Tuesday, 17 September 2013

LO1 - KTA1 - The Paper Museum

Drawing the Summer: The Paper Museum

http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/graves-gallery/exhibitions/current/the-paper-museum

Purpose
"In The Paper Museum, Sheffield-based artist Paul Evans brings together ideas and work from many years of passionate engagement with the mysteries of nature. From a life-sized drawing of a spade-toothed whale - an extremely rare, deep diving, species and that has never been seen alive – to the weird and wonderful Bestiary of Bones, skeletal drawings of creatures which may only exist in your imagination, The Paper Museum poses a simple but profound question: what does it mean for a drawing to be 'true to life'?"

The purpose of the event is to show work related to paper throughout the ages and its engagement with nature. 

Content
The content of the exhibition is paper related work that shows the work throughout the ages related to paper, all the work is arranged by Paul Evans.

Target Audience
The target audience is those generally intrested in art, those who have particular intrest in work with paper, those a fan of Paul Evans and his work and someone taking part in all the programmes as the part of the exhibitions.

Design/style
The design and style is open room presenting the work around the rooms.

Location
The event is held at Graves Galleries from Thursday the 10th of July 2014 till Saturday the 16th of August 2014. It is open Wednesday till Friday from 10am–3pm/ Saturday 11am–4pm/ Closed Sunday-Tuesday, Bank Holidays & Easter Weekend

Suitability
The event is suitable showing paper related work from all the ages covering a variety of different types of paper work. This means that the title is suitable as the work comes from different ages as the title uses the word "museum" making it suitable. The work is paper related. The work would be suitable for most ages as the work can not be easily harmed. However younger children probably under 4 could be a problem.

Legal & Ethical
No mention of alcohol, and i highly doubt any of his work would cause offence to anyone.

Health & Safety
There is no mention of safety or any shown safety in the images, but most of the works would only harm you if you were to get unnecessarily close to the work.

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