Paint the Town in Sound Pack

FAMILY TAKEAWAYS: PAINT THE TOWN IN SOUND Welcome to Sunderland Culture’s first family takeaway pack of the year, full of activities, ideas and some incredible artworks to help you explore art, music, words and sound. This pack has been created by the Sunderland Culture team alongside some fantastic local artists who have helped us design activities you can try at home. This time, we’ve been inspired by an to make an exhibition that explores exhibition called ‘Paint the Town in the links between music and art Sound’. This online exhibition can be through fashion, album covers, videos, accessed at: www.sunderlandculture. photographs and paintings. org.uk/paint-the-town-in-sound- Field Music says that online-exhibition/ “we all use music and music culture as a way Paint the Town in Sound is an to construct our identities, and as a exhibition of artworks designed by way to tell stories about ourselves. Sunderland Culture and Mercury Prize Whatever your background, the nominated Sunderland band Field desire to make or remake your Music. Field Music were inspired by identity from songs and images the City’s independent music scene seems universal.” 2 Lots of the artworks in this exhibition have been borrowed from Arts Council CONTENTS Collection, which is like a huge library p6. Spotlight on: Jeremy for art. The largest loans collection of Deller, Uses of Literacy British Art in the world, the collection holds more than 8000 artworks p8. Cabinet of Sounds with Elizabeth Kane including paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and video p12. Spotlight on: Peter Blake, works. Paint the Town in Sound is the Beach Boys second major exhibition of artworks p14. Fantasy Band with Eleanor from Arts Council Collection as part of Matthews the National Partners Programme, our p22. Spotlight on: Helen project with Arts Council Collection, Cammock, There’s a Hole in Newlyn and the Exchange, Cornwall, the Sky, Part 1, and Firstsite Gallery, Colchester. p24. Writing Your Place with We hope you can use this takeaway Amy Lord pack to think about the kind of music p28. Spotlight on: Evan Ifekoya, you like to listen to and how music can The Gender Song inspire us all to be creative, or express p30. Everyone Welcome Disco ourselves. Whether you’re making art with Rachel Brook while listening to music, creating your p36. Spotlight on: Bob and own sounds or stories, or dressing like Roberta Smith, Although your favourite musicians, we think Janis Joplin… (Idiot Board) music and art are a match made in p38. Talking Typography with heaven. Kerry Cook 3 Staying Safe: Notes for parents, guardians and carers: We want everyone using these activities to have lots of fun The activities in this pack have been and stay safe. We can do this designed for children aged 5+. Some together by: use scissors and glue but lots of the ideas can be adapted to suit your • Making sure an adult knows child’s individual needs. where you are at all times and that younger children are well Some of the themes that the artworks supervised in this pack explores might be challenging or spark conversations • Keeping your distance (2 or questions. If you like, have a read metres) from other people through the pack and activities first outside of your family or so you can be prepared to talk about bubble these issues with your child. • Using craft materials carefully. Parents, carers or guardians should supervise the use of glue or scissors. 4 Mental Health and Wellbeing: We know that the past months have been tough for families. If you feel like talking and need a listening ear, there are organisations to help if you aren’t comfortable speaking to those close to you. Samaritans can be reached 24 hours a day every day by calling 116 123, or by email at [email protected] Childline is available to support children and young people under the age of 19 with anything they’re going through and can be reached by calling 0800 1111 or via confidential email through their website www.childline.org.uk Children, young people and adults can also access support for a range of issues by contacting Shout via text to 85258. 5 SPOTLIGHT ON: JEREMY DELLER THE USES OF LITERACY This artwork is made up of drawings, paintings, poems, magazines and other items sent to the artist by fans of the Welsh rock band, Manic Street Preachers. The artist put an advert in a weekly magazine called ‘Melody Maker’ and handed out flyers asking for contributions to an exhibition about the band. He got lots of submissions from the fans of the band around the country and brought the items together for an exhibition. This is an interesting artwork, because it has been made by lots of different people. The artist came up with the idea for the work, but other people have made it for him. He has acted like a collector, or a curator: someone who brings objects or artworks together to tell a new story. On the following pages, you’ll find out more about being a curator, and can make your own collection. 