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Comments on Summer Exhibition 2013

 

 

Fabtastic exhibiton again. Well done to all the artists.

 

Great pieces of art in show. Keep it up!

 

Thankyou this is great for sandwell

STUNNING artwork, I will definatley vist again :)

 

Fantastic display of artwork of high standard.

 

Like the guide books with the images printed in. Easy to find info.

 

This is FAB better than expected

Im impressed wonderful xx

 

Some work very good about time it was used for ART

 

Most intresting & very varied

 

Very good Tracey Emin video The Rest Rather Strange.

 

Very good love Oak House!! And Angel

 

No.2. Bus brings back memories - smashing

 

Very intresting also love Angel xx

 

Intresting works of the Artists!

 

Dog + Halo excellent + IT REALLY A TRUE STORY x

 

OAK HOUSE U.GEOD

 

Fantastic <3

 

Excellent exhbition

 

Great to see local artist work. Some are v.v good

 

Lovely work. Loved seeing all of it great insperation

 

Amasing work! Great art!

 

Great show this year.

Great!

 

Love the Trances & Elephant.

 

Love it inspiring

 

Ive been to every summer exhibiton here- and the standard keeps inproving every year!! Well done all !!

 

An incredible achivement for the Arts Superb ':'.

 

I really enjoyed looking at this exhibiton A great variety of all.

 

Brilliant

 

Faboulus and accurate

 

I absolutly love 'black angel' Fantastic!

 

I like all the works keep up the good works

 

Great for the children!

Great work :)

 

Wolves

 

Love the paintings by D Taylor so life like!!

 

Very good Great work ENJOYED IT

 

Beautiful

 

Wonderful

 

Impressive

 

THIS IS FOR THE PEOPLE OF WEST BROM

Great Place to visit!!!

 

Great Place to visit

 

Keep open

 

keep it open

 

Should of been a night club?

 

Nice arts

 

great, fun, friendly

 

A fantastic exhibiton

 

It’s a great place and its sad its going

 

Keep it open a nice relaxing place & friendly

DAR DAY OUT

 

Very good great place why why why has it got to close

 

COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY NEVER HAVE BEEN IMPRESSED THEIVES BUILT AND PLANNED THIS EXPOSURE

 

The summer exhbition is a wonderful example of truly "Public" Art! Excellent

 

Always enjoy our visits to The Public. Current exhibiton excellent.

 

Some wonderful images, great variety & very enjoyable.

 

I am in Alex Vanns painting- Hes mmy pad! My aunt cours in and grandad have paintings here to.

 

Why?? TOTAL WASTE OF RATE PAYERS MONEY - THE ARTISTS SHOULD GET A PROPER JOB

 

In answer to the one above he would group payed preferred a bootsale

 

Great mix of artwork something for everyone!

I luv it

 

I LIC the PicTuRES

 

Very good

 

Great exhibiton

 

Nicely created mix

 

a nice jumble of bumbling bric-a-brac brilliance

Very good collection, our 1st visit, very impressed

 

Open Monday + Tuesday I said

I LOVED THE PAINTINGS THEY WERE VERY REALISTIC & LIFELIKE

 

Beautiful record

 

Come back to view & feel Angel x

 

 

Comments on Sound canvas on the ramp 2013

 

Very fun and clever who its put together xxx

 

don’t close down…:P

 

Very good for children

 

clever how its put together

 

Its very good

 

Its amasing and cool

 

Boring nothing new to see

 

Silly Funny

 

Great

 

Werid in a good way :) <3

 

Clever very, very, very clever

 

hmmm shocking but FUNNY

 

Cool but FUNNY

 

Really good I like everything about it!!

 

Lots of things to do for the children, would be a shame to go.

 

AMASING

 

Cool but FUNNY

 

WERID

 

Very odd FUNNY ODD

 

Good fun

 

U am a top-4

 

Very good lots of exciting things for kids

 

POO!

 

Really good, very entertaing very different!

 

Fab!! Had a brill time, kids had lots of Fun x

 

I LOVE IT!

 

Greatest place ever!

 

I LOVE THIS PLACE

 

Its my first time here

I like the place

Sexy x

 

I like this place

 

I like pits

 

Wonderful experience the children loved it!

