome canvas, and mild steel piece.