Museum Visits

On my visit to Manchester Urbis i viewed an exhibition by Andrew Brooks called Hidden Manchester. Andrew Brooks is a photographer, digital artist and film maker. His work is based on analogue reality and contemporary urban surroundings, he builds his work by taking hundreds of images and carefully copy and pasteing them to mould a completely new scene. I was really impressed with his work i found it very imaginative and extraordinary i could sit and try to analyze his work all day.

Andrew Brooks stated "walking around any city it is not uncommon to catch glimpses of the world that exists beneath the polished surfaces of glass and steal, snatched glances into an open grate, through a broken hoarding, behind a door ajar, reveal, if only for a moment, a hidden world that serves to support our contemporary imaginings of our urban environments". When i first read this statement it made me think about the things we take for granted and the things we could use as inspiration that we by pass and don't even acknowledge in our everyday busy lives.

These are some of my favourite pieces unfortunately you cant take photos of this exhibition but i picked up information, which had Andrew Brooks website details on it http://www.andrewbrooksphotography.com/

This pieces is called Great Abel, named after Abel Heywood, Manchester's radical mayor who championed the building of the Town Hall, Great Abel rings out the Town Hall clocks hour chimes.

This was inside the Refuge Assurance Building and supports the main grand chandelier. I liked this photo because he took a simple boring looking scene and turned it into something interesting especially with the curves and angles in the photo itself.

This piece is called Quiet Refuge and was taken from behind the Palace Theatre sign i was drawn to this piece because it was so difficult to see what it was about and doesn't give anything away it initially caught my eye in the museum because of the colour been so mysterious and vibrant.

This piece is Angelic View, which i feel lives up to its name i think Andrew Brooks has captured the detail and really done the piece justice and has managed to show people just how fantastic it is.