March 2011

As part of the On Collecting art project Sophie Skellern and Ruth Evans have shown an interest in what goes on behind the scenes, the storage, the restoration and preservation and the responses of visitors to the collection. Julia Flatman, Senior Associate Lecturer, School of Visual Arts Sophie...

As part of the On Collecting art project Fran Stewart and Bev Miller have responded to the material qualities of Plastic as an art making material, for the production of sound or as a sculptural substance. Julia Flatman, Senior Associate Lecturer, School of Visual Arts Fran Stewart My focus for this...

As part of the On Collecting art project Kayleigh King and Sian Bush look at the nature of collecting itself, the human desire to collect display and tell stories with objects and images, but also as an obsessive-compulsive behaviour. Julia Flatman, Senior Associate Lecturer, School of Visual Arts...

As part of the On Collecting art project Pascale Wilson and Rachel Di Biaso deal with ‘truth and untruth’, by mimicking classification systems and display devices. Pascale has created a mythological creature and Rachel responded to existing artefacts with a contemporary revision of the form. Julia...

As part of the On Collecting art project Rachel Benjamin has explored museums as spatial systems that contain or frame everything they exhibit. The arrangement of the displays, the plinths and the labels are all formal constructions affected by the surrounding elements, other objects, lighting and...

As part of the On Collecting art project Amy Forrest and Alison Board consider the status of artefacts. The use of the glass display case as a magical device to transform collections or worthless objects into valuable works of art. The vitrine becomes integral to the work sculpturally and spatially...

As part of the unit ‘Articulating Time and Space’ BA Fine Art level 4 students were offered the opportunity to respond to the Museum of Design in Plastics. Not specifically to the collection of plastics but to the idea of Museology. Museums, the classification and systems for archiving–which relate...

Did you know MoDiP started life in 1988 as a small collection of objects used as a teaching resource? A selection of objects from the MoDiP collection Originally known as the Design Collection, the museum was created to enhance student learning, providing access to international, historical and...

The MoDiP collection is used in many different ways by the AUB’s students and staff. Back in October 2010 a member of the teaching staff, Sarah Charles from the FdA Fashion Design and Technology, rang me up to request ‘some weird things, the more bizarre the better’. At MoDiP we love a challenge...

MoDiP’s current exhibition Nature’s Plastic: Artefacts from the collection of the Worshipful Company of Horners investigates the historic uses of one of synthetic plastic’s ancestors. This exhibition will be open until 8th April 2011. Horn is defined as the hard material covering the outer soft core...