This week, the Young Curators met Kate Harding, Artistic Director for Harlow Art Trust. Kate welcomed us to the Gibberd Gallery and talked us through the current exhibition, STAIR02: Paloma Proudfoot | Metropolitan Wares.
We then did some activities around developing the skills to talk about art. Here’s one of the reasons this is so important, in the words of Alumna Jemma:
‘Before my time here I really struggled to talk about my artwork and this shied me away from ever speaking of it. Since going on this journey I have gained confidence in myself and the ability to talk about my work.’ – Jemma
One of the tasks was an exercise in teams, each team taking a single piece from the collection to look at really closely and write down everything they could think of to say about it. We always use the same pieces for this task, and I love the way the participants always manage to say something I’ve never heard before!
Finally, we started work on exhibition reviews- watch this space.
