Brick Man talk, and WW1 Case.

Curator’s Talk about Gormley’s unrealised Brick Man. Yesterday I popped down to Leeds Art Gallery to hear the lunchtime talk from Curator of Sculpture, Dr Rebecca Wade, which was about the maquette for Antony Gormley’s proposed Brick Man sculpture. Brick Man was going to be a 120 foot high piece of public art for the...

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Impressions and Insight in Bradford – plus call out for snapshots

This week I've been on a research trip to Bradford to check out photography and archives, and launched a call out for photos for a curatorial project. Africa State of Mind at Impressions My first visit was to Impressions Gallery which has been showing 'photography that gets people looking, thinking and talking' since 1972. I...

I don’t have two pound coins, or seven.

Blog Weeks 24 & 25 ( I think) - I decided to do away with labeling my posts by week number. Featured image: painting by Richard Baker at Bowery Gallery. These last two weeks have been really busy. I’ve handed in my second module of work and then managed to combine work with pleasure on...

Week 23 – How many pics of a yellow staircase do we need?

Featured image by Brian Toward. '281 kent Ramsgate Stairs' (2015). This week for my MA Curation Practices I’ve been reading a lot about photography, social media, museum archives and personal digital archiving, as part of thinking about my next module. I’ll pick out one case study that I’ve found this week that particularly interests me....

Week 22: power to the people

Above: Some common people. They're dressed as birds. I mean, would YOU let them have a say in how you run your museum? You WOULD? Ok then, very good, carry on. Photo from - "Audubon" the National Audubon Society (1899). This week I’ve had a studio visit with an artist friend. I’ve found that we...

Week Twenty – taking part in museum research, drawing as a learning tool, and the Queen defaces da Vinci.

Week twenty of my part time MA in Curation Practices. During the last week I have been Behind the Scenes at the Museum at Abbey House Museum in Leeds, visited Tropical World with my drawing group Sketch That, visited the Leeds branch of the nationwide Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition A Life in Drawing, and continued...

Week Nineteen – Mermaids, Instagram and police brutality

Featured image: Image taken from page 50 of 'The Child World. [In verse.] ... Illustrated by C. Robinson' Instagram and future historians It’s half term. Not for me, but for my son, and so this week I’ve been fitting in my studies around holiday fun activities. My research has mainly been focused on reading about...

Week Eighteen – Relax! When you wanna curate..

Above image: Maybe I should chill out and read my paper on the beach like this lady from the Nova Scotia Archives. (Photo by George Walker MacKay, no date.) Available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nsarchives/6189108165/ Work and Internships This week has been consumed by hours of reading related to my next module of coursework. I’ve also written the second...

Week Fifteen – let’s all think together

In week fifteen of my Curation Practices MA at Leeds Arts University, I carried out my 'instance of curatorial practice' (aka The Fridge Game), got my results and feedback for the first module's work that I handed in before Christmas, and was inspired by practising 'free writing'. I began the first draft of my first...