Lace and a metal man

 Today a friend and I went to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to see LOST IN LACE......a contemporary look at lace...it was very interesting and certainly not lace as you normally think of it.

 

 This was made from metal.............and look....a skull!!

 A beautiful wire and bead chandelier- like piece........

 here are two pieces......the one in the distance is made with punch cards and wire................

 .................. the nearer one looks like punched paper.......all these were lovely but.....

  MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE PIECE WAS THIS..................WOW, WOW AND WOW!

 its hard to see the scale of this.....it was set into the corner of the room and the dresses were hanging free and were more than life sized.....

 the black lines are lengths of black wool representing the lace aspect..................

 it had something of a creepy, slightly spooky feel to it but I LOVED IT!

 Then outside of the museum was this................I was thinking 

"it looks a bit like the Angel of the North".......

 and lo and behold when I went to look it is called "Iron Man" by Anthony Gormley!