'All Over the Place' opening night

Come one come all to our next exhibition opening! 'All Over the Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space' opens tomorrow evening from 6-8pm at SAB Gallery. Among the 17 artists involved, 4 are lecturers in the School of Design. All are inspired by the relationship between space/place and drawing - with varied resulting images.







Hope to see you tomorrow, and if not, the show is on until 23 October 2010.





Image: Iguazu Falls, by Emma Stibbon, 2009, chalk on blackboard, (c) The Artist







Also open in the Education Room this summer (14 June- 27 August) is 'Representing the Romany' - materials from Special Collections Romany Collection. Includes a painting on a butterfly wing, among other treasures.







Have a great summer!

Image: Detail from Die Rotwelsch Grammatic, Augsberg, 1520, Leeds University Library Special Collections

Tate Trumps (the noun, not the verb)

Another interesting app, perhaps more daft than edifying!

Tate Trumps from Hide and Seek on Vimeo.

'Write Me a Picture' creative writing workshops

The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery invites you all to attend a series of creative writing/art workshops, 'Write Me a Picture'. Run by local poets Suzannah Evans, David Tait and Rosie Blagg, the 3 workshops (all different) investigate the relationship between visual art and verbal creativity. Participants will draw inspiration from the artworks on display to create prose and poetry responses.

This cross-displinary workshop should be of great interest to those of you who are interested in Gallery education and in creative ways of interpreting art. The first workshop runs this Sat, 5 June, 1.30-4pm, and subsequent sessions are 26 June and 17 July.

The workshops are £5/£4 concession rate. Book your place with Suzannah Evans directly by email: evans.suzie@googlemail.com.

MA Symposium 2010

Some of the MA Museum Studies Postgrads, relaxing in the University
Bar after the three -day Symposium...they bought me a drink
(well Natasha did anyway).....Cheers to you all!

Hello All,

the MA students delivered their dissertation topics at the MA Symposium at the University of Leeds this week. This three-day programme of papers is an annual event in the School and allows the postgraduates from all programmes (Art History, Cultural Studies, Fine Art Practice, and Museum Studies) to share perspectives - the much vaunted 'interdisciplinarity' that Leeds is famous for!
The Museum Studies MAs presented excellent papers (as usual)...and we very much look forward to reading their final dissertations.....here's a flavour of the very varied themes and approaches...WELL DONE ALL OF YOU!

Mark

'Interpreting Heritage' Session Chair, Professor Catherine Karkov
Louise Flower - The History of Theobald's Palace

'Museums and Politics: Global Perspectives Session Chair, Professor Catherine Karkov
Natasha Roberts - Crossing Cultures, Crossing Time
Katherine Ernest - Presenting History in National Military Museums
Sotiria Pizania - Politics and the Museum: the new Acropolis Museum
Rebecca Price - Promoting Culture in Qatar: the political role of the museum
Helen Fairhurst - Preserving National Identity: the Iraq War and the Conservation of Cultural Property

'Considering Curation' Session Chair, Professor Griselda Pollock
Katherine Vaughan - An examination of the documentation of the Curator's work using the Mercer Art Gallery as a case study
Elizabeth Kilburn - The 1938 Loan Exhibition of Pictures and Furniture at Temple Newsam House
Emma Fikkert - Anubis within the Egyptian Galleries at the British Museum
Christine Cant - Curating the Outsider: Surrealist Exhibitionism Then and Now
Hattie Heng Shing Lam - From Democratisation of Culture to Museumification of Objects in the form of Cultural Souvenirs

'Consuming Spaces' Session Chair, Professor Griselda Pollock
Nell Crook - Restaurants in the Contemporary Art Gallery: Spaces of inclusion or elitism?

'Participant Observation' Session Chair, Professor Vanalyne Green
Elizabeth Hardwick - Viewing versus Experience: an exploration of physical and visual art encounters
Ashley Hamilton - Neo-Baroque Aesthetic: Claudio Bravo and the Contemporary Art Market

'Musuems & Politics' Session Chair, Professor David Hill
Jemma Conway - 'Experience Barnsley': reflecting the notion of the community as collector
Elaine Narrie - The Lowry: what role does Culture play in Urban Regeneration?
Melanie Marsh - The National Trust and saving Tyntesfield. Why?

More next year!
mark

Augmented Reality

The Museum of London have recently brought our their own iPhone app called Street Museum that uses geo-tagging and augmented reality to overlay images from their archive in real time and space. Seems like it could have interesting implications for diffusing museum collections and content, and it's free!

Science & Heritage Talks

Hello All,

you are warmly invited to our 'Science & Heritage' talk at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds on WEDNESDAY 26th May at 6.00pm - wine and nibbles afterwards!

'Metrology as an Investigative Tool'

Liam Blundt

School of Computing and Engineering

University of Huddersfield

ALL WELCOME

These talks are supported by a Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) and the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, and the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage at the University of Leeds.

Pavilion

Hello everyone!

Pavilion will be presenting a series of screenings and events with artist Elizabeth Price in June (15-19) and I thought her work might be of interest to some of you. Elizabeth is an artist who uses "digital video and reprographic media, to reformulate and re-inscribes collections and archives using artefacts drawn from the debris of modernism, popular culture, consumerism and science-fiction." She is currently creating an ongoing series of work called The New Ruined Institute in which each video 'episode' unfolds a different room within a fictional museum. We will be screening the first two parts of the work - WELCOME (the Atrium) and USER GROUP DISCO (the Hall of Sculptures) at Pavilion during the week. We are also running two events with Elizabeth. There's more info about screening times and the events on our newsletter here: http://www.pavilion.org.uk/public/public_html/Newsletters/Elizabeth_Price.htm and there's also an interesting Art Monthly interview with Elizabeth and Paul O'Neill here http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6735/is_326/ai_n31944778/ that gives some more insight into her practice.

If you are interested in the work and would like to come down as a group (or as individuals!) just let me know (gill@pavilion.org.uk) (It's a small space so we're asking people to book) The two videos last 19 minutes in total!

Best Wishes

Gill - Programme Producer (Interaction), Pavilion