Gateheads Baltic

ROBERT BREER 30.09.1926 – 11.08.2011 Breers exhibition consists of his paintings, ground- breaking films and major sculptures from the past 60 years. He has been considered to be one of the most influential animator/ film- maker in history and one of his last but most comprehensive exhibitions to date.
Although Breers’ exhibition was unusual to see everything move, I found it rather absorbing to see why he used the products he did and how he made them move. Most of the exhibit was colourful and wasn’t a normal exhibit where everything is on the walls, his motion picture of the train running along the track was quite wonderful to view as it was the image never changed but the train kept going.

Visit to the Baltic

Maurizio Anzeri

Anzeris curious collections from 1930s & 1940s photographs with vibrant threads stitched directly into each photograph, obscuring parts of their faces creating different dimensions to each face. 

I thought Anzeri had a different approach to old photographs, creating different situations on not being able to view their faces. The portraits were more creative as it was only one person but the family photographs proved how extensive his art is. A refreshing approach to 1930s & 1940s photographs by simply adding vibrant threads. 

Laing Art Gallery

Barnaby Barford 
Barford creates exclusive pieces, made from ceramics reflecting everyday society.  
These creative pieces show how an average day in socitey, reflectong from playing the National Lottery, shopping in the local supermarket to buying a car. The quirkiness and colour of each piece shows how passionate Barford is about his work, even down to the dates on the lottery tickets, to the different tones onto the pigeons. 

Laing Art Gallery

Colin Booth. 
Booth creates playful cityscapes out of thousands of wooden blocks, inspiring children, adults & architects.
I found Booths exhibition quite simple but spectacular, as he put the whole thing together by hand. I thought it didn't resemble cityscapes until you found a different position observing his exhibition. After you read his blog, I understood how it worked and enjoyed the playfulness of it.