A Day at the Gallery for Year 5
March 12, 2010
Face to Face
Light Show
Mrs Culek planned an action-packed day at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on the 4th March for Year 5 children. The workshop was run by artist Lucy Dagger who guided them trough the stages of making a press print , how to incise the plate and ink it up with rollers before the really exciting bit of making the final print! The children examined the work of Arts and Crafts artist William Morris and William de Morgan who designed the most beautiful tiles.
A visit to the Bridget Riley flashback exhibition proved very popular and an effective way of making you feel dizzy and sick as the op art pictures painted in the 60’s played tricks on the eyes and brain. Cheaper than a trip to Alton Towers but not such a good idea just after lunch!!
The final section of the visit was a series of videos about how art is made, showing the processes of printmaking, painting, ceramics, drawing, jewellery and sculpture. This latter category made Mrs Culek very excited as the artist demonstrating in the video was Rob Perry, her old tutor!