Wunderkammer - Charlotte Walters

(PhD Studentship available at AUB http://www.modip.ac.uk/resources/PhD-Studentship)

This piece by Charlotte Walters is part of the BA Hons Fine Art project Wunderkammer

Time, Fabric, thread

Charlotte says: The 'museum' conveys the passing of time by exhibiting artefacts gathered over many years and communicating our personal, social and cultural histories. Traditionally samplers have marked the passing of time, they were used to celebrate special occasions, births, christenings and marriages.

As a contemporary revision of this I have created a series of embroideries using modern fonts based on comments from family and friends on what they believed ‘Time’ to be.
 

Time, Fabric, thread

Louise Dennis (Assistant Curator)

Wunderkammer - Anya Kay

(PhD Studentship available at AUB http://www.modip.ac.uk/resources/PhD-Studentship)

This piece by Anya Kay is part of the BA Hons Fine Art project Wunderkammer

Blank canvas, Chicken Wire, Modroc, Plastilina.

Anya says: I have been looking at the use if models in museums for display, interaction and demonstration.  I have used model making techniques to comment on 'the museum' as an institution representing our knowledge, history, culture, beliefs, and traditions. As a child grows, invisible layers burden it's identity. This work represents a beginning with no preconceptions and a future with infinite possibilities. 

Blank canvas, Chicken Wire, Modroc, Plastilina.

 
Louise Dennis (Assistant Curator)

Wunderkammer

(PhD Studentship available at AUB http://www.modip.ac.uk/resources/PhD-Studentship)

Over the last term BA (Hons) Fine Art level 4 students were given the opportunity to make work in response to MoDiP and wider notions of the Museum. They were encouraged to treat MoDiP as a Wunderkammer, a source of inspiration.

This is the third year that students have undertaken this project and the responses have produced the usual diversity of approach, but all can be seen as having been influenced by museology.

Issues of hierarchy of display, authenticity, methods of recording, classification have all had an influence on current art practice and can be seen as having influenced each of the works in this exhibition.

These pieces are currently on display in the cases on the ground floor of the library and over the next few days we will be featuring the individual artworks on this blog.  In the meantime the whole exhibition can be viewed on our website:

 

www.modip.ac.uk/resources/teaching/wunderkammer

 

Louise Dennis (Assistant Curator)

BXL photographic archive #0008

(PhD Studentship available at AUB http://www.modip.ac.uk/resources/PhD-Studentship)

In 2010, MoDiP was donated a large archive of images relating to a single company. Bakelite Xylonite Ltd, also known as British Xylonite Ltd or BXL, was possibly one of the first British firms to successfully manufacture a plastics material in commercial quantities. The company was established in 1875 and after a long history went into liquidation in the late 2000s. The images we have in the collection are concentrated around the 1960s through to the 1980s and show us glimpses of the manufacturing process, products and the company’s employees during this time. We plan to share an image each week to give a flavour of the archive. If you want to see more you can view the whole collection on our website.

This week’s image shows aeroplane ejector seats.




To get a better view of the image and find out more have a look at it on our website
http://www.modip.ac.uk/artefact/bxl--0209

We are still working on the documentation of the archive, some of the images we know more about than others. It would be fantastic if we could fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge, if you know anything about the company or specific images it would be good to hear from you.

Louise Dennis (Assistant Curator)

What could this be?

(PhD Studentship available at AUB http://www.modip.ac.uk/resources/PhD-Studentship)

MoDiP has the kind of collection that you may think you are very familiar with. We have objects which we all use every day, and some pieces which are more unusual.


By looking at this distorted image are you able to guess what the object is? What do you think it could be used for?

 

 

Post your answer in the comments below or find out more about the object by looking at the MoDiP catalogue.


Louise Dennis (Assistant Curator)

Closed Bank Holiday

MoDiP will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday 6th May 2013. We will reopen on Tuesday 7th May 2013.

For further details of our opening hours please see our website: www.modip.ac.uk

Do you know what this is?

(PhD Studentship available at AUB http://www.modip.ac.uk/resources/PhD-Studentship)

MoDiP has the kind of collection that you may think you are very familiar with. We have objects which we all use every day, and some pieces which are more unusual.


By looking at this distorted image are you able to guess what the object is? What do you think it could be used for?

 

Post your answer in the comments below or find out more about the object by looking at the MoDiP catalogue.


Louise Dennis (Assistant Curator)