Out of the Ordinary

I attended the ‘Out of the Ordinary’ Exhibition at the Sheffield Museum, which was based on a selection of artist influenced by everyday objects showing different prospective. The artwork work has been careful laid out almost like a maze, due to the many corners and walls. I was mostly influenced by Lu Shangzong, ‘The Book of Humanity’.



This was an outstanding and beautiful installion featuring thousands of repeated hand cut out figures with scissors using red tissue paper, which symbolises Good Luck. My experience of the exhibition was inspiriting and overwhelming

Mary Kelly: Projects, 1973-2010

I attended the Mary Kelly exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery. The layout of the exhibition was bare and exposed and the artist was very particular about placing things on the walls so she only displayed the title and year of the artwork. The exhibition was a combination of white, black and Grey with spotlights highlighting all the work. I found the ‘Habitus, 2010’ most intriguing because it demonstrates and recounts memories of the generation born during and after World War 2. The structure of the mock up is of an Anderson home shelter that was massed produced because of the air raids in the War. The text can be read by looking down underground into its mirrored floor, which talks about the; Holocaust, Hiroshima and the Vietnam War.

Walls are talking

On the 19th August, I attended an exhibition at the whitworth art gallery,'Walls are talking' in Manchester. The exhibition featured many different wall papers both traditional and contemporary, it was almost like they were laid out as a time line. I was particularly inspired by the illustrative nature of some of the designs because of the risk taking of the designer when they left so much white space, so it becomes a statement which draws the audiences attention to the image
















Emily-Dupen-Hopkins,'Housewive',2009