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Louise is passionate about art and culture, visiting the North West’s wealth of museums and galleries to gain inspiration for her own art and to write her bi-monthly Venture Arts blog.
Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre is a wonderful museum, all about showing a collection of cultural objects and allowing visitors to see the talent that Bury has to offer. There is quite a large collection of artwork and sculpture to see at the museum and it is based on three levels. It’s located in the centre of Bury and is about a 10 min walk from the bus and tram station, which makes public transport to the venue very accessible.
I chose to visit the museum because although I had been to Bury to do shopping with friends and family, I had never been to the museum before and thought it could be rather interesting. I wanted to see if I could get any inspiration for my current art project at Venture Arts and to find out if there was anything interesting going on at the museum.
The detail in the fabric and the amount of colour used was breathtaking and extremely beautiful to look at.
The exhibition that inspired me the most during my visit to this museum was the Rabbit Textile Art Exhibition and the artwork by an artist called Sarah Joy Ford. The detail in the fabric and the amount of colour used was breathtaking and extremely beautiful to look at. It reminded me of a textiles workshop at Venture Arts.
During my visit I saw several pieces I really loved, these were Portraits of Two Artists, Darius 1 and 2, Darius 3 and the Three Fates. I thought these textile pieces were truly spectacular and mesmerising and the quality of the work was of a truly high level. The amount of detail in each piece of work was overwhelming and the skill of some of the detail was truly off the charts.
My favourite piece I saw that day was The Three Fates (pictured above), a piece based on the stories and characters from Beatrix Potter’s books. This reminded me of reading them when I was a child and a time when I wouldn’t read anything else. I also enjoyed looking at the colourful drawings and wishing they would come to life by magic in front of me.
The colour in this work was rather daring and brilliant. Two circles and an inner circle contained the three rabbits. There was also a lot of detail within the two circles. It also reminded me of two other favourite rabbit characters also created by Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny.
The cafe inside the museum was a lovely, quirky place, staff were friendly and professional and the meals were reasonably priced. The name of this cute cafe is Tina’s. I had their deluxe hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows and it was chocolate heaven.
This was a delightful and interesting museum to visit and one that I would highly recommend to my fellow artists at Venture Arts. For me I think this could be a useful resource for more clay projects in the future. This place is definitely worth another visit.
To find out what is on at the museum you can visit www.buryartmuseum.co.uk
