Swansea Museum has always been very supportive in giving us access to their collections for a number of workshops and projects. This has included access to their stores which house many of the exhibits that used to be in the Waterfront Museum. We have had several excellent drawing days there.
Our next online exhibition for April features a collaboration with Swansea Museum, who provided access to their Natural History collection. This extensive collection is not on public display and is housed in the Museum Stores. The collection includes a wide range of taxidermy and insects.
Such museum collections can still play a role in education and give insight into both animal and social history and as such are accessed regularly by researchers, students, scientists and artists.
For artists the chance to get up close and draw an anatomically accurate specimen is an amazing opportunity.
Visiting Artist Kelly Stewart ran the Natural History workshop, her enthusiasm for direct observation made her the ideal tutor to lead the artists, encouraging them to work with a wide range of mark making materials.
Participants spent a day drawing at the museum and then were guided through the screenprinting process to produce a small boxed set of cards from their drawings.
The cards and selected prints were displayed in 2019 alongside some specimens from the Museum collection. Some of these? were put on display in the Museum in 2019 alongside drawings and prints from a workshop lead by visiting artist Kelly Stewart.
If you were one of the participants on this course please send any prints / drawings you would like us to include to
Jackie Ford | jmford@ntlworld.com by March 28th.
