Atomised, one of the works in the exhibition.

Award winning exhibition visits gallery

An exciting solo exhibition featuring new work by the 2005 JD Fergusson Arts Award Winner, Jim Bond will start a tour of venues in England.

First venue will be Stafford's Shire Hall Gallery on Saturday July 29.

To celebrate, the Shire Hall is holding a special family fun day on the same date in the Gallery and Market Square.

Visitors will be able to enjoy and experience this new sensory exhibition, including figurative, kinetic and sound sculptures. Many of the pieces on display will enable the audience to interact with them. Different mechanisms will bring the sculptures to life, including a radio that randomly tunes itself and sculptural heads and wirey figures that react and move as you approach them.

A whole host of other fun activities will be taking place throughout the day in the Gallery and Market Square including:

Chain Reaction: The Great Egg Race meets Scrapheap Challenge! Two teams from Highfields Chillout Club will compete against each other to build a series of ingenious, wacky and inventive contraptions to move an object along a 10 metre course.
Bad Freddy - Dyspraxia: - a visual art project, from the point of view that all media for music, either tapes, CDs or records are artefacts of the music. Bad Freddy will be playing a 78 record at 33, with the stylus replaced with a scalpel. When the scalpel picks up the sound it also destroys the surface and picks up the sound of the cutting.
Art Cart - drop in for fun puppet and badge-making workshops.
Junk Music Workshop - Mum and dad will love this! Learn how to make music using ordinary household objects.
A roadshow which highlights the County Council's commitment to tackling underage drinking will also be present. Visitors will be able to play interactive games around the theme of underage drinking, as well as sample non-alcoholic drinks from a cocktail bar which will be set up in the square.

County Councillor Maureen Compton, Cabinet Support Member for Culture and Heritage said:"We are delighted to welcome this fascinating exhibition to Stafford. It will also include a specially commissioned exciting coin-operated mechanical sculpture by Jim Bond. This piece will remain at the Shire Hall Gallery once the exhibition moves on to its next venue. I am sure that everyone who visits the show will not fail to be amazed by Jim's work and be delighted by it as it is set to surprise all the senses."

The exhibition will also feature digital prints and cabinets containing 10 years worth of small notebooks including images of blasted helmets, crash test dummies, found shopping lists and overheard conversations.

This exhibition was made possible by funding from the JD Fergusson Trust.

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