Big Draw North West Launch 2004
Other launch events: South West,
South East, London,
East, East Midlands,
West Midlands, Yorkshire,
North East, Scotland,
Wales, N. Ireland
Wear your Art on your Sleeve
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Museum,
Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester, Whitworth
Art Gallery
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Manchester Art Gallery
3 October 2004
A sensational day: drawing a piece from the collection onto a T-shirt whilst
taking the drawing trail, meeting artists or drawing with rope under the slope!
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Photos of Gallery Cat with
illustrator Tony Ross, Big Draw event on 16 & 17 October.
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Manchester Museum
10 October 2004
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Linked to the BBC's new landmark programme The British Isles: A Natural
History, visitors created their own weird and wonderful plant life
design, inspired by Edward Lear's Nonsense Botany. The t-shirts were
hung up to dry around the Museum, creating a unique and visually stunning
display. The event was attended by over 400 people and everybody had a
thoroughly enjoyable day. Artists Elaine Bennett and Paul Pickford helped
visitors in the galleries with their designs, which they transferred on to
t-shirts using fabric paints and pens.
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The Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester
9 October 2004
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Visitors celebrated Manchester's fame as King Cotton on this fun-packed day of
events. Three artists led workshops, each one promising something very
different. The Textile Gallery workshop converted drawings from visitors'
sketchbooks into t-shirt designs. The Air & Place workshop made drawings
inspired by aeroplanes and used these as a basis for constructing sculptural
objects. Near the Xperiment Gallery, visitors studied the miscroscopic world of
fabrics and bugs. They used overhead projections and computer microscopes to
assist in the creation of a huge collaborative painting.
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The Whitworth Art Gallery
2 October 2004
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Visitors worked with an artist to create huge fabric floor drawings and took
home a digital photo of the results. Nicholas Allan, a leading children's book
illustrator with Random House, led a popular workshop. Visitors made drawings
inspired by the patterns on display in the textile gallery and then stencilled
them onto t-shirts to 'hang out to dry' in the grounds.
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