In this project on show in Out of the Crate, Manchester Art Gallery has brought together three contemporary artists to work with students and teachers from Burnage Academy and sculptures from the gallery’s Rutherston Loan Collection to explore ways of seeing.
Nehal Aamir, Nicola Dale and Sam Owen Hull drew on their own art practice to create a series of workshops to help a group of Year 9 students develop their visual literacy skills. This involved encouraging the students to think about colour, tone, line, shape, form – all formal elements of art.
The blackboard highlight some of the process and students work.
Listen to the artists sharing their thoughts on looking about the following artworks: Little Monster by Peter Clough, Standing Woman by Henry Moore and 8-65 Aluminium by Maurice Jadot.
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The Rutherston Loan Collection: In 1925 Charles Rutherston (1866-1927) donated paintings, drawings and sculptures to the gallery on the condition that these artworks would be loaned to galleries and schools to enrich the lives and contribute to the education of ordinary people. For almost 100 years this collection was built upon through a variety of gifts, bequests, transfers and purchases and shared across Greater Manchester and the North of England through a series of lending schemes.
