Exhibitions

Ok, I would say I’m quite reliant on deciding if my time with a department is going to be good or not, by the first impression I get by meeting the team.
So I can’t tell you what a delight it was meeting the exhibitions team over in the Brighton Museum. I was greeted with lots of lovely cakes and biscuits and was promised more to come, oh yeah and the work plan set for me was pretty good too.
Firstly I got to help bring down the exhibition over in Hove called Touching Art, Touching You, Which is the last tour exhibiting in Hove Museum I believe.
That was good fun. Later I help pack up the From Sickert to Gertler: Modern British Art from Boxted House exhibition which was interesting because it was so different to the one I did in Hove.
An example of this is the no touching rule. The art work in Sickert to Gertler gallery in Brighton you had to use gloves for whenever you would move a piece of art or had to give it a condition check. But in hove because Touching Art, Touching You exhibition was all about touching and feeling the art, there were no need for gloves.
Now this is when things started to get interesting. I’ve seen how bring down an exhibition, now I would get to see one put up.

Once all three of the temporary galleries over in Brighton Museum were emptied of Sickert to Gertler , along came the new exhibition Strange and Familia part of the bpb (Brighton Photo Biennial).

Basically this exhibition is about how 3 photographers (one who is from the USA and another from Japan) see Brighton. The American photographer collaborated with his 8 year old daughter that gives yet another interesting twist and angle. HP lent a special printer to print out all the photographs and in what is apparently a world’s first there are no frames on any of the pictures in the exhibition. We used magnets to hold up the pictures.

Here’s a link if you would like to know more about the exhibition http://www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/WhatsOn/Pages/BMAGphotobiennial2octto14nov10.aspx.

Zak

I worked with the Fundraising team for three months over the summer. For most of that time we were working together on producing and delivering a door drop for the Royal Pavilion and Museums Foundation. This was done to raise awareness of the charity to residents of Brighton and Hove and has proved to have been a very successful way of increasing interest.
Other jobs that I worked on include developing the social networking sites that I mentioned before, which are both growing steadily, helping Li-an with processing new members applications and sending out their membership packs. For the most recent mail out to the members of the Foundation, I compiled a competition crossword for the newsletter!

I have been working with the Learning team for a month now and I’m very busy. I’ve been working closely with the organisers of the Christmas events and am taking on part of the organisation for the project, as well as looking into developing the African Masks school session, helping at early years sessions, preparing for Diwali and White Night events and generally integrating myself into the department.

Zak and I have been working on the technical certificate part of our apprenticeship coursework. This is a really interesting piece of work and a chance for us to do a bit more research into the sector that we work in. We have to write a couple of presentations to show our knowledge of the creative and cultural sector and how creative ideas are developed and put into place. I’ve been doing research into museums of natural history around the country and how they tailor themselves to appeal to children. I’m comparing what I find to what the Booth Museum offers. It’s very interesting to see what services other museums offer as a whole and to what extent they provide to younger audiences.

Cassie