6 The Uses of Literacy, 1997 Jeremy Deller Mixed media installation Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London. Purchased with the assistance of The Art Fund. © the artist 7 audible grinding monotonous a sound loud enough to hear the sound of something hard a sound seems to stay the same moving against another broken musical a sound with spaces in it howling sounds like music Ready to make 'Our Deller-esque Cabinet of Sounds'? a continuous, low, loud noise A drawing by Elizabeth Kane and YOU (2021) deafening muffled a sound so loud you cannot hushed a sound that is difficult to hear hear anything else a quiet sounds percussive dulcet lilting a short sound like someone soft and pleasant a sound that rises and falls hitting a drum ear-splitting loud piercing painfully loud a sound that is strong and easy to a sound that is very loud, high, hear and unpleasant explosive a sound that is loud mellow pulsating HHHHHHHHHH!!! and unexpected a soft and smooth sound a regular noise like a heartbeat ListenSSS to theH HnoisesH all around.HH The rain on the pavement, the beeping of buttons and the buzz of the boiler on a cold day... You are going to make drawings of In 1997 Jeremy Deller made a things that make sounds. Like collection of objects inspired by a band Jeremy you will create a collection. You called the Manic Street Preachers. He are an artist and curator. got help from the band's fans. The collection is an artwork called, Start by walking around and "The Uses of Literacy". exploring spaces. Get your grown up to help find sounds just like Jeremy got It looks like a display you might see in a fans to help him. Make sure to listen museum. Exhibitions in a museum or carefully. gallery are often organised by a person called a curator. How would you describe the sounds you have found? On the next page Jeremy Deller's piece is called you will find different types of lines 'The Uses of Literacy'. We usually learn that visually describe the sounds. about literacy at school in English There are words that could be used to lessons. But there is also visual describe them. literacy. Over the page you will find a Visual literacy is about reading images. cabinet with spaces to sketch or We all need to be able to read images draw the sounds. To help there are a and objects to understand their few examples drawn by Elizabeth but meaning. Its a bit like being a detective. you will have your own ideas about how to draw sounds. Visual literacy is important because images are all around us. They are raucous roaring soft Happy exploring, listening and a violent and loud sound a deep, loud noise sending us signals. Some are trying to quiet and peaceful drawing! convince us to do things like an advert resounding sharp sonorous a loud sound that continues for a a sound that is sudden and loud encouraging us to buy something, a pleasant deep sound while others might make us feel something shrill thunderous rhythmic a loud, high, and unpleasant sound like looking at a photograph. loud a sound with a recognisable pattern staccato tumultuous rich each sound can be heard clearly a loud sound that is exciting and a sound that is strong and often and separately The Manic Street Preachers were the first band Elizabeth Kane sometimes violent layered saw perform in concert supported by Catatonia. 8 audible grinding monotonous a sound loud enough to hear the sound of something hard a sound seems to stay the same moving against another brokenaudible grinding monotonousmusical a sounda sound loud with enough spaces to in hear it the soundhowling of something hard a soundsounds seems like to staymusic the same a continuous,moving against low, loudanother noise deafeningaudiblebroken grinding monotonousmuffledmusical aa soundsounda sound loudso with loud enough spaces you cannot to in hear it the sound howlinghushedof something hard aa soundsoundsounds seemsthat is like todifficult stay music the to hearsame hear anything else a continuous,movinga quiet against low,sounds anotherloud noise deafeningbroken percussivemuffledmusical a asound sound so withdulcet loud spaces you cannot in it howlinghushedlilting aa sound shortsounds thatsound is like difficultlike music someone to hear hearsoft andanything pleasant else aa continuous, sounda quietthat rises low,sounds loud and fallsnoise hitting a drum deafening percussivemuffled a soundear-splitting sodulcet loud you cannot hushedliltingloud a asound short thatsoundpiercing is difficultlike someone to hear hearsoftpainfully andanything pleasant loud else a sounda sound thata quiet that is strong risessounds

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