Extended Diploma in Art & Design. Mid Year show - Works Gallery - 2014

Staff and students on the first day of set up at "The Works" Gallery in Birmingham.

Not that you can see from my photos of the private view, we actually had a very good turn out and samosa were a great addition. I can safely say that samosa have become some what of an pre-requisite for our private views and they were well recieved in a some what cold Gallery space in deep Febuary.

The pupose of the mid year show is to expose students to the practice of exhibiting their work within a profesional gallery space. Students also benefit from displaying their work prior to their Final Major Project. It gives them insigts into how they could develop their ideas and concepts and ultimately, display their work to its best potential.

CIC live brief

OUTLINE welcomed the Computing Department of Birmingham Metropolitan College to view students work for the re-branding of their department as CIC -Computer Innovation Centre- they were impressed with the results and chose 6 designs for development and use in the interior of their computer suites, entrance, and stairwell. Designs for the new logo for external advertising and marketing were also chosen. A great success and opportunity for our hard working students with some strong ideas and innovative designs!

The use of "live" briefs is a crucial part of the work at OUTLINE giving students experience of presenting ideas to external clients in formal presentations.

 

2nd Year Extended Diploma Art and Design Mid Year Show

The Works Gallery

Jubilee Centre

130 Pershore Street

Birmingham

B5 4RW

Please join us on Thursday 6th February 

for the private view between 5pm-7pm

Experimental Drawing Workshop

Programme manager Ian Andrews delivered the regular experimental drawing workshop "Project in a night." This year it attracted a record number of participants with over 30 students volunteering for a two-hour evening session. As in previous workshops the emphasis was on the development of ideas under extreme time pressure.

OUTLINE encourages all students to participate and a wide range of different levels attended from first year subsidiary diploma, AS/A2 art to HND Fine art. These workshops create a space/arena in which students can operate outside the criteria of normal projects, where anything can happen and  experimental discoveries can be made.

OUTLINE presentation at the V&A in London.

In November OUTLINE took part in a series of presentations at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the launch of a publication called "15 methods 20 questions." The book was a series of interviews with people who are developing  innovative curriculum delivery models and Outline were invited to participate because of our  Experimental Drawing workshops and Community Drawing projects. 

Programme manager Ian Andrews gave a  presentation on the development of the experimental drawing workshops, their rationale and delivery methods and the City of 1000 Stories initiative run by the Department to engage community groups in the visual arts.

The presentation was an abridged version of the interview conducted with the Q-Art research team which forms part of the publication.

Theatre Design Workshop with Saranjit Birdi.

OUTLINE students on the Theatre Arts Course and BMAPA  drama students worked together with visiting artist and theatre designer Saranjit Birdi following his FEED night talk outlining his varied career in architecture, computer animation, community arts and recent performance pieces creating a fusion between drawing and dance.

The students worked in groups to develop ideas for the collaborative live project, BMAPA’s production of “The Little Match Girl” considering points raised in Saranjit’s  talk and solutions to staging problems, for example how to light a match without using a real flame!

“FEED” Evening with visiting artist Saranjit Birdi.

OUTLINE welcomed  former student Saranjit Birdi to the first FEED evening of 2013/2014. Saranjit spoke about his varied practice as an Architect, Choreographer, Theatre Designer and his work on Public Art Commissions.  His fusion of drawing and dance was of particular interest to the OUTLINE initiative.

At the end of his talk he demonstrated his drawing abilities with different parts of his anatomy! Making a portrait of Programme Manager Ian Andrews in 10 minutes using his feet!

Then it was “socks off” for those  willing to have a go themselves!