Today I officially began a placement working with the decorative arts collection team at Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. The first project we have been tasked with is a research and documentation project, requested from an external contact in Leeds. To contextialise the project, I researched Jewish involvement in the clothing industry in the United […]
This blog post contains the Audience Development Strategy document I developed in collaboration with Hyowon Choi, another student in my project group. Introduction Section 1: Age Section 2: Family structure & life stage Section 3: Income and employment Section 4: Education level obtained Section 5: Digital use and streaming Section 6: Ethnicity Section 7: Disability […]
After re-reading a number of texts about digital materiality, I now have a much clearer idea of the range of theories surrounding it, and have formed the plan for my literature review. Whilst reading, I attempted to identify definitions and ideas of it that were relevant to my research questions. I questioned how one could […]
Over the past 2 months I have volunteered in a number of different capacities at the Portico library: Further book cleaning and minor-repairs using glue: using 3 different types of glue including ‘Cellugel’ described as ‘A safe, penetrating consolidant for leather book cover affected by red rot (powdery deterioration). Will not harm paper or other […]
On 13th October 2021 myself and another volunteer had our first collections care session with Jim Duff (former book binder and head of collections care for University of Manchester at the John Rylands Library, Main Library and more). The session could be viewed as a basic introduction to the principles of book conservation but also […]
Over the past few weeks we’ve had the Christmas break and since the last post I’ve been writing my individual assignment whilst the exhibition develops online and the portfolio is compiled. Some of the things I’ve been working on over the past month: I wrote a section on Intended Audience in collaboration with another student […]
This week marked a significant change in direction for our group project. This was instigated by a couple of key things. One factor was my conversation with Maya. She reiterated what Elaine, Andy, Kostas and others had indicated, that collaboration isn’t realistic or ethical for a short-term project. Whilst talking to Maya, I mentioned an […]
One of our group has drafted a standardised ‘permissions email’ for us to send out that was approved by the course leader. I will need to ask ROOT-ed Zine for permission to use their issue on work, saftey4sisters to ask permission to show the cover art from the report on COVID and Poor Lass Podcast […]
We had our proposal feedback this week. There was 2 main pieces of feedback for us to consider: 1. ‘Hyperlocal targeting needs further explanation, what will there be for audiences outside the group?’ We did include a note about secondary audiences in the proposal: Whilst we aim to create a suitable space for KC to […]
Workers Leaving Gossage’s Soap Works in Widnes in 1901 and Family History
Courtesy of @JadeFrench and @catalystSDC (twitter) I often like to research my family history using the Ancestry website, I have dipped in and out of it for years but put the most work into it in around 2014. I asked my Grandad and my mum to send photographs of my ancestors; I’ve got a particularly […]