Modulations: Cantata Reconfigured is the Ashburton Art Gallery's first touring exhibition. It opened here at the AAG in July 2007 and has since been hosted by the Southland Museum & Art Gallery where it was visited by over 10,000 people. The exhibition then travelled to The Forrester Gallery in Oamaru (incredible historic building on the main Street of Oamaru) and is now at the Eastern Southland Gallery (often refered to as the Goregenheim, apologies if my spelling is incorrect). Lyn is currently suffering from back, neck and hand pain mostly due to the huge amount of work which went into making hundreds of individually painted embroidery hoops for the Gore show. This illustrates the evolving nature of the show as it travels from one space to another. I have found this to be a particularly interesting example of how artists work, particularly because I find myself trying to explain to visitors to the Gallery about an artists practice and how they go about developing a series of exhibitions. For example, Niki Hastings-McFall's show Polysynthesis features items of 70s furniture smothered with lei flowers. Many visitors seem to have the impression that this is the only kind of work the artist does - furniture and flowers. I think perhaps that Lyn Plummers touring exhibition, being as well documented as it is, would be a great example of how a concept can move and grow and the significance of the space to each leg of the tour. Well just an idea at this stage, much more thought to be put in yet.