City of 1000 Stories: Seminar with Robert Perry at Outline

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Seminar with Robert Perry at Outline

Robert Perry RBSA was the first artist to visit outline for the city of 1000 stories project. Rob was the perfect guest speaker to launch the project because of his life and work. As an artist from Birmingham he has travelled throughout Europe to draw and paint landscapes that bare the marks of two world wars. He has become a popular character in France bringing his Birmingham background and experiences to the people of northern France whilst returning to Birmingham with fresh insights from his contact with French culture and our shared tragedies that lie in the brutal past.

Robert Perry at work in Aveluy Wood, 7th Feb. 2000

Robert Perry - The Somme Battlefields 1914-18, Setting sun in Trenches

Robert Perry - The Somme Battlefields 1914-18, Trenches in Aveluy Wood

Robert Perry brought with him a box full of relics, which he had found or he was given by local farmers during his excursions across Europe.

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What we are about

The idea is to look at Birmingham as a rich and diverse collection of stories. Whether it is about the past or the future, imaginary or factual, realistic or fantastical, how does your story begin and develop? And how can it be told?

Here at Outline our mission is to develop a greater understanding and use of drawing as a driver of rich experimentation and exploration. Everyone can draw, everyone can make their mark, everyone could leave a trace, and therefore everyone can tell their story, or their part of the story that makes up the book of Birmingham.

We are planning to develop these ideas through projects with their own students and more importantly to link with community groups of all persuasions so that some of the 1000 stories that Birmingham generates can be told through the visual arts.