Guided Tour of Art Across The City 2012
Today was the turn of Clwyd Primary pupils and this was a real fun tour. We began at St Mary’s and looked at the work of Fiona Curren. Morgan asked, “Is it a tree house for pigeons?” which was a very unique comment about this art piece.
The children created some great drawings as the toured the work and enjoyed the vibrancy and colour of the exhibition. Alisha really liked David Blandy’s work ‘The Devil meets Dylan Thomas’ and thought that the graphics used were brilliant. When we arrived at Castle Gardens I was pleasantly surprised about how many children recognised the Icons used in Jock Mooney’s piece’ ‘Swansea Kebab’. Karrie-Anne was an expert and helped her friend Natasha guess the 5 Icons with some gentle prompting.
Our third stop was Wind Street and Karrie-Anne asked if David Marchant’s Neon’s were mixed up faces and Alisha said, “They look like jumbled up body parts”. They were all happy with the explanation of the pieces and though that the way of creating them was a fun thing to do.
Finally, when looking at Tatham and Sullivan’s ‘Shelters’, Kayne instantly looked out of the opening and said, “I’ll have a turkey burger please.”
I think that this class is going to be a lot of fun to work with.
Dave Marchant, 2012
