Focus Week 2: Welcome Collection

Walking on from the British Library I visited the Welcome collection which is an exhibition of different forms of work in the Building opposite Euston Station. It is free to enter the Gallery which has a large modern bookshop with a wide range of artist’s books and media design, a cafe, Reference library and three exhibition main spaces showing, mixing medicine, life and art all in one building The Main exhibition being shown on the ground floor was “Sleeping and Dreaming", which investigates the science and need for sleep and dreams and the effects of what this can have on the humans body due to insomnia.

There were videos and films displaying people and their sleeping patterns. This was then shown and recorded by having drawings of the different pattern readings that were carried out as well as artwork. The exhibition also was displaying scientific experiments which look at caffeine products in food and how this can change the appearance of the humans body and knowledge of how well they are aware of there surroundings.