Great North Museum Visit






















As part of my Sequential Images project I was tasked with going to the local museum and to look at the items for inspiration for a three image sequence I would be creating called a triptych. I had to look through the Items and find things I found interesting or thought I could create a narrative around, weather it be a narrative with environmental/political message or a more straight forward story arc.We were told to try and keep away from the animal exhibits just so we could focus on a story around an inanimate object and be more creative with our ideas. After looking around I was then told to narrow down the objects to my top three and use them as the starting point for my ideas.

These are some of the highlights I found while walking around, I'm very fond of history having studied it in the past somewhat so most of the items that gained my attention were from the Ancient Greek, Ancient Egyptian and the other Cultural exhibits. Though there were some other things that stood out to me like some of the precious stones which really grabbed my attention.


 These are the three Objects I ended up choosing. The head of the Goddess Baast from the Egyptian exhibit, The Stibnite crystal from Tokyo and the Griffin head from the Ancient Greece exhibit.

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