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Strengthening Bonds
The Pre-Raphaelite Experiment was set to up to discover what Manchester Art Gallery’s Pre-Raphaelite collection means to the people of Manchester. Throughout the experiment schools have been coming to the
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In Response to Answering the Emigrant’s Letter – James Collinson
Members of Studio One’s Photography group have made their own photographs in response to the Pre-Raphaelite Experiment. Studio One is an arts and health based organisation based in Wythenshawe. Members
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Inside and Outside thoughts and feelings
The day had arrived for Amanda to go and get creative with Year 10 students from Burnage Media College. She had worked with them as part of the Pre-Raphaelite Human
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‘I like autumn and playing with crunchy leaves’
In the heart of Blackley village the reception children of Pike Fold Primary School were looking forward to a day of making mosaic leaves with artist and gallery educator Amanda
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Spring Leaves
Year 3 pupils from Cheetwood Community Primary School enjoyed a day of creating mosaic leaves with mosaic artist and gallery educator Amanda McCrann. Having visited the gallery for the season inspired workshop Journaling
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Inspired by Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves features the younger sisters of Millais’ wife (Previously Ruskin’s wife!). The two older girls, while the other two girls were locals from the Perthshire village where Millais lived.
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The Hireling Shepherd (detail)
Based on St John’s Gospel – bible story where sheep go astray and are taken by wolves it had resonance with what was going on in the Church of England
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Inspired by Answering the Emigrant’s Letter
Drawing on urgent social problems of the time concerning emigration, this was a topical subject in 1850′s. Between 1847 and 1852 one and a half million people , many of
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