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'WHERE EAGLES TREMBLE' HANGING AND PRESS PREVIEW AFTERNOON

Published: 6/4/2009

File under: Exhibition News

On Monday 30th March, Hannah and I set off to hang the ‘Where Eagles Tremble’ exhibition. Mews of Mayfair is in Lancashire Court, a cute little hidden away courtyard situated just off New Bond Street down a little alley way that runs alongside Mui Mui. It’s also accessible by going past Hush from Brook Street, or from Grosvenor Street. The space is a disused shop that was acquired by Mews but never used since; Eyestorm are the first to occupy it as a gallery space so we’d had it all painted white and made nice the previous week ready to put the work on the wall on the Monday.

We’d had an idea of where each work was going a couple of weeks before; since the space is so characteristic with little walls and windows, nooks and crannies, it was fairly easy to decide where each piece should be placed as it just depended where it fitted! All went pretty smoothly and we’d even got the labels up on the wall by the end of the day.

Tuesday and Wednesday morning we did some finishing touches, including hanging a painting in the downstairs bar at Mews. Wednesday in the afternoon there was a three hour press preview when journalists from national newspapers, magazines, websites and radio stations chatted to Vic Reeves one by one about his working practice and the concept behind The Alan Todd Story, the fictional tale that all the paintings are based around. During this time Vic also hand painted a sign to be hung outside the space advertising the show, which we then nailed to the front of the shop.

Once the press had finished, Vic and I sat down for a well deserved glass of wine before guests started turning up for the evening. Read about the private view here!

Angie Davey
Creative Director

In Association with the Institute of Contemporary Arts

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