Williams and Hill truck

Williams and Hill truck, originally uploaded by storey_gallery.

There is something strangely satisfying seeing a truck full of art works arrive at your back door. After months of planning, all of those emails come to fruition, the gallery fills slowly with a swath of anonymous crates all shapes and sizes...

Well if I am honest they are not all shapes they are mostly rectangular...

They're not anonymous either they have big labels with their names on them...

Some of the work was uncreated. Laura Ford's Boy Storey II was gently carried through to the gallery wrapped lovingly in a furniture blanket and balanced perfectly on the movers hip. It didn't take long to unload, the gallery filled up quickly and I had a little panic about the size of a few things.

I need not of worried, the Storey Gallery has a spooky ability to swallow large works like white bait - head first and with very little effort. It's very likely Picasso's Guernica would be dwarfed by the gallery's
spacial illusions.

To date everything has been unpacked, apart from the delicate Yoko's which remain safely wrapped in their felt shrouds. Nick and Simon have been busy hanging most of the wall based work and beardy Jeff has pretty much completed Mika Rottenbergs shipping container.

Its coming together, only Matthew Houldings left to arrive.