Lucy Burscough

The Launch Event

In Arts for Health, Community Arts, Gallery/Museum Projects, Paintings on 27/11/2014 at 14:05

2014 Has Been a Busy Year! Read more about it at Look200.org

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The opening of the Look 200 took place across two venues. The launch of the exhibition of paintings took place in the early evening at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.  It was a great success and very well attended with interesting speeches reflecting on the hospital residency and the exhibition by Brian Chapman of Lime Arts, Wendy Gallagher of Manchester Museum, Professor Rob Lucas of Manchester University’s Faculty of Life Sciences (who features in some of the paintings), and Peter Mount, outgoing Chairman of the Hospital Trust who has been a brilliant advocate for the project throughout.

The sister exhibit of objects that relate to the project then opened at Manchester Museum as part of an ‘After Hours’ evening of vision themed activities that I was excited and honoured to curate.

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At the museum throughout the evening there were opportunities to participate in fascinating activities exploring vision from interesting angles: experience…

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