It was the penultimate weekend for their main exhibition Play Well which was all about the nature of play - what it is, how psychological interpretation of it and incorporation within school and kindergarten settings and toy manufacturing has changed over time, and why it's important (for both children and adults). It was a very enjoyable exhibition and I spent a lot of time in there!
It was a BSL tour (also translated into spoken English) of the exhibition Monochromatic Minds - a monochrome collection of artworks from self-taught disabled and outsider artists from all around the world.
The tour gave us a little insight into 7 of these artists, and how their life situations (their losses, their suffering, their courage, their love, their mental health and their physical body) influenced their creativity and desire to produce art. It was very interesting, and some of the works were incredible. (So many were beautifully minutely detailed, which I'm a sucker for... But also I was enchanted by one artist who had copied sheet music out without being able to read music - to copy out a language one doesn't understand like that, seeing just the shapes and form as beautiful and worth drawing, was strangely inspirational.)After the exhibitions I thought I'd take a stroll along part of Regents Canal.
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| (I also bumped into a colleague from work! Well, we spotted each other across the canal.) |
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| I just loved the warped reflections in the water |
What a picturesque way to end the day!
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