Guided Tour of Locws Projects 2010/2
It was very impressive that 35 pupils from Cefn Hengoed Comprehensive School turned up voluntary today to experience the Locws Schools project.
Becky and Lydia quoted that “art is a way of capturing life and that life was a way of capturing Art.”
When viewing Rebecca Spooner’s work, Lydia thought that it looked like a clip from a Horror Film. The Ceri Richards paintings gave connotations of birds attacking, contrasting with Rebecca’s film by the fountain, which gave her impressions of bird feeders. She said, “feed the birds tuppence a bag” – scary.
Danni instantly reacted to the projections by throwing them onto her notebook.
Stacey followed suit, by seeing what they would look like reflecting off the sling on her broken arm – it was impressive and she said, “I’m quite proud of doing that”.
Laura instantly saw a connection with Tine Bech’s work as a star with the river reflecting the sky.
“Art is the world’s mirror. We all reflect off it but everyone sees something different”, said Lydia and Becky.
Georgia wanted to recreate a contemporary moon and Stacey would like to see it made from lily pads.
Simon Whitehead’s ‘Walking Between Craters’ threw up a lot of interest as their school has a lot of closed off areas due to degradation and memories could be recorded as the school is soon to be demolished.
Katie already knew of an aerial photograph which is currently in the school which she wanted to transform into a map accompanied by a documentary CD.
‘That was a shock, I was expecting to see something else through there’, said Shannon, regarding Jackie Chatter’s installation.
‘I didn’t realise there were so many different types of art’, said Ashley.
It was very obvious that the works were inspiring to all in different ways and we also had the added luxury of viewing a portion of John Cale’s installation ‘Dark Days’, which was on show at the National Waterfront Museum during our lunch break.
David Marchant 2010