 

Fun :) Ebony

 

BRILLIANT MY KIDS NEVER GET BORED KEEP IT OPEN

 

Very enjoyable experience especially sound canvas

 

Very intersting and lots about history

 

Very enjoyable

 

Very enjoyable

 

Cool art

 

Waz here

 

WE LOVE IT

 

I really enjoyed it todai public all the way

 

good! :)

 

good :)

 

My grandson and myself really enjoyed the experience

 

DON’T CLOSE IT

 

Great fun :)

 

Okay :|

 

A amasing building pice of art

 

an ordinary place

 

it is very fun for kids well done

 

its great to see all the new things shame to close

 

Great few for family

 

Very good

 

Good fun

 

Awesome!! Don’t close down

 

Amasing! Inventive it will be a shame to close down :(

 

Funny

 

Awesome!!

 

Good Funny

 

Scared the wits out of me

 

Really good but scary

 

Not bad

 

Beautiful

 

So much fun

 

Robbish

 

A WASTE OF SPACE THIS IS NOT ART THIS IS FART

 

Best art gallery ever

 

SO FUNY AHA!!

 

Not a great experience, a bit boring. Can see why college want the building!

 

67 & 70 yr olds still walking!!

 

This was so funny it got me I stiches

 

Poo

 

What was that

 

GREAT

 

Good fun!

 

Totally awesome

 

Very good

 

Wast of mony!!!

 

It is amasing

 

 

 

 

 

Comments on  Martin Parr  Black Country Stories

 

 

A very comprehensive archive of the Black Country

 

I enjoyed it and it was a fascinating experience. (Age 8)

 

I loved it and I want to come again (Age 6)

 

Brilliant. Captures the area’s traditions and shows many old traditions/customs that have collapsed

 

The fact that this project has happened is good enough

Good images such as image 713

 

I think your images of West Brom are greats. Show true character of town.

 

Fantastic, thoughtful, amazing show! Thank You! 

 

Thoroughly enjoyed the show

 

Some photos I recognise. Well done.

 

Is nice to be here

 

I like this exhibition as it shows the Black Country as a multi-cultural community

 

A pictorial love-letter to an area and its’ people. I particularly liked the sweet factory images

 

I like it. So life…

 

Not too bad

 

 

Good! Love the candy pictures!

Local Globalisation

 

Great Photos – same as downstairs- should be more photos in such a huge area

 

 

Good Photos ☺

 

Good sound and photos

 

Good photos upstairs and downstairs

 

Excellent Images

 

Just Brilliant!

 

There’s something about these images that is un-Parr like. I’m not sure why – respect perhaps?

 

Ideal to show future generations

 

This is my first visit to West Bromwich in 38 years. It will be another 38 before I return. The odd photograph is ok, but almost none stand out. My mother is a member of the RPS and could do as well if not better. I welcome the existence of the gallery but surely money that could have been fund for a swimming pool and a cinema. Need sorting of priorities.

 

My children really enjoyed the photos

 

Could do with real art work in the international gallery

 

He deserves his fame. Superb work!

 

Its very, very, very interesting hmmm…

 

Refreshing (I think Mr Clayton above is missing the point!) An interesting perspective of the Black Country

 

Wow its sik

 

Nice

 

I like it here its good cool

 

Looks great

 

Beautiful, eye opening… For a stranger it gives a great sense of place and makes me think more of the culture of my own home town

 

An insightful view of the reality of life in West Bromwich

 

Nice photos, but to many people, not enough buildings

 

Great representation of my area. Nobody smiles

 

Loved the accent liked the talking

 

Great to see the area I grew up in like this – I loved it ☺

 

Nice to see pics of people in our area

 

Good excellent seeing really people

 

Amazing, modern

 

Great ☺

 

Good

 

Fantastic

 

Photojournalism student at Staffs Uni – happened to stumble upon this – amazing! Martin Parr is a massive inspiration ☺ trying to convince my boyfriend!

 

Twitter/Dadge – good one!

 

Good ☺

 

Good ☺

 

Thanks Multistory for doing this/ Great

 

Would look better in frames, great

 

Its good

 

My roots are in West Brom I just loved all of the photographs as they captured every aspect of the wonderful, warm hearted Black Country people. Thank you. I shall revisit the Public again and again

 

Beautiful photos!

 

Love the pictures of Teddy Grays – I can smell the sweets in the air

 

WHY?

 

Standards are high

 

Excellent work Kiddo

 

Very relaxing and very good. Fascinating pictures. Lovely place

 

Good pics and calming

 

Enjoyed our visit. Loved everything about it. Well done

 

Bit sad really how Sandwell use to be with all the busy industry and how it is now. But good stuff

 

Finally on the 3rd floor something to see and focus on!

