manchester & fmp

this week has been SO busy but so fun! so the FMP has officially begun and we've all been decorating our desks with inspiration and ideas, which is maybe my favourite part about a project because it feels a lot more like fun than work haha. and because we've just started our Last Ever Totally Scary Project at LCA we've been encouraged to visit lots of museums and i actually got to go to two! 

last sunday i got to go to manchester to visit the museum of science and industry, which was so cool. the stuff i took photos of was mostly engines, electronics, controls, etc. which aren't very interesting so i won't show you them. it was definitely more about industry than science, which is kind of disappointing, but i still enjoyed it. it was actually chinese new year whilst we were there so we got caught up in all the parades and excitement and things, so to get away from that for a little while we ended up hiding out in the manchester art gallery (which i've written about before) and we stumbled upon the last day of a grayson perry exhibition! i love grayson perry but had no idea he was showing there, i couldn't believe it! SO COOL.

then on wednesday, i went to a local museum called the royal armouries to photograph police uniforms and riot wear (again, not very interesting) but they had this incredible little display of all the swords and daggers used in the recent hobbit films!

other than that it has been an average week, i suppose. i had my braces tightened on wednesday, and on tuesday i had to give my final project presentation. oh, and i signed up to run 3 miles for sports relief in march! i did it back 2010 and loved it so i'm doing it again this year with my sister - so excited! plus here comes honey boo boo is back! who's as excited as me?! probably no one, haha!

hope you guys had a good week. :-) 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