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Daniel James Community School
Guided tour
The pupils approached the
artworks with open, inquisitive minds and with very interesting responses.
Alongside the beauty of St Mary’s church, Rhona Byrnes’
projection posed a good starting point, which Niall commented on,
“the work visually shows you aspects of Swansea you weren’t
aware of”.
Torsten Lauschmann’s, Piecework orchestra, opened up the subject
of -What is art? Jessica saying, “all the art I knew about was
drawing and painting”. She was inspired by Torsten’s work
calling it “funky”, with Shane replying, “art is
everywhere”.
Sara Rees’ Kairos was very well received, with a large cohort
of pupils believing the work showed a comparison between classes.
Niamh McCann’s sculptural mural was viewed and generated varied
opinions, some were on a political level, comparing capitalism with
communism and with the ospreys representing freedom – (Nicky.)
The graffiti being left exposed on the side of the work posing the
question of identity.
The pupils responded well to the work of Milena at Swansea museum
using political words such as “propaganda” and “one
sided interpretation” when discussing the work We still do not
know where will be the last cemetery.
We ended our tour with Rebecca Gould’s work in the Norwegian
Church. Which seemed to challenge their conception of what the work
was trying to say, and even after an explanation, the group were still
questioning this piece of art.
The tour was very inspiring for the pupils and generated some strong
ideas to work with back at their school environment.
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