Open day - Experimental Drawing

As part of the open day, students where working on different activities throughout the different rooms and facilities of Outline. Visitors and potential students were encouraged to take part and join in with the activity.

The following pictures are from a specific activity within one of the rooms, where students filled the floor space of the room with large scale charcoal drawings of personal and found objects and memorabilia, to create a maze and seemingly random arrangement of objects.

Many thanks to all students and staff that took part in the activities, which made the event such a success.

Prague: Continued

We were taken along by several Czech students who attend the fashion college campus to see the castle.

We photographed much of the architechture in Prague which happened to be the basis of the work we were set in the Graphics Department where we used the inspiration from the surrounding architechture in the different work we were doing, such as linoprint and t-shirt making.

We also went to see an exhibition being held at Artbanka Museum Of Young Art which exposed us to the modern, contempory and sometimes controversial art scene situated withing Prague which was a change and diverted us away from the older, more traditional aspect of art within Prague.

Prague - So Far...

Images taken from one of our day trips to a gallery in Prague: Vytvarneho Umeni, which exhibited a wide range of both modern and traditional Czech art.
Here, a small snapshot of the nights out we have been on with several of the Czech students we have met as part of the exchange programme. It was much easier and much more relaxed to socialze and get to know them outside of the college timetable.
It's been really nice how much of an effort some of them have made in making us feel welcome and to include us in their culture.

Day Three: First Tour of Prague

Tour through the city, guided by Czech students, who are also on the exchange programme.


For our first gallery visit we were taken to an exhibition which featured the works of David Lachapelle.
At the moment I am unaware of the name of the gallery and will have to come back to you on that.

We were then taken to a restaurant in which we were served traditional Czech cuisine.

Outline Seminar with Colin Smith & Ian Jones

The Outline Seminar was held in the department's workshop area.


Colin Smith taking questions from the audience.

Ian Jones (left) and Ian Andrews (right).

After the presentation the artists stayed to answer questions regarding their work. Here Ian Jones discusses his work with a student.

Colin Smith (left) and Dagmara Milosz (right) in front of Dagmara's oil painting which has been inspired by the work of Colin Smith.

Many thanks to Ian Jones and Colin Smith who took the time to make the Outline Seminar such an interesting and memorable evening. Many thanks also to all students and members of staff who helped to make the event a success.

Outline wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a good start into the year 2012!

FEED Seminar at Outline - Ian Jones & Colin Smith

On Thursday 15th December between 6.30pm & 8.30pm Colin Smith & Ian Jones will give a talk at Outline, Sutton Coldfield Campus. The event is open to anybody interested. Please click the image above for further details.

Colin Smith and Ian Jones are British Artists who have their work in the permanent collections of many museums and important private collections around the world including; the Saatchi Gallery,Tate Modern, British Airways, Guiness, EMI, Scottish Equitable, the Nat West Group and The Duke and Duchess of Westminsters’ private collection. Colin Smith is an art critic and has been a Harkness fellow to Yale University. Ian Jones is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and has been a lecturer in painting at Kent Institute of Art and Design and Brighton University.

Tickets for the seminar are £4 for BMETC students and £5 for everybody else. Tickets for the event can be booked by calling 0121 355 7671 ext. 5113 or ext. 5110 or by sending an e-mail to: ian.andrews@bmetc.ac.uk or yvonne.vickers@bmetc.ac.uk

Yellow week at Outline - Exhibition of work

Sculptures made from card and paper inspired by the theme of evolution.

Throughout Yellow Week students worked on projects together with students from different departments within the college, all work was showcased at the end of the week in a final exhibition and performance event.

Images taken during the performance of the shadow theater.

Set design inspired by famous films, in this case Harry Potter.

Hand-printed and saw cotton bags inspired by a trip to Birmingham city centre.

Sculpture billed from household objects based on a jaguar.

Close up shot of a dress made from paper.

Showcasing a week of truly inspirational and fantastic work!