It hardly seems like a week has passed since the closing view of Edgelands at the Museum of East Anglian Life. I was there from 1400 to meet and greet the last visitors from the public until 1630 and then there was another closing view to shows guests of the High Sheriff of Suffolk around the exhibition space. All in all a very exhausting afternoon and evening.

I then attended the High Sheriff’s Awards ceremony to make some pictures of how events are catered for in the Museum’s marquee followed by a fidgety night’s sleep. I was awake before dawn and hoofed it down to the van hire site and ably assisted by Great Uncle Peter all the ‘relatively’ light package crates got loaded and then off to Stowmarket to find the lift had broken down so it was case of hauling the crates up the Queen Anne staircase.

Terry who helped put the exhibition up had taken a day off work to help take it down and James the new intern was conscripted into the well oiled team. I was so thankful for Lisa drafting in the the Steam Engine team to carry the full crates down the stairs. I doubt I could have done it with just GUP.

Saturday was spent filling my 66 small screw holes and painting until I saw the shadows created by the residence of 8 months so the painting job got a bit  bigger but it was sorted by 1500 on Saturday and that frankly left me feeling a tad deflated.

I’ve been there before with a longish exhibition when I showed at Ipswich Art School Gallery in 2013 as part of ‘equals’. That was 3 and a half months and the walls looked really bare when we tore the work down. Imagine how two galleries looked after 8 months!

Now I’, m looking forward to the next show at The Freudian Sheep. It opens on 9th April and I have some Lindisfarne images on show there followed by Contradictions at Thornham Magna at the end of May. No rest yet.