Bloody exhibitionist...

 Yep, that's me. Posing next to my completed builds at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, in readiness for tomorrow night's opening of the What's in the toybox? exhibition.

But here's where it all started two and a half hours earlier, when I arrived after a one-hour drive from Canberra:

I'd dropped my 'work*' off last Friday and knew at the time that I'd need to make another trip to put it all together before the opening.

Lovely Goulburn Regional Art Gallery had my plinth and perspex case in place, a table ready for me to work on, and...

 AFTERNOON TEA!

(That was a bit special and unexpected. I now want to be in every exhibition they mount.)

At 3 pm I was a bit worried.

 But soon was on a roll, recreating a version of something I'd made two years ago.

Here are some progress shots (because, even as a blogger on a deadline, you need to stop and take photographs, don't you?)

 Tucked in my corner, things started to come together,

 while the gallery staff finished other parts of the exhibition in the background.

And then, just on closing time, I was done.

(And the lovely staff stayed five minutes late to help me load the pieces into my display case.)

(* Because it was my work, but it was a kitset work, not a completed work at that stage.)

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What's in the Toybox exhibiton

27 November - 24 December 2015

An exhibition of works particularly for children but also suitable for adults in need of a little nostalgia in the lead up to Christmas.  From original book illustrations to colourful sculptures and hand-made wooden toys by local Goulburn Woodworkers, there's something  in the toybox to delight everybody.

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery

Civic Centre, Bourke Street

Goulburn N.S.W.

Tel. 02 4823 4503

Open Monday - Friday 10 am – 5 pm,   Saturday 1 pm – 4 pm  (Closed Sunday and Public Holidays)