 

Very interesting exhibition would like to have seen more of the industrial landscape of Black Country

 

Very lovely and beautifull

 

Excellent work. Keep it up…

 

Superb!

 

The real deal. Conservative politicians wouldn’t recognise the culture

 

Brilliant

Very enjoyable community poetry

 

RPS Midlands digital imaging best by far

 

It is very exciting place its very nice thank you ☺

 

Is vear nice

 

My comment is that the exb is interesting

 

Wonderfully evocative!

 

Admirable mixing of humour and respect

 

Disappointed by choice of photos selected. Larger prints are better to view than smaller set. We have seen a better standard of Martin Parr images in the past.

 

Disappointing no kids

 

Superb!

 

First visit, Il come again

 

Very interesting

 

My Auntie Christine is in the picture of teddy grays

 

Waste of money, boring, desperate

 

Fantastic storytelling, sense of place, wish there was a book!

 

Wonderful evening of inspirational images

 

Wonderful curation, love how so many photos look so impressive

 

Love the elephant photo because I collect elephants

 

When do we get to buy the book?

 

The softer you speak the more I listen

 

Fantastic

 

Comments for To You From Super Me - friction arts

 

 

“Very good stuff! More please.” –

 

“Very imaginative.”

 

“Crazy…but great.”

 

“Weird…imaginative…great.” – Louise

 

“Great!”

 

“Boring.”

 

“Really good."

 

“It was so funny coz I thought the sign said ‘lower gravity’ so I went in the room and started jumping around!”

 

“It was funny ☺”

 

“Very good and very scary and bad.”

 

“Very clever at English.”

 

“Outstanding video & illustrations.”

 

“Awe-inspiring” – Tina

 

“Very scary.” – Bob

 

“It was scary. I hate it.”

 

“Very good.” – Chloe

 

“Very good.” – Bethany

 

“Very well.” – Jessica

 

“Weird! Bizarre! Strangely enjoyable!” – Margaret

 

“OK ☺” – Fred

 

“Okay x” – Jazz, Charlotte, Hayley, Nicky and Nan

 

“Awesome!” – Cordie

 

“Watch out for the chainsaw!”

 

“Rubbish ☹” – Jamie

 

“A good day here.” – Alyssa

 

“Very good so far.” – Shauna

 

“It was brill!” – Shauna

 

“We come from the Basque Country and we liked it so much.”

 

“It was brill.”

 

“Awesome” – Jamie

 

“I loved it.” – Isobel

 

“It was fantastic.”

 

“I had a nice day.” – Chloe

 

“Great fun, very artistic and lots of fun. Would come here again!!!!” – Emily

 

“Amazing.”

 

“I thought it was good.”

 

“Interesting.” – Holly Vaughn

 

“Great. This place is lovely.” – Toby

 

“Fun.” – Jake

 

“Funny & weird but very interesting.”

 

“It is BORING. Need to change.” – Louise

 

“Weird. Boring, plz change.” –

 

“Boring, don’t understand it.” – Sophie

 

“What was it about?” – Chloe

 

“Wonderfully presented.” – Sean

 

“Bored.” – Chelsea

 

“Yawn.com. Extraordinarily yawnsome.” – Joe Bloggs

 

“Weird.” – Kai

 

“Very interactive, fun and interesting.” – Maria

 

“Quite thrilling really, not bad.” – Loki Laufeyson

 

“Very good.”

 

“A bit scary for young children. A bit confusing as well.” – Ruth Belle

 

“Amazing.” – Helen

 

“Fab.” – Nic, Willow, Andy & Norah

 

“Boing boing brill.” – Jim

 

“Funny.” – Abbie

 

“Attractive.” – Caitlin

 

“I loved it.” – Taylor

 

“I loved it.” – Chlosie

 

“Awesome.” – Lewis

 

“Funny.” – Connor and Beth

 

“Very good.” – Shanon

 

“Very good.” – Jack

 

“Sorry, missed it!”

 

“Good.” – Charmaine

 

“Kewl.” – Jess

 

“Very inventive and creative, entertaining and brilliant.” – Sam

 

“AMAZING! Really imaginary! Cool!”

 

“Espetacular.” – Domingo

 

“Fun.” – Joss

 

“Sick.”

