MacroArt – along with clients RFA Design and Matt Langstaff – have overcome a number of technical and design challenges to deliver a new visitor experience for Colchester Castle’s ‘Decoding the Dead’ exhibition.
The exhibition is sited in the iconic Charles Grey Room, part of the scheduled monument and Grade I listed building, which meant that no wall fixings were permitted. In addition, the freestanding works needed to be easy to erect, take down and reuse for future exhibitions, as well as demonstrate strong environmental credentials.
Having devised a freestanding grey background ‘wall’ for the specific graphics in collaboration with Aluvista, a system of rails, brackets and hanging kits was created to ensure that they could be displayed without compromising the reusable backdrop. This allowed all the exhibition graphics to be mounted whilst keeping the overall framework pristine and ready for future reuse.
In all, a two-day installation saw almost 100m2 of panels and graphics fitted to help inform and guide visitors through the exhibition, including self-adhesive vinyl prints, label captions for the showcases, TFS entrance banners, and prints.
“As our preferred graphics contractor, MacroArt played a significant role in the delivery of all parts of this project – not only in terms of graphic production but also in designing and supplying the tailor-made aluminium framework around which the new exhibition was developed. They also excelled at providing a complete installation service for all elements. We are extremely happy with yet another on-time, on-budget and impeccable result,” said Andrew Galvin, director of RFA Design.
