Art Reviews

Last Friday morning, the Beginning Creative Writing group started to think about how we might review an art exhibition. We talked about the Hans-Peter Feldmann exhibition (which we have been looking at in the Arnolfini art gallery) and began to ask ourselves what we really thought about it. We all had our own opinions about the artwork. Some of us liked it all, some didn't like any of it, and others thought about why some pieces of artwork in the exhibition were better than others.

We found that it could be quite tricky to decide what we thought of a piece of art so we began to think about what it would be like if we saw the exhibition through someone else's eyes. So we did a little experiment. We each began to imagine a new character for ourselves. We pretended that instead of Art + Power creative writers we were a farmer, a maths teacher, an elderly couple, a young female writer and an alien. We looked at Hans-Peter Feldmann's exhibition again and pretended that we were these people to see if we saw things differently. We talked about our experiences and began to see that different people have different experiences when they go to an art gallery. We don't all see art in the same way and sometimes it can be fun to pretend to be someone else.