The exhibition at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, in Greater Manchester, UK, of Colin Rodney Burrows' Paintings of Ordinary Objects, together with his Family Portraits, Cartoons and Ephemera comes to an end this Sunday, 1st November, 2015.
This follows a summer of activities based on the theme of Ordinary Objects, including a course of six family workshops held in Salford Museum's School Room during the Creative Sundays slot. Children of all ages and their parents created objects made from pipe cleaners, illustrated giant postcards and made small postcards to take home, modeled seaside objects in air-hardening clay, drew funny spaceships based on ordinary objects decorated cut-out shoe cards and, finally, painted self-portraits on canvas.
The widow and son of the artist, Colin Burrows, were present in the Exhibition space twice a week for eight weeks, drawing and painting objects which had been discovered by the Exhibitions Officer and her team. Paintings by Robert James Burrows are now on show in the Langworthy Gallery alongside his father's work,as are paintings and sculpture by Jo Carlon, Lorna Fellas, Gerard Highland, Fiona Moate and Sean Caherty.
Continuing on from the theme of Ordinary Objects is a course which is running at the moment for twelve pupils from Oasis Academy, MediaCity UK, This is an Arts Award Bronze course which is funded by the Arts Council England using National Lottery monies.
The schoolchildren are aged between 13 and 15 and are taking part in workshops using wire, paint, fabric, pen and ink/digital media, together with a variety of other 3D materials. Work by Oasis Academy pupils is on display in the Langworthy Gallery and also in Eccles Community Art Gallery at present. As more art work by the pupils is produced further displays will be on view at Oasis AcademyMediaCity UK, Eccles Community Art Gallery and the West One Foyer in Eccles.
