Piccadilly Gardens - LS Lowry This was a brilliant gallery, unfortunately we had to rush around it but you could easily spend alday here. I really liked the Manchester Gallery, on the ground floor, which celebrates the creativity of Manchester from the old textile industry to its contemporary arts and design scene. It shows how the city has changed over the years through a range of work from ceramics and furniture to video and photography. It included pieces by famous artisits such as LS Lowry and Adolphe Valette to contemporary artists and designers and even work produced by local communities. There was a painting of Piccadilly Gardens, which we had visited earlier, by LS Lowry. It was really interesting to see how this area looked fifty years ago and the changes it had undergone.
The Clore Interactive Gallery was a really nice idea with hands on activities to explore artwork and even create your own. Children were really catered for in the gallery, more than I'd seen before. With each exhibition there was a seperate space with interactive activities making the gallery a really fun place for children to be.
Dysfunctional Family - Yinka Shonibare
Alien Nation was a unique exhibition of film, sculpture and cinema posters talking about fears and fantasies for the future. 'Twelve contemporary international artists use science fiction and extra-terrestrial forms to explore racial difference as a metaphor for the threat of the outsider,' www.manchestergalleries.org
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