The early part of this week was taken up with installing my contemporary
Battle of Britain lace panels and the associated parachute installation at
Gawthorpe Hall in Lancashire. The hall is a beautiful old building and my work
is being shown in a lovely room with mullioned windows adjacent to a room where
the original Battle of Britain panel owned by the Gawthorpe Textile Collection
(GTC) is being exhibited. On a previous visit I had discussed with Jenny
Waterson, the Learning Curator at GTC, how the work would be displayed, so we
knew where everything would go before we started the hang. Gail Baxter had
kindly come with me to help as well so the three of us started by hanging my
three new lace panels. We discussed whether to leave them hanging straight down
the wall or set them off the wall, and decided that the shadows looked better
with the panels slightly forward from the wall. The next thing to do was to fill
the long case in the room with some background information about the panels and
some lace equipment. Once all of that was done we started hanging the parachute
installation. Although I had planned it in my mind I hadn’t had the space in my
studio to actually hang the parachutes so I was a bit apprehensive about whether
it would fit in the space and look effective. I needn’t have worried though as
the hanging system worked well and although it was time consuming the
installation looked good when it was finished – taking it down will be another
matter however! Many, many thanks to Gail and Jenny for all their help in
making it happen.
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