Recently I've been putting up my work for the degree show. I have quite a bit of space so am presenting quite a bit of work. I'm starting by putting my main series of work that I made specifically with this exhibition in mind in the centre of the space. This is 45 drawings in a 9x5 grid, each pinned up in each corner. This is influenced by the way Zak Smith presents his series of work such as A Drawing for Every Page of Gravity's Rainbow and Girls and Octopuses where he grids and pins large series of work simply with pins. I used very small thin dress pins to pin this series up to keep focus on the drawings, this lead to a lot of the pins bending but this actually fitted with the sketchy crude aesthetic of my drawing style.
Next, 180 pins later, I set to composing the work around it. This was hard especially as I couldn't try to many visually without covering my walls with various marks. I was attempting to get a balance of colour and size on either side but not being overly symmetrical because that's boring  and doesn't suit my sketchy rough style. After playing around a bit and discussing various compositions with my course mates I settled on the one that sounded best and doable. I pinned in my 'neater' work that was A6 or over with the same pins as my main series. For my smaller work I used double sided sticky tabs as they were so small that a pin or nail could ruin the tiny image. For the series of work you can see on the right I used larger nails to attach them to the wall. This is because these works are a lot rougher and more chaotic (hence the scattered layout), using delicate little pins didn't seem right while larger (only slightly) nails have more of a rougher affect that suits the aesthetic of the series.


The last pieces I put up were the A8 series of work I had made. I put them along the bottom of all my space with a large spacing between each of the 14 images to try and bring all these separate series of my works together. On the shelf bellow my work are my two books. Hopefully this is only temporary though as I plan to put a shelf/ledge in to hold them. This would hopefully bring more gravitas to my books, especially my comic which may otherwise be overlooked or overwhelmed by my other works.