Back in November, myself and Andrew Park of Cognitive Media were asked by Kent County Council to illustrate the shortlisted proposals for the Kent Cultural Baton, defined by the council arts team as follows:
“The Kent Cultural Baton will be a unique, commissioned artwork that will tour Kent in the period up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to promote Kent’s cultural offer [...]
I’ve been working with Dr Duncan Rowland at the Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham on his paper for the upcoming alt.chi 2010 (that’s the experimental offshoot of CHI 2010 in Atlanta, the world’s leading human computer interaction conference). Duncan’s work is very wide and varied, bringing together aspects of psychology, computer science, and, in [...]
The new, updated kids’ activities on the Portraits and Portraiture site we produced for the Museum Network finally launched recently. A heady mix of hand-drawn stuff by me, slick Flash work by Hugh Williams of DUNK and a range of amazing portraits by Rembrandt, Hals and Velázquez, to name but three, make this a winning formula [...]
I was recently asked to help the Interpretation and Information teams at Tate Britain present a persuasive case for a greatly enhanced information and interpretation provision for visitors. This ‘mindmap,’ if that’s the right term for it, aims to illustrate the many ways in which a visitor might engage with an artwork. Using a Henry [...]
Much of the past few weeks have been spent preparing to become a Creative Practitioner in schools, as part of the Creative Partnerships Programme run here in Kent by Future Creative. Apart from having completely exhausted the words ‘creative’ and ‘creativity,’ it’s been a really interesting and worthwhile experience so far, as much for the opportunity [...]
Since the New Year myself, Hugh ‘DUNK‘ Williams and Chris Wilson have been working on a re-vamped version of the Portraits and Portraiture children’s activities we originally produced back in 2005. Not quite finished yet, but we’re really happy with the way it’s looking. We’ve had to find a balance between a cartoony look and the fine [...]
My visit to MUDAM in Luxembourg was really fantastic… a special thanks to Annick and Valérie for making me so welcome. Here are the results of my stay, two sprawling maps of MUDAM’s relationships, connections, location and activities. Obviously I couldn’t get everything in, but I hope it gives a sense of the vibrant, imaginative and [...]
This is old news really I suppose, but I just happened to notice it’s exactly a year since I was involved in the planning and design of The Great Tate Mod Blog, an online repository of visuals, ideas and discussions which has, in theory at least, been feeding directly into the considerations and deliberations of [...]
Had a good day last Thursday at Tate Britain, chipping in with my take on gallery interpretation for the Visual Dialogues Young People’s Programme. Eventually, the participants (A and AS level students from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield and Newcastle) will be developing their own forms of interpretation for the gallery. But as a way of showing [...]
I’ll be working with my friends at the very exciting new Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg – or MUDAM for short – in November. I’ve been asked make a creative contribution to their Sponsor’s Night.
I’m pleased to say I’ll be contributing to this year’s Visual Dialogues programme at Tate Britain. Run annually in partnership with regional collections, Visual Dialogues allows and encourages young people aged between 15-18 to make dynamic interventions into gallery spaces, creating imaginative tools for interpretation and audience engagement. For 2008’s project, Tate Britain is working in [...]
Well, the end of last week saw a great couple of days at Tate Modern working on Audiotours to iPhones, a workshop and conference for the museums and galleries community. Thursday’s session was a very productive workshop involving around 25 people working at the busy and fast-changing intersection of museum interpretation and mobile technologies.
I was [...]
I’ll be participating in the symposium ‘From Audiotours to iPhones‘ at Tate Modern on 4th and 5th September.
Two weeks ago I was in Venice at the Communicating the Museum conference, organised by Agenda, providing a visual synthesis of the keynote presentations and meeting lots of interesting people from the worlds of branding, advertising and museums. Drawing pictures in 34°C heat in front of a couple of hundred people and surrounded by Tintoretto masterpieces made it [...]
Archive Adventures, a ground-breaking online resource for schools which I’ve been working on with DUNK for the Whitechapel Gallery, was launched at Westminster recently by Minister of State for Culture, Tourism and the Creative Industries, Margaret Hodge.
The website, which has been used in conjunction with a series of workshops in East London schools, opens up [...]
Well, a memorable first weekend for the Triennial is almost over, and it’s been very pleasing indeed to see so many people listening to the audio guide on their iPods or borrowing an mp3 payer from the Visitors’ Centre. Feedback so far has been great. Here’s a couple of tracks from the guide to give [...]
With the opening of the Folkestone Triennial now just a week away, I’m happy to report the completion of both an illustrated Young People’s Guide and Audio Guide, written and produced by me! These form two parts of an interpretation hat-trick for the Triennial, with an online Photo Map also on the way later this [...]
I will be producing a Young People’s Guide and an Audio Guide for this summer’s inaugural Folkestone Triennial. Sculpture, sound-work, photography, film and performance pieces by 23 internationally renowned artists will be experienced across the seaside town the Giant Thumb calls home from June 14th.
Curator Andrea Schlieker says: “It’s a tribute to Folkestone’s truly inspirational [...]
I’ll be appearing at the Communicating the Museum conference in Venice this June in the role of Graphic Facilitator.