Beginning the Arts Award Silver - Took Part in an Exhibition

Oasis Academy Media City Pupils Take Part in an  Exhibition at Eccles Community Art Gallery from 18 June until 9 July, 2016, Eccles Town Centre, Greater Manchester.

Four of the original pupils who took part in the workshops run by the artists/tutors during the Autumn Term of 2015,  have been working towards an exhibition of their own in a local community gallery.The workshops offered to a dozen pupils were inspired by some of the ordinary objects from the Exhibition "Out of the Ordinary" of Colin Rodney Burrows' paintings,

The remaining pupils have been developing their painting techniques during the Spring and Summer Terms this year, and, as part of the Silver Arts Award, they have worked together to arrange an exhibition for themselves of their current art work.

Olivia Mankondo, may have been inspired by the Egyptian history of beadmaking when she decided to paint a portrait of an Egyptian Princess.  Tim Broughton, not content with merely showing the pupils how to make beads, was determined to explain the history of jewelry and other artifacts, crafted by the Egyptians.  He even brought in a piece of ancient pottery which had been excavated by his daughter in the North West of England.
















Yoelle Lalaye took a bold approach and decided to paint an impressive snake entwining a female figure on a large. canvas.  Her first inspiration was a reference to evil battling good,  however the title was changed to "Trapped Mankind".  Yoelle obviously took note of the painting workshops, whereby attention was given to the importance of interesting backgrounds, and she has spent many hours painting the individual scales on the snake.


                                                                         



Fanni Jori also paid particular attention to her rainbow-coloured background on the painting below,  Her painting was inspired by her feelings of happiness and the fact that she loves butterflies.  They are so beautifully painted, that she was encouraged to name the painting "The Beautyflies".






Destiny Jones is a member of the team which arranged the exhibition, although she has been busy with prior commitments and was unable to undertake much painting.  She is represented in the exhibition by one of her best works from a previous workshop,  This work features an image of a pendant or a brooch, made by working on several different coloured layers of felt, which have been sewn together and a design drawn on the top black layer of felt, and stiched around the outlines.  The felt has been cut away to reveal the image in all its glory!

                                                                   


A Poster to advertise the pupils' participation in the Exhibition was devised by the whole team and displayed around the school.

Out of the Ordinary - An Arts Award Bronze Course in Fantasy Figure Drawing with Astrom Chang

Fantasy Figure Drawing 

Astrom Chang is a graduate of the University of Salford School of Art and Design.  His work at the University was of a more traditional kind, though, from an early age, he was learning the art of fantasy and superhero figures.

Astrom has been a professional illustrator during the past ten years and has collaborated recently with an established author on one of his picture novels, as well as inventing his own superhero.

He  has also delivered drawing workshops to youth groups and school pupils, however, at present he is concentrating on his figure drawing, mainly out and about around the  local city centre.

Website: http://astromchang.deviantart.com/

TV interview with That's Manchester:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry3lNfgUr4A&feature=share

In the Oasis Academy workshops he distributed diagrams from which the pupils could copy,  in order for them to "flex their artistic muscles" before creating their own drawings.  One was of a young woman's face and the other was of a figure.  It was recommended that these two diagrams be copied on a daily basis before attempting any drawing.

A rudimentary lesson in perspective was offered to the pupils, some of whom had heard of it but found it a difficult concept at first.  Astrom showed them the two point perspective and explained why it could be useful in drawing the figure three-quarters on, within some kind of a setting, such as a city-scape.

Astrom then demonstrated the basic skills of drawing a superhero's figure using, in the first instance, geometrical shapes such as oblongs, circles and cylinders to make the skeleton and then gradually building on this to achieve a more resolved figure.

The pupils then invented their own characters, and some even wrote a story.  The importance of these workshops was to stress the necessity for an artist to practice drawing every day, if possible.

Вчителя герой - Stan Lee. Stan Lee придумали відомого коміксів Marvel Супер-герой. Чи знаєте ви, що Супер-герой?

