Te Summer Show’s origins the lend lease / architects’ journal awards 12


proper slice of contemporary art and architecture.’ Tere’s a growing international flavour, too, with notable increases in submissions from China and America. Devaney has also developed good relationships with commercial galleries to encourage their artists to exhibit in the Summer Show. ‘We also put a huge amount of effort into working with the BBC to create a Culture Show that covers the exhibition,’ she adds. Even with theming strategies, the ‘hang’, and the quest to impart a particular sense of pace and flow through the exhibition, is implicitly fraught. Between 10,000 and 12,000 works are submitted in March,


then are labelled, registered, bar-coded and racked. Te exhibition selection leads to a nine-day


hang preceded by Sanctioning Day – in effect, the final agreement of academicians involved in the organisation of the show. Te 1,000-plus works are then set out in grids on the gallery floors to assess their most effective arrangements. It’s not uncommon for an academician hanging one room to beg or barter a work due to be hung in another room. ‘When you put a lot of paintings together,’ explains Devaney, ‘it’s a challenge to each painting in terms of positioning and contrast.’ And, although


Above and right: the AJ’s coverage of the 1988 and 1986 Awards


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