Birmingham Exhibition Visit

Birmingham Exhibition Visit

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

As I didn't go to the London trip with the University, I wanted to visit a gallery to see what is being shown.

Going to Birmingham galleries was really fun as it gave me more of an insight into the way they curate the exhibitions and different artworks that are shown.

I started off by visiting the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, although it isn't soul'ly art it was really interesting seeing the different historical artifacts. Also as I am looking at different categories for my receipts it was good to see the way they categorize there artifacts and various pieces of information. One of the ways they categorized the history was to present it in date order. I might have a look at date order in my receipts and see how far I can go with it.

As I walked into the museum there was a really good piece of installation art at the entrance, this is what it looked like:

A side veiw

Looking down

I liked this piece because we are able to look at this piece at different angles. One of the most interesting angles that I captured when viewing this was when standing underneath it. This is what looking up at it looked like:

Looking up at it

This blew me away because it captured the sunlight and it looked like some type of entrance or exit from a bubble.

Walking around I also saw a few more intriguing pieces of art:

This was a painting with oils, I want to start a painting as I have made a canvas and was looking for some inspiration in order to start and I really like the use of layers and oil colours within this piece of art.

This piece raised alot of questions for me as I didn't really know what it was at first and thought it was some type of war sculpture. But, when getting to read the statement from the artist it said that it was a sculpture relating to a rock drill reconstruction! but it did have a war history to it as well so I mustn't have been too far off!

I really enjoyed walking around the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery! I even saw an insight into an artists sketchbook which showed us the way they work before producing large scale artworks.

This is a sketch from an artist sketchbook, it was really detailed!

The New Library Of Birmingham

The reason why I wanted to visit the Birmingham library is because I knew there was a piece of art from one of my tutors, Anna Francis.

The piece of art was called 'Birder's Paradise'. This piece is all about looking at different species of birds and trying to spot them throughout the library. At the beginning there was a small booklet I picked up where I had to walk around the library and match the birds that we saw as I walked around with the ones in the booklet.

Here is some of the birds that I found when walking around the library:

This was actually a really fun activity that I could do as I walked around the library!

The final thing I had to do was to find my own bird book and draw the bird on the booklet and jot down the author and the book title.

I really liked the interactive element to this piece of art as it got the viewers to walk around and be aware of their surroundings.

This is what the entrance of the hut looked like where Anna's piece was and where they stored old books that were not wanted:

I really enjoyed this trip! Defiantly going to go back to see new exhibitions as the arise.

Might take a trip to Manchester nest to view their exhibitions!