Independent Meeting With Thursday Late Group #1 - 12.03.15

Workshops, publications, project running, project managers, visual graphics team?
How to sort people out into groups and what groups they might be - better to be flexible and interchangeable, course not relevant.

Points taken from the first meeting at Manchester Art Gallery:

• women's artwork is less valuable - important art pieces were removed from the gallery during the war while less 'valuable' and 'important' pieces, predominantly by women, were left.
• responsible living, sustainability
• link between 1930s and today
• depression and recession, class and value
• the link between art and design, what bridges the gap

General ideas based on the above: broken plates, crockery, china, make-do-and-mend workshop, part of Lily's practice and could make a really great workshop. Parties, the Bauhaus, design from that era, how does this relate to now. Design through the years, how does a depression or a recession influence art and design, does affordability come into it? Re-use cups for drinks on the night: jars, tins, old mugs, etc. Look at 1930s Manchester, maybe have the rooms titled different things, discussing or looking at something different from that time.

"85 Years Later" - a retrospective

'85 Years Later - A retrospective on design throughout... (?)'

City News, Date Stamps, thinking of a title and coming up with a solid identity. 1930s angle seems to be of strong interest to the majority of the group - themed music, performances, thinking about costume and dress, maybe a performance wearing those clothes using those designs but in a dialogue that is more representative of current issues and modern society - they could be making a social comment.

Possible Workshops: typewriter, communal, public could type comments in, what they liked about the exhibition etc, cloth/drawing/quilt making, hung? Draped on the floor? Using fabric pens etc, in response to a particular piece/set of pieces/particular exhibition. In the atrium, large piece, hung?

Furniture. building, deconstructing, having instructions for a bed but the pieces for a chair and asking them to construct the bed to see how they combat it. Less figurative, more conceptual maybe? Get things back to looking, experiencing, initial reactions and responses: making organic structures and pieces.

LOOK IN CHARITY SHOPS, WAREHOUSES, SKIPS ETC, things left around the studio, think re-using, gathering materials, sustainability.