Outline welcomes the Lord Lieutenant of Birmingham.

 Programme manager Ian Andrews and Director of Schools and Corporate Events  Bridget Byrne were proud to welcome representatives of the Lord lieutenant's office.Mr Paul Chandrasekharen Sabapathy CBE the Lord-Lieutenant was appointed in October 2007 and was born in India. His amazing story is another addition to the thousand stories that make up Birmingham and the Midlands.



Martin Tunstall and Denise Lewis reviewed the work produced as part of the live brief run with the Lord lieutenants office for the production of artwork to be displayed in the refurbished offices in Solihull.

Mandy purchase, Freya Rily, Catherine Suen, Suzie Bramich, Tony Simmons, Helen Johnson and Kelly Martin, students on the Foundation  Diploma in Art and Design, gave formal presentations  explaining the ideas behind their constructed textile pieces.

The students are looking forward to a visit to the offices in Solihull to meet the Lord Lietenant himself and discuss the siting of the work and appropriate display methods.

"Live" drawing event at the "Birmingham Made Me" Expo at Millennium point

                                                                                  

The “Engage and Exhibit” group of first year Subsidiary Diploma volunteers from Outline created a large environmental drawing during the “Birmingham Made Me” Expo at Millennium Point. Working live and watched by members of the public from midday until early evening the group improvised a giant composition of aspects of Birmingham.

Well done to the "Engage and Exhibit" group.



Birmingham Childrens Hospital Event

The 1000 stories team in action at the Children's Hospital delivering a version of the flying pages book of Birmingham.

We were invited by Sandhu Amrit from the corporate nursing team “play and activities” Department. During the two days she helped us get the children in the outpatients department telling their stories through making drawings, tracings and rubbings.

We were joined for a short session each day by students from the James Brindley School who enjoyed learning some traditional drawing skills as well as a fun animated silhouette activity.





Further stories - Yellow Week

The recent yellow week for our Subsidiary Diploma in Art and Design centred on the theme of the rich variety of fruit and vegetables now available in the area due to the diversity of the ethnic mix in the region. Just one of the thousand stories that Birmingham generates. Above you can see a short film which captures the week-long activities.

Workshop at Birmingam Museum and Art Gallery

To follow up our first workshop at the BMAG, the Outline team worked once more with a group of participants from the Friends of the gallery. After a brief demonstration by Ian Andrews, the participants used the same methods that artist would use to establish accuracy and proportion in their drawings. The practical workshop at the gallery was concluded by Graham Lawler with an art historical analysis of proportion within the work of past and present artists.

 Above: Observational drawings produced during the workshop on accuracy and proportion.