Last Monday we went to the Manchester art gallery to visit some new exhibitions that we hadn’t seen, to help us translate our 2D-3d work. The first exhibition we saw was a Manchester born sculptor Halima Cassell, whose work consisted of multiple different types of clay, from all over the world, and some beautiful ceramics. I think because I’ve worked 3D before I could really appreciate how hard something so seemingly beautiful and smooth as making a clay bowl actually is. How nervous she must have been placing each piece in the kiln, that she’d worked hours on- to only hope it wouldn’t be ruined. I often find the way galleries word things, and Manchester art gallery in particular, very difficult to depict without having to read multiple times and this exhibition was no different. So I think if I had fully understood the information then I could have appreciated it more, so now after researching her will probably go back and really enjoy it.
Halima Cassells ceramics 
We then went to the Leonardo Di-Vinci exhibition which I had already been to, and to be honest, I found the exhibition very disengaging and forgettable. The very few drawings, in a crowded room with limited light did not compel me to stay or revisit. However, I did appreciate how accurate and precise his drawings of the human form were, and how revolutionary for his time he was and a few of my friends, did love the exhibition, so is just personal prefernce really.
Then finally, we went to the Martin Parr exhibition, which I really liked. I LOVVVVVE how the pictures in the exhibition were based in Manchester because not only did I recognise some of the places, but the people around me who were older than me were getting exited about places that they remember looking like that which was nice.
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