Home is Where the Art is

Had a busy few weekends recently and amongst the family visits, illness, gardening, DIY, demolition, social gatherings, bake-offs and walks, we've also seen some great exhibitions - appealing to both our geeky and creative side. And they've been right on our doorstep!

A trip to Much Wenlock to stock up on meat and delicious goodies from our favourite butchers A Ryan and Son, led to an impromptu stop at Twenty Twenty Gallery.

Much to my delight we had managed to catch the final day of the exhibition Works on Paper, by Adrian Henri. Inspired as a student by Adrian Henri and the 'Liverpool poets' and their style of written word it was great observe his experiences and perceptions of life expressed in a different format. It really made my day to be honest and I'll definitely be keeping more of an eye on the listings for future visits : )  http://www.twenty-twenty.co.uk/ .

Meccano Mania at Enginuity (Ironbridge Gorge Museums) was next. Geeky? It certainly was but boring? Definitely NOT! Appealing to all ages, this was an exhibition of imagination, engineering, vision, passion and more in the biggest display of Meccano I've ever seen. It was brilliant and our 2 kiddiwinks (Ruby 8 and Fred 4) thought is was great too ... even asking for meccano for their birthdays.

"Every great engineer this century has started off with Meccano"
                                                                     Meccano Mania Exhibitor

Nipping across the Enginiuty courtyard we visited Ironbridge CORE. This digital installation forms part of the London 2012 Festival - the UK's biggest ever nationwide festival.

Strangely hypnotic, it is hard to imagine just from reading the literature - just how appealing watching the androgynous figures tumbling, twisting and turning across the five gigantic screens is. We were all enthralled including the children.

It was refreshing to see such an ambitious and large scale piece of installation art tucked away in Coalbrookdale rather than centre stage in a city gallery.  Now we're looking forward to catching more of the 2012 events!

Be back soon with more news of what we've been up to,

Esther (Mrs GC)