|
|
 |
| |
|
|
 |
- Walk around and observe ARTEXPRESS critically. How has the viewing experience been constructed for the audience? What information is available for the viewer? What other elements within the exhibition affect your experience in the within it and the impact of the artworks? List and explain.
- How does ARTEXPRESS compare to other art exhibitions you have been to, including exhibitions held at your school or of artworks created by school-aged students? What is your overall impression of viewing student artworks in the 'professional' gallery context of the Art Gallery of New South Wales? With this in mind, why do you think ARTEXPRESS is so significant? What other venues is ARTEXPRESS shown at this year? Consider how might these varied viewing contexts alter the impression of HSC artworks?
- What do you think the overall intention of ARTEXPRESS as an exhibition is? What key criteria do you think this particular exhibition might need to meet to be successful? List the range of audiences you think ARTEXPRESS may attract. Do your key criteria need to vary with respect to these differing audiences? Discuss why.
- How many of each type of expressive forms are shown in this exhibition? Why do you think this is so? What particular requirements do each of these expressive forms need for exhibition installation? Consider practical limits and constraints of a gallery space. How might this impact the selection, design and hang of such an exhibition as compared to other exhibitions you have seen?
- Watch how the audience interacts with the exhibition. Consider the ways they walk between the works, where they stop and how they view each work. Which works are attracting the most attention? Why do you think this is so? Suggest the strategies the artists have adopted to achieve this? Other than simply 'looking', in what other ways are viewers engaging, learning about and absorbing the artworks? Explain.
- Select two works (each in a different media) within the exhibition which appeals to you. Write a detailed description and analysis of each artist's practice outlining the conceptual and material characteristics of each work. How has each artist manipulated and pushed the boundaries of their chosen media? What aspects make each work powerful, clever or witty? Outline.
- Select one artwork in the exhibition that shows an emphasis on emotion and memory through the use of materials and its subject matter. Write a subjective response to this work describing the feelings it evokes in you and the particular elements within the work that provoke this response.
- How have aspects from our contemporary world been reflected in the works on display in ARTEXPRESS? Select three works which represent a variety of influences through their subject matter, theme, visual references, or selection and manipulation of materials. Write a comparative analysis of these chosen works.
- Select two or more works which explore a similar theme or concept created in different expressive forms. Investigate how each student has manipulated their materials in particular ways to explore and communicate similar meaning in their work.
- Imagine you are the curator of ARTEXPRESS. How might you select, design and install the exhibition? What might you do differently to the current? Decide on your exhibition space - traditional or contemporary, similar to one of the many ARTEXPRESS venues or totally different, consider the number, and type of works and what links them together and finally the exhibition design and layout as a cohesive experience. Sketch an exhibition floor plan with an outline of the exhibition's key features. Present your proposal to the class.
- Review the current ARTEXPRESS. In your review introduce the exhibition as a whole; outline its highlights and your personal experience of the exhibition, along with that of the general audience your observed. Read exhibition reviews by art critics on other exhibitions and/or on ARTEXPRESS and compare your critical responses with theirs and your class mates. Post or email your review to the exhibition's venue sharing your critical opinion. Some may be posted on the InsideARTEXPRESS website.
- After viewing the current ARTEXPRESS, walk into another exhibition space currently showing professional artist's work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. How does the experience, installation, content and/or theme of this other exhibition compare to ARTEXPRESS? Are there significant differences in the installation of the student works and the works in the other exhibition? Explain.
- Do you think it is important that students' artworks are hung in a major public gallery such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales? Write an argument or conduct a class debate for or against this, clearly outlining your reasoning and points of view. The roles of curator, critic, professional artist, student, parent or school principal could be taken on to further the discussion and vary the points of view of agents of the artworld.
|
|
|
|
