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| At British Museum |
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| Piarve and Tina exploring the Africa Galleries |
Tuesday 16 April 2013
YAG Visit to British Museum, Tuesday 09 April 2013
The Youth Advisors went on a trip to British Museum to explore their Africa Galleries and learn more about contemporary African textiles.
YAG Workshop with Jean Campbell, Thursday 04 April 2013
Today the Youth Advisors did a workshop with Jean Campbell, learning about cultural continuity and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The day started with a group game to share our name origin with each other. we learnt that enslaved people would often have their names changed and these cultural indicators, carefully chosen by our families, were lost
We then started to note anything we know about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, one piece of information on each card
YAG Workshop, Tuesday 02 April 2013
Today the Youth Advisors met with Amy Miller, Curator of Decorative Arts & Material Culture, Research & Curatorial at Royal Museums Greenwich, and Louise Simkiss, Adult Learning Manager. Joan and Piarve tell us about what they got up to...
Amy and Louise talked to us about the Alice Kettle Garden of England exhibition inspired by the flamboyant Tudor and Stuart eras and then we moved on to the National Maritime Museum to see the extraordinary Yinka Shonibare's 'Nelson's Ship in a Bottle' which is inspired by Nelson's flagship Victory and Batik textiles ad well as European history and African culture. I found exploring different materials and different techniques to create materials interesting. Understanding how different cultures wore fabrics and interpreted colours was interesting. We also got an introduction to the Silver Arts Award.
Reviews of Alice Kettle's The Garden of England (in the Queen's House until 18 August 2013)
Mercedes Thompson
Alice Kettle’s ‘The Garden of England’ is an exhibition in The Queen’s House, taking inspiration from the historical figures around Greenwich. The first part of the exhibition I went to see was the ‘Flower Helix’ on the Tulip Staircase. I learnt that the artist was not Kettle alone, but also her students, who had helped to create the beautiful flowers for this wonderful piece. I also visited ‘The Flower Bed’, an installation made of synthetic fabrics with the exception of wool, due to the fabric-eating insects beneath the floorboards. I really liked this piece because the colours were rather vibrant; I also thought that Kettle’s idea of incorporating patterns from the clothing of royal figures, such as Elizabeth I, was quite unique. The last piece I saw was a stitch of ‘Queen Henrietta Maria’, which I found amazing as it had a lot of texture and a broad range of colours. The exhibition was excellent, and I appreciated that Kettle and her students had made a variety of different flowers for the visitor to take away as a souvenir.
My review will be shared through the blog, and I thoroughly enjoyed sharing my experience of this exhibition through writing this review. The evidence I have for my attendance at this event will be in the form of photos.
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| Meeting in the Queen's House with Amy Miller |
Reviews of Alice Kettle's The Garden of England (in the Queen's House until 18 August 2013)
Mercedes Thompson
Alice Kettle’s ‘The Garden of England’ is an exhibition in The Queen’s House, taking inspiration from the historical figures around Greenwich. The first part of the exhibition I went to see was the ‘Flower Helix’ on the Tulip Staircase. I learnt that the artist was not Kettle alone, but also her students, who had helped to create the beautiful flowers for this wonderful piece. I also visited ‘The Flower Bed’, an installation made of synthetic fabrics with the exception of wool, due to the fabric-eating insects beneath the floorboards. I really liked this piece because the colours were rather vibrant; I also thought that Kettle’s idea of incorporating patterns from the clothing of royal figures, such as Elizabeth I, was quite unique. The last piece I saw was a stitch of ‘Queen Henrietta Maria’, which I found amazing as it had a lot of texture and a broad range of colours. The exhibition was excellent, and I appreciated that Kettle and her students had made a variety of different flowers for the visitor to take away as a souvenir.
My review will be shared through the blog, and I thoroughly enjoyed sharing my experience of this exhibition through writing this review. The evidence I have for my attendance at this event will be in the form of photos.
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