Guided Tour of Art Across The City 2012
We were really lucky with the weather today as the sun shone and we were able to walk around and discuss the artworks at our leisure and the children made some great drawings in their sketchbooks relating of the Artworks.
Again Fiona Curran’s work was related to as broken bridge, two boats, or a rainbow. Lavinia questioned what David Blandy’s work had to do with art, as most of the children were only keen on a the game of Guitar Hero which was instantly recognised. I explained the piece and said, “Being a collaborative project, the process will be very relevant for group work in the school”.
Jock Mooney’s work was well received and a lot of the children giggled at the bikini image. The children wanted to make a kebab sculpture using elements from their school, i.e. a pencil instead of a skewer.
Unfortunately the tour didn’t walk up to the High Street to view Rik Bennett and Sean Puleston’s work but I explained that I would show a power point of these when visiting school.
Kaitlin thought that one of the Cowin Lush Neon looked like a person tangled up and Lilly said, “are her eyes on fire?” referring to another. The Children thought that it would be a good idea to draw each other in this way.
Chloe asked if the Tatham & O’Sullivan works were bomb shelters and William asked if they were for sun protection. They liked the faces drawn onto the shelters and again enjoyed playing in them.
Dave Marchant 2012
