Recently work

Well these are a lot of dolls I made them for this project work.

They are made of wool felts and handmade.Just like devil, evil, bloody leg, ghost, eye……

A beautiful exhibition : William Morris--Story Memory Myth

Outside the exhibition----photo by yuki

Today we went to visit a very beautiful and amazing exhibition at Two Temple Place, which will showcase publicly-owned art from UK regional collections, features highlights from the William Morris Gallery collection, based in Walthamstow. Titled 'William Morris: Story, Memory, Myth', the show looks at how Morris told stories through pattern and poetry while examining the tales that were most important to him, such as the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Norse saga, Arthurian legend and Greek myth. Displays include panels of the embroidered frieze 'The Romaunt of the Rose', exhibited together with editions of 'The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer', elaborately illustrated by Morris and Edward Burne-Jones and printed by Morris's private press. The theme of the exhibition echoes the late-Victorian interior of Two Temple Place, which is ornately decorated with scenes and characters from literature.






well as a rule, I bought some beautiful postcard , I love them



Some notes in my sketchbook

Went to Oxford

 Before the Christmas holiday, we went to Oxford to visit two museums for our study project. One is Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford  and the other is  Oxford University Museum of Natural History. This was my first time to Oxford, so really happy...

In Oxford University Museum of Natural History.Highlights include dinosaur skeletons, the most complete remains of a dodo anywhere in the world, and a comparative collection of mammal skeletons.

In addition to the big animal exhibits, the museum is packed with interesting insects, fascinating fossils, and marvellous minerals.

There’s also an active beehive and a most amazing, and very well studied, Swift population living in the ventilation flues of the Museum’s tower.

Very nice tutor Adrian

a cockroach!!

And after  the  we visited another one. I think the Pitt River  museum is one of the most special, magical places in the country! For myself, an illustration student and the whole place is full of inspiring objects. The way of classifying the objects (i.e. by their function rather than their age or place of origin) creates an amazing story of human kind. It enables you to see that people all over the world over thousands of years have been making tools and objects in similar ways for similar purposes. It is a spectacular building (don't EVER move), yes, dimly lit. The objects have hand written labels, not boards full of writing. You learn by looking, not by reading.

the  administrator of Pitt River museum  introduce  for   us 

An amazing exhibition at British Museum

Lasts weeks  I went to British Museum with my friends and we visited an exhibition which is named  Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. Every object is very beautiful and in my opinion I really love it.

Grayson Perry long cherished an ambition to show his own art – his own 'civilisation', as he calls it – alongside the great civilisations of the world, but little dreamed the British Museum would agree to his proposal

Perry brings together beautiful pieces including Buddhist votive offerings, Polynesian fetishes, Japanese portable shrines, and intricate embroidery next to his own tapestries, organised into themes of the sacred, "magick", maps, sexuality and gender, patina and texture.

 I like this badges

More of the badges Perry has chosen to put on show. They date from 1913 to 2001

the artworks are so wonderful!

Perry was involved in all aspects of the enterprise, including design, marketing, special events and even visually impaired access. This is a headscarf he designed for the gift shop entitled 'Friendly Giant'

A detail from one of Perry's cloths

 Perhaps one of the most impressive works on show is Perry’s Map of Truths and Beliefs, (above) an immense tapestry laden with images of pilgrimages, religious and secular. More interesting still though, is the exhibit Perry has chosen to sit opposite his stitched masterpiece, a souvenir hand towel from Japan, featuring two Hello Kitty characters dressed in traditional pilgrim attire.

A detail from the tapestry 'Map of Truths and Beliefs'

A 1990s Mexican figurine from Metepec chosen for inclusion by Perry

                                            Perry's The Rosetta Vase, 2011

Finally I brought two postcard, I 'd like buy it after I visited an exhibition. it’s a fascinating show created by a thoroughly nice chap.

A visit for our group presentation : Miracles & Charms

Because we must to do a group presentation, so we decided to go to Welcome Collection and visited the exhibition: Miracles & Charms.
Infinitas Gracias: Mexican Miracle Paintings  is like no exhibition we’ve seen before. It collects together over 100 votive paintings, each showing a desperate situation eased by the intervention of a saint. If, say, you fall off a ladder in Mexico and pray to your saint of choice, you’d be honour-bound upon your recovery to create or commission a votive painting by way of gratitude.

The little mircale paintings which I found to be intriguing and captivating ---each painting was accompanied with the story behind the Votive, the miracle that saved the person. The miracle paintings depict the moment of  disater when an individual asks the saint for help ---there seemed to be a lot of people saved from accidents, and even a few thanking the Saints for saving livestock.

 Another exhibition is Charmed LivesThe second half of the exhibition on Miracles and Charms at Wellcome Collection looks at 400 amulets which have been collated by artist Felicity Powell from Henry Wellcome's collection. Ranging from coins, carved shells, dead animals to elaborate notes, the original collection was started by the folklorist Edward Lovett, which bought the curios from various Londoners, including barrowboys and sailors, before selling them onto Wellcome.

Every people must be like Childhood Museum!!

I visited the Childhood Museum many times. But I always feel very happy everytime.There are a huge selection of toys and games on display,From dolls houses passed down generations within the aristocracy to modern day play things and mechanical toys. which certainly brought back some memories .
We drawing and happying inside.

also I bought one postcard 

A visit ： V&A ‘ Postmodernism：Style& Subversion’ exhibition



Last Oct 21, We went to V&A with our tutor and a group of classmates and visit an exhibition---‘ Postmodernism：Style& Subversion’. That is really good exhibition.The exhibition explores the radical ideas that challenged Modernism; overthrowing purity and simplicity in favour of exuberant colour, bold patterns, artificial looking surfaces, historical quotation, parody and wit and above all, a newfound freedom in design. See over 250 objects across all areas of art and design and revisit a time when style was not just a ‘look’ but became an attitude.


http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/postmodernism-style-and-subersion-1970-1990/

But there is not allowed to take pictures , so I just make some notes and just do some drawing to record.Below:



I really like Leigh Bowery and his arts.
Bowery is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980s and 1990s London and New York art and fashion circles influencing a generation of artists and designers. His influence reached through the fashion, club and art worlds to impact, amongst others, Alexander McQueen, Lucian Freud, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George, Antony and the Johnsons, John Galliano, the Scissor Sisters, David LaChapelle, Lady Bunny plus numerous Nu-Rave bands and nightclubs in London and New York which arguably perpetuated his avant garde ideas.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Bowery)