Feedback Week - Gathering Visual Research

Throughout Feedback week we had the opportunity to work independently and gather a body of visual research to kick start our new unit ‘Data, Collections and Lists’. We were advised to visit various places around Manchester that would provide us with excited and diverse ideas such as; The Manchester Museum, The Holden Gallery and The Visual Resources Centre. As I planned my week, I wanted to ensure my time throughout was well organised and well used, providing time to gather research and then respond to my findings through sketchbook development and reflective drawings.

The highest source of Inspiration for me came from The Manchester Museum. Being new to the city, this was my first ever visit and I was pleasantly surprised by the amazing collections and artifacts the museum had to offer.  As I wandered around I became attracted to the large variety of human and animal skeltons that where on show, with a main focus being on the organic lines and curves that where created by the spinal structures and the way the skeltons where postioned to reflect movement.  I reflected on this by conducting onsite drawings and taking many pictures for later refrence, focusing on how I could manipulate the skeletal curve to create new shapes and patterns.  As well as this other areas that grabbed my attention where the large collection of rocks, crystals and minerals, an area I have always found insightful and inspirational and also an unexpected interested in fragments, shards of  pottery ranging from roman, greek and eqyptian periods.