Arteests of Loughborough unite!

My sister Alice really is the most creative person I know. She can take just about any medium and make it into something funny, interesting, inventive and Alice. This week is a landmark for her as she finally comes to the end of an era and finishes her degree in 3D furniture design - Alice we salute you!! We hope your hard work will make you rich and famous. At least famous.

All of the different art courses at Loughborough University are currently holding an exhibition for students to show of their work to family, friends and professionals. We went down on Friday night and experienced the weird, wacky and brilliant offerings, and I thought I would take you to the gallery with me . . .

My apologies to all you cat lovers out there, but this first installation had me and Mike in stitches!! Would you like fries with that?


The exhibition was so busy and at times it felt like we were at a big concert or something, there was no moving back or forward. We were just sandwiched between people. My mum's worst nightmare!



So this is Alice, soon to be a professional. She even has her own business cards printed and ready to go! She had three pieces on display. Her class will be taking their work to a national exhibition called 'New Designers' in London. Most of them have been invited to take one piece for one week - Alice has been asked to take all three of her pieces for the full three weeks. Can you tell I'm proud?

These are her stools - the design is pretty inovative - it has you sitting end on, on rolled up paper. It's surprisingly sturdy!

Item number two - her table. The finish on this is absolutely superb. Far better than anything else in the show, an extremely good professional standard.

And finally her adjustable coat stand. I saw it before she added the colour, and the colour has really added to it in my opinion. I love this and wish we could have it in our house.

There were a few different themed exhibits. Photography, and of course with Loughborough University's reputation for sport, there had to be some pictures of our athletes.

There's also a lot of foreign students which was I theme - I loved these . . .

And some scenes from British life . . .

There were some funny installations. This one was pretty memorable - a horror theme. You entered through a dark curtain and could look through two little peep holes. It wasn't until afterwards that you realised you were the eyes looking through the creepy Bates motel picture!! Mike was faking it but I was actually scared!

Some bold use of colour in the fine art exhibit . Looks like one guy is sweeping the area for coins.

I liked this one, Mike didn't.

We all got quite into it and tried to take some arty pictures of our own.

This one was in jewellery and silversmithing. Not so impressive until you see the scale. They are actually teeny tiny humming birds. Cute!

There was textiles . . .

But probably the laugh out loud funniest was the foundation art exhibit. I mean what the? A guy riding a cornflake rooster? (Actually that would make breakfast a lot of fun)

Some kid created a little hide out inside a locker . . .

And this was the stand alone funniest thing of the whole evening. I am giggling now just looking at it. I think it was a self portrait. Perhaps an exercise in stage make up - look out Hollywood!

No art exhibition would be complete with out a Jim and Shiela life size figurine. They just add class.


That's all for now art lovers. I hope you have enjoyed our little walk through the imaginations of Loughborough's students. Here's to Alice - may her future be a bright one!!!

M&M x