Link to my guest post on Leeds Museums and Galleries’ ‘Secret Lives of Objects’ blog

Here's a link to a blog post I wrote for Leeds Museums and Galleries about some volunteer work I'm involved in, co-curating a WW1 display case at the City Museum. https://secretlivesofobjects.blog/2019/07/09/bringing-ww1-photographs-to-life-in-3d/?fbclid=IwAR0bJNzrq2UFlV4TBO4HtedZNAeHuFAW34d4p_hKH4RHZPKoe2VWDZugDDk I'm working within a group of volunteers being guided by curator Lucy Moore to refresh the objects in the display case in the 'Leeds...

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End of first year of Curation Practices MA (and I feel fine)

Above: A group of student curators, hard at work harvesting a fresh batch of culture from the cultural fields of Finland. (Actually, photo credit: Kulutusosuuskuntien Keskusliiton kokoelma D1974_33_10549B. Koululaisia maatöissä jatkosodan aikana. photographer unknown / kuvaaja tuntematon 1942 Finland / Suomi Finnish Museum of Photography / Suomen valokuvataiteen museo ). It’s the end of my first academic year studying...

Whatever I feel like I want to do, gosh! – a photobook

Recently I have been working on a photobook called Whatever I feel like I want to do, gosh! which contains photographs donated by 12 members of the public. The photos show themselves when they were younger, experimenting with new styles, trying out makeup, hair and fashion, and creating their own unique visual identity. the author,...

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...

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...