The Imperial War Museum & Lowry art gallery.

Great day, great inspiration and great fun....just great!

First of all we looked to the past for inspiration.

Saw some tanks....which pleased Alex

Of course Chris got in on the photo action!

And then we looked towards art of the future, combining the latest scientific techniques to create interactive art pieces.

We visited a working artists studio...

We had a fun filled, enriching day.

Watch our video......

https://quik.gopro.com/v/pDW2CtyRAK/

Foundation day out!

Must see exhibition at The Lowry art gallery.

#asfc art science

A fantastic exhibition is currently at The Lowry combining art and science.

Project Nimbus is a collaboration between artists, scientists & makers.

Dave Lynch takes art and science to create some exquisite individual pieces. 

Primarily a neuroscientist he takes inspiration from how the brain works. 

Very interested in movement he has taken inspiration from great artists of the past such as Muybridge, who also had a scientific approach to his work.

We especially enjoyed The frozen music collection, using viewers brainwaves to create the piece itself.

The exhibition also explores digital art as a medium. Capturing digital moving image to record the changes in light waves using glass as a magnifier.

And of course we visited The Lowry exhibition highlighting his life and work. 

Although we really did get inspiration from Dave Lynch.

Here are a few photographs of what our brain waves looked like.

The exhibition is at The Lowry all month and Dave Lynch is working in the exhibition space if you have any questions. We really found out what inspired him and his extraordinary work. 

Unit 2 Mini Sculptures.

After producing an amazing group sculpture this week, you should be ready for an individual challenge!
Next week we are working individually to produce something much smaller...................
For those of you who wanted to get ahead with next weeks research on Joseph Cornell, here is next weeks brief for your 2 week project.

Unit 2 Mini structures.



This links well with the curiosities of the past, linking to Object trouve...what can you use to create excitement in your individual pieces? Start collect small objects to display alongside making some of your own!

Unit 1 brief.

Unit 1 Brief- Megastructures

Follow the Mega structures link above for an extra copy of your brief.




and if you want to double check you have everything for assessment next week, see the following checklist.
Unit 1 checklist.

What a busy start to the year!

Welcome 2016-17 Foundation course, new students.

This week sees the start of Mega structures brief. Great ideas, inspiring designs and development into a final piece showing consumerism in today's society and linking with arte pouvre.

To see the students amazing progress, check out the video on the link below.

https://quik.gopro.com/v/pos8AIr20g/

And for a sneaky peep at some of the photographs of the progress check these out before the unveiling of the final piece next week.

And after all that excitement during the week, all students have started some work experience this weekend at the Buy Art Fair Manchester.

Where work is being displayed by a member of our teaching staff James Chadderton.

Good luck guys, have fun, work hard and connect with other artists.

I'm looking forward to hearing all about it next week.