Les élèves de l'Académie Oasis aiment connaître les techniques de dessin et de perspective avec Astrom Chang.

Es ist wunderbar zu sehen, wie leicht und schnell Astrom zeichnen kann, nachdem er so viele Jahren seine Faehigkeiten praktiziert hat.

Según Astrom, ahora hay algunos brillantes ilustradores hembra usando sus habilidades para cambiar nuestra perspectiva sobre la fantasía narraciones en comic book art.

Colin Rodney Burrows' "Out of the Ordinary" Posthumous Exhibition Ends 1st November, 2015

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.

 Within the Langworthy Gallery a space dedicated to the young was constructed and an outline of a house with empty rooms is now filled with drawings of household object which have been coloured in by the visitors.  On another wall is a space for original drawings of objects by the more adventurous child artists.

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.

 

"Out of the Ordinary" a new Exhibition of Colin Rodney Burrows' Paintings at Salford Museum and Art Gallery until 1 November, 2015

Colin Rodney Burrows lived and worked in Salford for most of his career as a lecturer at the University of Salford's Art & Design department. Shortly after joining the University Colin had a solo exhibition here at the gallery, so 40 years later it is fitting to have a posthumous exhibition.

The main theme of this exhibition is Colin's fascination with the ordinary and his attempt to elevate it in importance with his paintings and photography, by focusing on various elements such as increasing the scale, using everyday objects as the prime subject of a painting, incorporating household objects into a family portrait and, on occasion, being playful with the titles.

Shown alongside written memories of Colin, there will be artwork by ex-colleagues, former students and his son, Robert. This exhibition celebrates seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary with plenty of opportunities to have a go for all ages.

To complement the exhibition, Colin's widow and son, who are both artists in their own right, will be in the gallery every Tuesday and Friday throughout August and September doing painting and drawing demonstrations, with a chance to have a go at drawing yourself! View the event via our what's on for further information and dates.

'Out of the Ordinary' will be showing in the Langworthy Gallery at Salford Museum & Art Gallery from Saturday 18 July to Sunday 1 November 2015. 

Contact for further information, images, quotes etc:

Kellie Brown, Marketing Officer, 0161 778 0819, kellie.brown@scll.co.uk(link sends e-mail)
Amy Goodwin, Exhibitions Officer, 0161 778 0883, amy.goodwin@scll.co.uk(link sends e-mail)

Notes for the editor:

Salford Community Leisure provides sport, leisure and cultural services in the city. We manage a wide variety of facilities and activities across the eight neighbourhood areas within the city, including sport and leisure facilities, community centres, libraries, community use high schools, museums and the Music and Performing Arts Service.

Salford Museum and Art Gallery presents an exciting programme of permanent displays and changing contemporary exhibitions together with a range of events and activities guaranteed to inspire.

Ordsall Hall - Salford's Grade 1 listed Tudor manor house - was first recorded in 1177. Since then, it has been home to medieval gentry, Tudor nobility, Catholics loyal to the crown, butchers, farmers, an Earl, priests, scout troops, mill workers, cows and several ghosts!

Today, it is an engaging heritage site open to visitors 5 days a week throughout the year. Surrounded by landscaped grounds, it boasts hands on exhibitions, immersive rooms settings and a small cafe.

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Rita

I had the shock of my life when this painting by my late husband, Colin Rodney Burrows, turned up on Ebay of all places.

The title is "Rita, You Were Never Lovelier", painted circa 1971 in acrylics on canvas. 

I saw it last in about 1985, when Colin mentioned that he had swapped it for some spare parts to a dealer in Manchester, UK,  I was not happy.  After Colin's death in 2002, I made inquiries through a third party about buying the painting back, but the dealer was not interested.

The next time I laid eyes on the painting was in September of this year, (2013) when, I have to admit it, a very pleasant gentleman sent me an e-mail, asking me to verify that the painting was by my late husband.  I had just missed the sale on Ebay by a week, if that! 

If anyone else has misplaced an artwork, it might be as well to keep checking on Ebay.  You never know what might turn up there,