Castle Foundry

Today we visited the Castle Foundry in Liverpool’s flourishing Baltic Triangle area, in recent years it has become a busy area of art and creatives alongside popular coffee shops and businesses.The Foundry is a huge studio space dedicated to bronze casting, a process that today I discovered, involves many layers of work to achieve that […]

Charles R Mackintosh

Today we were lucky enough to grab tickets to the Charles R Mackintosh exhibition currently on at the Walker Art Gallery. I have been meaning to go for a while so was happy to wander down for an hour or so of wandering round his works. I’ve never known much of his personal life and […]

Symposiums of the Masters

Luckily on the second day of the History of Art symposiums, set aside separately for the Masters students, I was able to set a few hours aside to attend a few presentations. I caught the first section of the papers, based on the unexpected theme of superheroes in the everyday, art and politics. Linda Mary […]

Symposiums of the Sixth Years

Part 2: Location and Interaction The penultimate speaker was Miriam Parry, a Welsh girl who used her personal heritage and experience to explain to us the effects of language and racism within the United Kingdom, alongside public protest through graffiti. The Welsh language has been a diminishing language in present years, as less and less […]

Symposiums of the Sixth Years

Part 1: Hypocrisy and Hope Francesca Pullinger started the day off with a theme both relatable and close to home for all of us there as she critiqued Unilever’s contrasting use of the female body in their adverts. Her key focus began on Dove’s campaign for real beauty which is often seen to inspire and […]

Mike Pratt’s Practises

Today, the weekly visiting artist was Mike Pratt. His work spread across sculpture and painting, and involved his personal interest into literature and the idea of the everyday life. His first few pieces I found a little confusing, but was soon interested in one particular series of artworks. He issued the premise of evolving from […]

Wonders of William Brown Street, Liverpool

Today we headed down to the World Museum on William Brown Street. Here we were given a guided tour of the Africa exhibition by the curator himself, Zachary Kingdon. I’ll admit I was quite distracted and already exhausted from a morning visit to the Williamson Gallery in Birkenhead, where we created our own Della Robbia […]

Meeting Maeve Brennan

This week’s visiting artist was Maeve Brennan, a young woman who has a documentary style of work, involving interviews, anecdotes, and most importantly, reality. She described to us how she mainly uses video but initially finds a tangeable subject, something more permanent to base her ideas off of, as “within an object there is a […]

Hepworth Gallery

I must admit, after trekking through Yorkshire Sculpture Park for hours on end to try and see as much as possible and encountering such impressive works, the Hepworth Gallery for me just didn’t have the same excitement to it. I don’t know much about curating, but it all seemed very mismatched and thrown together; miscellaneous […]

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Today we were taken up to the vast, and very windy fields of Yorkshire Sculpture Park on possibly one of the muddiest, slippiest days. It was a good day out and despite being several times before and a lot of the sculptures being the same due to their vast size and suitability, we ventured further […]