Final Year Exhibition - Private View

Last week Outline opened it's doors to welcome families, friends and visitors to the private view and launch event of the final year shows of all art and design courses run at Outline*. On Thursday night visitors poured into the department to see the work that had been produced as part of the students' Final Major Projects and to celebrate the excellent achievement of our students. 

The night was a great success and the reaction by the great number of visitors that came was overwhelmingly positive. A massive thank you to all students and staff that worked so hard over the past weeks to help make the exhibition such a successful event.

 *all courses except: HND in Fine Art, which is currently being shown at Minerva Works in Digbeth

WE ARE FEED - June 2012 - Summer Shows

This year’s OUTLINE Art and Design Exhibition showcases students’ best work from all levels of courses at the Sutton Coldfield Campus of Birmingham Metropolitan College. Work exhibited is from Level 1, 2 and 3 and the pre-degree Foundation Course.  Students on these multi-disciplinary courses work across a broad range of art and design subjects with their ideas and outcomes focussed in one specialist area at the culmination of their course.

When: 16th - 28th June 2012

Where: OUTLINE, Sutton Coldfield Campus, Birmingham Metropolitan College

Private View: Thursday 21st June, 6.30 - 9.00pm

Field trip alongside canal with Illustration students

After the group of illustration students had hand-made their own drawing books and decided on their own individual ways of recording their surroundings using a range of illustration process, the students came on a day trip to walk from Spaghetti Junction to the new library at Centenary Square in Birmingham. While walking alongside Birmingham and Fazeley Canal the students did not only stop at various points of their journey to record their urban surroundings, but they also had the opportunity to find out more about the vital role that the canal system had played in Birmingham's industrial past. Each student's outcome is one of the many stories that will be told over the course of the next year as part of Outline's initiative called City of 1000 stories.

The group of illustration students at the start of the day's journey.

 Students recording their urban surroundings in their hand-made books.

 Individual pages taken from the final books.

Two examples of final books, which record in a visual way the journey the students made from Sutton Campus to the new library at Centenary Square.

Our final destination for the day was the new library, which is currently being build at Centenary Square.

BTEC Level 1 and 2 Art and Design Bake Sale

BTEC Level 1 and 2 Art and Design students selling cakes and goodies home made by staff and students. A fantastic £115 was raised towards the Level 1 and 2 Art and Design shows.

Bake Sale

Level 2 Diploma in Art and Design FMP sneek preview

More Level 2 Diploma in Art and Design Final Major Project work and other projects will be exhibited during the Outline Exhibition opening on Saturday 16th June

Workshop with Robert Perry at Outline

A couple of days after the seminar Robert Perry RBSA came into college to run a day-long workshop with a selected group of art and design students from courses across the art and design department. After the Outline seminar with Robert it became apparent that students wanted to find out more about the great variety of processes and techniques Robert uses in his work. Therefore the workshop with Robert was highly anticipated by our students, as it gave the students the chance to learn from Robert's great wealth of experience as a fine artist and historian.

Robert Perry RBSA during his demonstration of different drawing processes.

After Robert presented his work that he had done at several World War sites across Europe during his Outline seminar, the students used images, newspaper clippings, battle maps and war poetry as inspiration for their own artwork.

Robert Perry RBSA and the group of students during their final critique at the end of the day. 

Many thanks to Robert Perry RBSA, who gave up his time to come in and share his extensive knowledge as a travelling artist with the students. Further images of the student's work can be seen in the next post.