bradford media museum

as you all probably know, i'm an art student (which is why my blog is such a mess of themes) and spend a lot of time in museums. the media museum at bradford is one of my absolute favourites so i thought i'd share some photo's of my most recent trip!
they usually have two current featured exhibits, both of which i didn't manage to see, and their permanent exhibits, which are my favourite. the permanent exhibits take you through the worlds of television, broadcasting, animation, photography, video gaming, and lots of other exciting things. it's a really interactive museum, which i love, so there are lots of things to look through and play with. it's very colourful and exciting just to look at, which is kind of the main thing that i love about museums like this. i'm also a big fan of television and animation so i really enjoy the educational aspect.
i am awful at describing my enjoyment of artsy things so i'll just let the pictures speak for themselves. you can read more about the bradford media museum and their current exhibits here. thank you for reading! x

manchester art gallery

these are a few photo's that i took in manchester art gallery while i was there attending a university open day a few weeks ago. i got through the whole museum before seeing a little sign that indicated 'no photography' on the map - sorry! lots of other people were taking pictures though so i hope it was okay.

i unfortunately don't really have many good pictures - i spent most of my time in the art gallery getting footage for my manchester-based stop-motion - which you can watch here. i did love the gallery though! after spending years and years only visiting our lovely little leeds art gallery it was a nice change. they also had a real-life banksy, which really shocked me haha! i don't know why, i felt really star-struck around the piece. (no photo's of that either, sorry!). all of my favourite pieces in the gallery were part of a paper-art exhibit - i did a whole blog post about it, which you can read here.

thank you for reading, and i've got a lot of good posts to come in the future! xx

the first cut - paper at the cutting edge

yesterday i went to manchester to visit the manchester metropolitan university for an open day. after we had finished at mmu we decided to check out the manchester art gallery. right now they have an exhibition on called 'the first cut', which is an amazing collection of work created by artists entirely using paper. i'm a big fan of 'paper art', as i used to love things like pop-up books and origami when i was younger, so this was right up my street! everything was so delicate and beautiful, i was really blown away. the intricacy of some of the pieces was insane - i can't bear to think how long the artists must have spent labouring over their work with a craft knife. the pieces that i have shown here are my absolute faourites from the exhibit but they had a lot of other amazing work shown - such as a sculpture of a man created by carving into books, big over-sized leaves made of metal and what looked like tissue paper, maps and grenades and guns made of foreign currency, etc.

i loved this exhibit, i think it's amazing, so if you're in the manchester area then i definitely recommend checking it out. it'll be running until the 27th of january so you've got plenty of time to go see it. you can read more on the exhibit here and read more about the manchester art gallery in general here. i hope you guys like this artwork as much as i do, and i'll have a post about other things shown in the manchester art gallery sometime soon. xx