We decided we should find breakfast. We once again passed the amusingly titled Smut Inn, before finding the even more amusing titled cafe, M. T. Belly’s. An excellent breakfast was served with a cheerful smile, and we felt well prepared for the day ahead.
We killed a little bit of time – including placing an ultimately winning bet on Kevin Pietersen to be top England batsman in the first Ashes test – before the gallery opened again at 10. It was nice to go back, because it’s an extremely attractive venue, with friendly staff on hand to help. The John Squire exhibition took up a fair bit of space, over two main rooms. The first room housed quite large metal box sculptures, in various states of being “unpacked”. There were just five in all, but in spite of the fact that the room was quite big, they filled it extremely well, I thought. Some are roughly the size of a person, so could almost be coffins, which is slightly eerie, but I suppose the fact that in this sense they are approximately “life-sized” makes them quite congenial and familiar.
Squire has clearly placed a great deal of attention on how this exhibition will look in the space itself. He has even produced two floor tiles out of metal which fit into the floor tiles of two of the rooms, so it is almost as if he is making the rooms his own.
The second room is filled with paintings, or if not paintings, metal pieces that hang on the walls. Again, presumably intentionally, they look extremely effective in this particular gallery. The colour schemes used – greys, and browns, and other metal-type colours – fit in very well with the gallery, which is modern looking, with a grey metal roof.
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