sounddelivery » National Portrait Gallery http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk A fresh approach to communications and training Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:59:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 National Portrait Gallery: Audio features http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/national-portrait-gallery/ http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/national-portrait-gallery/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:46:12 +0000 Mark http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/?p=2783 Brief

The National Portrait Gallery commissioned us to produce a series of audio features to promote its monthly Visualising Portraits picture descriptions sessions for blind and partially-sighted visitors.

The lectures are lively and interactive, provoking much discussion and conversation. Each session takes place in the gallery, seated in front of the painting whilst experienced artists and describers give a detailed verbal description of a particular work from the collection. Each month focuses on a different portrait, from the famous to the infamous!

Outcome

The audio features we produced covered a whole range of portraits and styles, from contemporary artists like Eduardo Paolozzi to legends of Romanticism like John Keats.

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Joseph Severn, who had nursed his friend in Rome, described the circumstances recreated in this posthumous portrait:

‘This was the time he first fell ill and had written the Ode to the Nightingale on the morning of my visit to Hampstead. I found him sitting with the two chairs as I have painted him & was struck with the first real symptoms of sadness in Keats so finely expressed in that poem.’

Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi was a Scottish sculptor and artist. He was a major figure in the international art sphere working on his own interpretation and vision of the world. Paolozzi investigated how we can fit into the modern world to resemble our fragmented civilization through imagination and fantasy. One of his most well known sculptures is of Sir Isaac Newton which oversees the comings and goings in the courtyard at the British Library.

]]> http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/national-portrait-gallery/feed/ 0 Visualising Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/visualising-portraits-at-the-national-portrait-gallery/ http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/visualising-portraits-at-the-national-portrait-gallery/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Mark http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/?p=2669

The National Portrait Gallery offers free Visualising Portraits picture descriptions for Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors on the last Thursday of each month. To help promote their work the Gallery commissioned sounddelivery to produce a series of audio features to illustrate what happens at the sessions and encourage more people to attend.
Listen to Marion Cole as she guides her group through Joseph Severn's portrait of his friend John Keats. ]]> The National Portrait Gallery offers free Visualising Portraits picture descriptions for Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors on the last Thursday of each month. To help promote their work the Gallery commissioned sounddelivery to produce a series of audio features to illustrate what happens at the sessions and encourage more people to attend.

The lectures are very lively and interactive and provoke much discussion and conversation. Each session takes place in the gallery, seated in front of the painting whilst experienced artists and describers give a detailed verbal description of a particular work from the collection. Each month focuses on a different portrait, from the famous to the infamous!

The sessions we were asked to attend covered a whole range of portraits and styles taking in contemporary artists like Eduardo Paolozzi to legends of Romanticism like John Keats.

Joseph Severn, who had nursed his friend in Rome, described the circumstances recreated in this posthumous portrait: ‘This was the time he first fell ill & had written the Ode to the Nightingale on the morning of my visit to Hampstead. I found him sitting with the two chairs as I have painted him & was struck with the first real symptoms of sadness in Keats so finely expressed in that poem.’


Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi was a Scottish sculptor and artist. He was a major figure in the international art sphere working on his own interpretation and vision of the world. Paolozzi investigated how we can fit into the modern world to resemble our fragmented civilization through imagination and fantasy. One of his most well known sculptures is of Sir Isaac Newton which oversees the comings and goings in the courtyard at the British Library.

]]> http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/visualising-portraits-at-the-national-portrait-gallery/feed/ 0 sounddelivery training courses for the MLA http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/sounddelivery-training-courses-for-the-mla/ http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/sounddelivery-training-courses-for-the-mla/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:47:55 +0000 Mark http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/?p=992 mla_c_blueblacksounddelivery has been invited to deliver a series of social media courses on behalf of MLA London. We’ll be delivering our social media knowhow, digital storytelling and podcasting courses to staff from Museums, Libraries and Archives based round the capital. We’ve been building up our expertise in the museums and heritage sectors over the past few years – running tailored events and training workshops and working within museums on social inclusion projects. We have a close working relationship with the Museum of London and have co-ordinated 2 projects with them, and we will soon be working with the National Portrait Gallery to create audio evaluations for one of their outreach programmes.

You can find further details about the up-coming courses via the MLA London website, or by downloading this pdf training programme:

http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/WFD200910MLAL.pdf

The workshops are taking place on the following dates:

November 4th Social Media Know How

November 19th Digital Storytelling

Booking form for MLA London’s training courses. Terms and Conditions: Please note the terms and conditions for booking on an MLA London course have changed. Please read the booking form carefully before submitting it.

To book a place on these courses please complete the booking form and return to by email to bookings@mlalondon.org.uk or by post to: Bookings, MLA London, Fourth Floor, 53-56 Great Sutton Street, London, EC1V 0DG

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