 

“Good.” – Scott

 

“Very nice and interested.” – Daria

 

“Very good.” – Chlosie

 

“Brilliant!!” – Jessica

 

“Well done. Pity not many appreciate it.”

 

“Great ☺”

 

“Very interesting! ☺”

 

“Good but I hope they don’t leave it on too long!!”

 

“First time in. Like it and hope it takes off.

 

“Needs more on ramp.”

 

“Wow!” – Jeorgia

 

“Wowza!” – Amy

 

“<3”

 

“Awesome” – Dora

 

“Really fascinating.” – Jaye

 

“Clever.” – Helen S, Lucy B

 

“Don’t get it.”

 

“Love it, don’t change.” – Elizabeth

 

“Can we fix it? Yes we CAN!” – Bob the builder

 

“So rad.”

 

“It was ok but a bit boring.” – Chloe

 

“Had fun xx” – Summer

 

“Ok.” – Eleanor

 

“The Public is AMAZING in he dark room!” – Sophey, Megan and Ripon.

 

“It was alright, need better music!” – Amber

 

Comments on Will Alsop, Full Volume

 

 

A charming experience thank you – Toni B^& TJR

 

I like it. Lots of work has gone in 2 that

 

Very Good Work here!! – Jeck

 

Really Pleasant visit for all the family -Kev,Nige,JJ & Lucas

 

Good Fun! – The Hopkins

 

Inttresting. – DY1

 

Reminded me of Hong Kong – Turer

 

Weird but interesting – C. Vowe Wednsbury

 

And the point is? - 2 viewers from Tipton

 

Awesome – Tyler Bannister WVII

 

It’s like being underwater – Min

 

I love it somewhere wish their where more of these- Lukhy

 

“I dunno” – Beesy

 

Thought puottoking – David

 

Interesting.. – Anaiis

 

Awesome ☺ - Amberly

 

Backy don’t like jelly fish _ Emily

 

I really like it’s interactive  nature mines the jellyfish!!! – Becky

 

Would  enjoy it better if I was well – Michelle

 

Love it, great feeling as I whelmed throught !-

 

WOW !!!! – SP9

 

Fantastic!! - B17

 

Wow ! RAR! – Bhovlia

 

Wonderful _ love it and free!! – Pat

 

Fantastic and wonderful WOW ☺ - Osobel DY11

 

Epic ☺ - William DY11

 

Little Variety – M.F.

 

WOW –

 

Okay – Gemma

 

WOW It is good- Molly

 

Je to na pici – Korot

 

Amazin! - S.Show B68

 

Different – Lolita B70 Very Intersting

 

Very Intersting indeed-  Joshua

 

Fascinatio what cardboard paints imagination can do – B26

 

Yoo ! Just took pictures of myself ;)

 

Awesome – Tayla

 

Brill –Susann

 

Good Are we in space? - Dillow

 

Very good – Josh

 

Nice - Dilan

 

Bad – 12 Camaron

 

It’s good – Sarah

 

Really good I love how they all hang and it is cool – Terri

 

I love the stuff they are really  sate and they make it better every day!! Pretty – Morgan

 

I love all of the floor tiles. – I LOVE Tate

 

Young money cash money billionsire – YMCMB young money

 

Nice . I cn see all the animal +shaks + an upside man – Luca 4

 

This is lovely and very enjoyable – Sarab age 8

 

I really love this area ! 20-10! – Abigail

 

Exellent ? Steph and John

 

Very good indeed – Amy 1

 

Intriguing – Shesa 30+

 

Sorry! Waste of money not even good contemporary art why not ask some real work. Good revenuee word bring people into the Public e West Brom???? - Janet

 

 

It ‘s enjoyable Place . We love it. – Molisin & Junaid

 

Awesome!!!! – Martyna & Anita

 

Very impressed lots to see

 

Very good ☺ - Rhea B69

 

Love this place - Gurshoran WV14

 

Keep up the good works

 

Harry Paiky pay look and like it

 

Look and like it

 

Happy St Patrick day

 

Very good

 

Scary place – Ethan

 

Excellent  - Niam WS5

 

I’m speechless it’s epic – Evan

 

Amazing ! It is epic ☺ - James

 

Very creative! ☺ - Shirley

 

Cool – Chantel

 

Wicked ☺ - Adam

Could do with more art for different ages – H Wilson

 

Really good ! – Jayne  B42

 

 Creative – C Barrett

 

Trippy , feels all beat like he draiser – Amit  B71

 

I love it really creative ! I like the flashes too! – Ria  B70

 

I love it weird yet creative - Kind B31

 

I love it! I feel like underwater with weird sea creature – Poppy

 

Beautifull - B31

 

I love it, it s beauty  nice  beautufull creation good luck – Mukesh

 

It’s funny and creative – Chelsea

 

Really cool and creative – Daniel

 

Ditto different – Gais

 

Dehnm –Anrew

 

Was really good – Anil

 

Remanded me of paper painting I had seen in a book by Artist Read lover – Ben

 

OK(Thumb UP)-May

 

Bit boring vary colourful and tranquil – Tasha Georgia & Nat

 

Boring but colourful and different – Chloe

 

Colourful and gob smaking ☺ WOW – Izzy

 

Amazing colourful and really cool – WOW

 

We felt just like we were under the sea ☺ - Poppy & Josh

 

I liked the man XX – Samuel

 

I liked the hanging man and all the sound and the rest, wow – xixaneen

 

I liked all the colours, it was very different ☺ - Taylor and Ella

 

Ok! Could do with some effects aways room for improvement – Rachel

 

Love it – Maximilian + Louise

 

Strange but amazing – Callang

 

Very Good! – Medelne, Walsall

 

Very good – Chloe

 

Comments on the Ramp and during Ordinary Extra Ordinary exhibition Summer 2013

 

 

Very good if you can find a proper use of this building

 

Amazing

 

Fantastic

 

Superb

 

interestng, active

 

Fantastico

 

Brilliant

 

Awesome

 

Love this place

 

Good

 

Brill

 

Great lots to learn

 

Excellent

 

It is such a shame it will be closing

 

came with my young children who loved being able to interact with exhibits, until top floor & told off for touching.

 

How are kids understand its ok to touch some but not others?

 

Suggest things not be touched are kept out of reach

 

Loved it

 

Lovely

 

Very interesting would have liked to have seen more of sandwell

 

Amazing

 

Thought inspiring

 

Love this place

awesome don’t close

 

Great place for family

 

love it

 

Awesome

 

Ok dont want the public to close down

Dont close down

Dont close it down

 

Lots of fun but please what are you going to turn it into?

 

Epic

 

Fab

 

Great place kids love it

 

council should be ashamed of getting rid of a great building

 

Children enjoy it very welcoming keep it now its built

 

Very good just what west bromwich needs.

 

 Keep it money well spent

 

Amazing keep it money well spent

 

Our litle man loves it & we do too well done

 

Please dont close the public its fab

 

this is no good, I cant believe there is objects like a penis. I had to take my kids home disgusting

 

Nephew and sister enjoyed it thanks for a wonderful day out

 

Really good here dont close it

 

So impressed although some stuff doesnt work

 

First time ive been here really enjoyed it

 

Nice

 

Ok

 

Wow the artwork is amazing I love it

 

Great how they close it

 

Keep it open

 

Very good

 

Very impressive

 

Lovely

 

Cool

 

Awesome experience

 

Cool

 

Cool

 

Excellent

 

Not good

 

Brill

 

Brilliant

 

Very very good

 

I love it

 

Great

 

It is very good

 

Its really gorgeous

 

Brill

 

OMG EPIC

 

Load of rubbish

 

Very interesting

 

Very good

 

Slide to go down

 

Cool! Would wear the tie one

 

Really

 Good

 

Brilliant exhibits

 

Fabulous very good

 

Brilliant

 

Really good best thing

in the gallery

 

Amazing

 

Looks beautiful and smart

 

Very good

 

Fantabulous fun

 

amazing experience

 

historical refreshing

 

great

 

More fun things

 

Good

 

Fab

 

Very interesting

 

Somewhere to come if there is nothing to do

 

Interesting

 

Amazing

 

Its dope

 

Very good loved the fake stuff

 

Amazing and eye catching

 

Really interesting

 

enjoyed it

 

Good

 

what an amazing place.children loved exploring the art,lights and sounds fantastic.and a beautiful building too.tax payers money well spent on community,

 

friendshipa art and beauty

 

Council you are mad to close this palace we love it

 

Fab

 

Amazing and really creative

 

Fantastic

 

Great space so wish the public stays open to the public

 

Great

 

Super

 

Super

 

Interesting but rather strange

 

Very very strange freaky

 

It is crazy that you are closing please don’t

 

Great

 

 

 

In loving memory of The Public